Kansas City-area businessman Greg Orman’s name will appear on the Nov. 6 ballot as an independent candidate for Kansas governor, presenting a new obstacle to Democratic efforts to defeat conservative Kris Kobach in November.
Democratic candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez banned press from an event with voters in her New York district this week.
Democrats saw a surge in voter turnout in primaries in flyover country this month, leaving party leaders salivating over a potential enthusiasm gap they hope will deliver control of Congress and several major governorships in November.
Senate Democrats said Thursday they’re preparing to sue the National Archives to force it to release papers from Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s background.
The Senate confirmed two more appeals court judges Thursday, continuing to make progress on President Trump’s goal of revamping the federal judiciary after a maverick Republican dropped his blockade.
William McRaven, the retired admiral who oversaw the Osama bin Laden raid, made the unusual move Thursday of calling on President Trump to revoke his security clearance.
The Defense Department says the Veterans Day military parade ordered up by President Donald Trump won’t happen in 2018. Col. Rob Manning, a Pentagon spokesman, said Thursday that the military and the White House “have now agreed to explore opportunities in 2019.”
The national Democratic Socialists of America on Thursday endorsed a new U.S. Senate candidate in Maine and a dozen others seeking office at state and local levels across the country, seeking to capitalize on record levels of attention.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Thursday that environmental groups have increased wildfire danger with litigation that has “held hostage” the ability of federal managers to thin the overgrown national forests.
A New York state senator who said he was reported to police for campaigning in his own district wants to make calls to the police on law-abiding black people a hate crime.
An Oklahoma City woman who helped usher in the civil rights movement says spending weekends protesting made for an unusual childhood but taught valuable lessons.
A Thurston County judge has thrown out more than 300,000 signatures to put a gun-control initiative on the November ballot.
A federal grand jury in Northern California has indicted 12 men suspected of being members of the MS-13 gang on murder, extortion, arson, drug trafficking and racketeering charges.
The Iowa Association of School Boards will pay $20,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a lawyer and GOP activist who was fired after publicly praising Gov. Kim Reynolds.
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The owner of a Tennessee meatpacking plant where a federal immigration raid took more than 90 people into custody has agreed to plead guilty to employing unauthorized immigrants.
Boise State University has received approval to use eminent domain to acquire property where school officials want to build a baseball stadium.
A federal judge has extended a freeze on deporting families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, giving a reprieve to hundreds of children and their parents to remain in the United States.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is criticizing federal judges who've thwarted some of President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
Authorities have identified a man fatally shot by police in Creston this week, as well as the officer who shot him.
Sen. Richard Burr, who leads the Senate Selective Committee on Intelligence, issued a sharp rebuke of former CIA Director John Brennan, saying that if he has evidence of Russian collusion he should have presented it to his panel.
A prominent Moroccan feminist activist has been arrested for alleged public drinking and disturbance of order, in what her association called an attempt to quash its campaigning for abortion access and LGBT rights.
Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway said Friday that "it's kind of weird" that the president's critics are "so obsessed" with him.
President Trump declared Friday that he "already MADE America Great Again" as he mocked New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his "really dumb statement."
