880 articles in the Politics & Elections category.
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — Less than six months before the 2026 midterms, the Supreme Court’s April 29 decision in Louisiana v. Callais — which sharply limited race-based considerations under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act — has triggered a wave of mid-decade map changes in Republican-led...
By Tommy Flynn
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton stripped every Democratic lawmaker of their committee and subcommittee assignments Tuesday as punishment for disruptive protests during the special session on congressional redistricting. In a letter dated May 12...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Donald Trump, his two eldest sons and the Trump Organization have begun discussions with the Internal Revenue Service aimed at resolving a $10 billion lawsuit filed over the unauthorized leak of the president’s confidential tax records to news...
By Tommy Flynn
ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp called the Georgia General Assembly into a special session starting June 17 to redraw the state’s congressional and legislative maps for the 2028 election cycle and resolve a looming deadline on voting equipment changes. The move follows the U.S....
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — The Office of the Director of National Intelligence flatly denied Wednesday night that the CIA raided Director Tulsi Gabbard’s office and seized boxes of classified documents related to the John F. Kennedy assassination and the CIA’s MK-Ultra mind-control program....
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — Newly obtained FBI documents reveal that agents working with Special Counsel Jack Smith deliberately closed their investigation into former President Donald Trump while preserving all evidence and materials until at least February 2030 — long after Trump’s second...
By Tommy Flynn
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi Republicans are pushing to approve the state’s 2022 congressional map during an upcoming special legislative session, a step that could dismantle the majority-Black 2nd District and cost longtime Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson his House seat....
By Tommy Flynn
NEW YORK — The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted President Donald Trump a temporary stay Tuesday on the $83.3 million defamation judgment awarded to E. Jean Carroll, pausing any payment requirement until the Supreme Court decides whether to take up his appeal or reject...
By Tommy Flynn
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously upheld the state’s 2025 Republican-drawn congressional map Tuesday, clearing it for use in the November 2026 elections. In two separate opinions, the court affirmed lower-court rulings that the “Missouri First Map”...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — Dr. Marty Makary, President Donald Trump’s Food and Drug Administration commissioner, resigned Tuesday after roughly 13 months leading the agency. A White House official confirmed the departure. President Trump, speaking to reporters before departing for China,...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors on Tuesday, positioning the former Fed official to succeed Jerome Powell as chairman once his nomination for the four-year chair term receives final approval. Lawmakers voted...
By Tommy Flynn
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Democrats are rejecting the state Supreme Court’s May 8 ruling that voided a voter-approved constitutional amendment on congressional redistricting and are advancing multiple strategies to overturn or sidestep it, including an emergency appeal to the...