Two suburban Cumberland County school districts have generated significant campaign activity, even as board races in most of ...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's "tax the rich" platform draws President Donald Trump's "communist" label as ...

Once hailed as “majority makers,” Democrats who won in 2018 have risen up the ranks and are aiming for a spot on the national ...

With three Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices up for retention, building trades unions encouraged people to vote "yes" to ensure continued Democratic control of the state's highest court.

In the typically sleepy Supreme Court retention election, the focus is on voting rights and abortion. But the court also ...

Former President Barack Obama is urging voters to use Tuesday's elections in Virginia and New Jersey to rebuke President ...

As the ever-insightful Charlie Cook recently noted, “In the four elections since Trump was first elected president, Republicans have lost 17 of the 21 Senate races” in the country ... as general ...

"We look like the Keystone Kops," grouses one GOP strategist. "The Americans are at a point where they want something done. And they can't choose when they don't see another option." But there's ...

The government shutdown is on the verge of becoming the longest in US history — and lawmakers still have no idea how much longer it will go.

- The William McKinley Monument is silhouetted in front of the west side of the Ohio Statehouse, April 15, 2024, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) An Ohio panel adopted new U.S. House ...

Ohio’s Republican-led redistricting commission unveiled a proposed U.S. House map Thursday that could give Republicans a chance at winning two more seats in next year’s midterm elections, bolstering ...

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