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The party needs to rein in its ambitions and realize that most voters want progress, not transformation.

Why Democrats are acting as though corporations are people

Redrawn congressional maps pit two Democratic incumbents against each other in the Atlanta suburbs.

Georgia's Stacey Abrams has benefitted from being unopposed in the state's Democratic primary for governor by using the period to spread her message while Republicans have fought.

South Fant will close for K3-K4 school students on June 2. The name dates back to 1870, the first public school for Black people in Anderson County.

The following is a transcript of an interview with Jason Furman, former chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, that aired Sunday, May 22, 2022, on "Face the Nation."

The following is a transcript of an interview with Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York that aired Sunday, May 22, 2022, on "Face the Nation."

The candidate for US Senate in Pennsylvania doesn’t offer a lot of details, but voters know where he stands.

Democrats became newly worried this month as favorable redistricting maps in Florida and New York were struck down and replaced with district lines that will likely make it even more difficult to keep their already slim majority in the House.

The new map still leaves in place the new 12th District in Manhattan, which will result in longtime Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney running against each other.

Tuesday’s primary is the first big test of new election legislation, which was opposed by voting rights groups and Democrats.

For some female incumbents running for reelection in Congress this year, holding their seats comes with a new challenge.

The Justice Department said the administration will appeal, but the ruling virtually ensures that restrictions will not end as planned on Monday.

Pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum on the southern border must continue, a judge ruled Friday.

Summer and election season tend to be unproductive.

Some Democrats claimed early that these were akin to "reconnaissance" tours. Here's where the Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) revelation fits.

A federal judge in Louisiana is refusing to end pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum on the southern border.

It would give the President authority to declare an energy emergency, making it unlawful...

The Wisconsin senator is taking out of context remarks from almost 10 years ago to make his case.

WASHINGTON — A political knife fight in the streets of Laredo. An ambitious challenger...

A trade organization that represents gas station owners alleges in a lawsuit that a requirement that businesses display signs advertising a freeze on the state’s gas tax violates their freedom of speech and is unconstitutional.

Democrats have accused Republicans of leading "reconnaissance tours" of people who breached the Capitol on January 6.

All Democrats and most Republicans rallied behind the latest, and possibly not last, U.S. financial salvo against Russia’s invasion.

A closely divided House has approved legislation to crack down on alleged price gouging by oil companies as prices at the pump continue to soar.

Five House Democrats are still fighting for relief on the $10,000 limit on the federal deduction for state and local taxes through the appropriations process.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill would cost about $105 million over five years, with most of the money going toward hiring staff.

This year’s Republican primary contests are likely to affect general election outcomes and even the fate of US democracy. That’s why they’re getting all the attention.

Seven-in-10 U.S. adults say they support some restrictions on abortions, and Americans are split on 15-week bans and whether abortion-inducing medication should be allowed to be mailed to homes.

The former Attorney General suggested he was opposed to Democratic maps in New York and Maryland, but his phrasing is passive and parsed.

The measure's sponsors say it would fill intel-sharing gaps among the Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.

The bill creates offices at DOJ, DHS, and the FBI to track domestic terror threats. GOP lawmakers argue it could allow federal officials to ensnare parents, a charge DOJ rejects.

The House has passed legislation that would devote more federal resources to preventing domestic terrorism in response to the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.

The US House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the nation’s Capitol is nearing a more public phase of its work. A series of eight prime-time televised hearings will begin on June 9. Afterward, the committee of seven Democrats and two Republicans will report its findings sometime before the midterm elections on Nov. 8. Former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies continue to call the probe a witch hunt focused on scoring political points.

North Carolina's GOP establishment exacted its revenge on the freshman congressman, who was backed by Donald Trump.

Heart surgeon-turned-TV celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick are locked in a too-early-to-call race for the Republican nomination to fill an open Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat.

After a day of balloting in five states, a another notable contest also remained uncalled: Rep. Kurt Schrader (D) was facing a spirited challenger from his left for the Democratic nomination in Oregon's 5th congressional district.

In their new account of the 2020 election, two New York Times reporters reveal just how broken American democracy has become.

The House is expected to take up the emergency spending measure later this week.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said indictments may be filed over a shortage of infant formula, during a news conference Tuesday

The House will hold hearings on the U.S. baby formula shortage after the closure of an Abbott Nutrition plant sent parents scrambling.

A South Suburban man was sentenced to just over three years in federal prison Tuesday for leaving a message for a U.S. representative threatening to shoot up “terrorist” Democrats at Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis admitted a toddler and a preschooler “directly related to the formula shortage," said Mark Corkins, a pediatric gastroenterologist there. These children have special dietary needs and their parents were unable to find appropriate formula for them, he said. Meanwhile, GOP lawmakers continued to hammer the White House publicly for failing to anticipate the shortage. With it, Democrats aim to advance their second measure injecting $28 million in new funds at the FDA. Still other Democrats said they would explore legislation targeting “authorities” at the FDA to monitor manufacturers for potential shortages before they occur.

Insider asked McConnell if he believes Democrats are seeking to change the electorate through immigration. He pivoted to talking about Title 42.

Printing mistakes will force local election officials in Pennsylvania and Oregon to redo thousands of mailed ballots, a laborious process that could delay results for some closely contested races in Tuesday’s primaries.

There is no nefarious plan among elites to subvert native-born (that is, White) Americans and there is no rapid replacement of Americans with immigrants.

Rochelle Garza sued the Trump administration in 2017, seeking access to an abortion for an undocumented teenager. Joe Jaworski, a former Galveston mayor and a trial attorney for over three decades, presents himself as the more experienced candidate.

“This is a case about privilege,” prosecutor tells a D.C. jury on the first day of testimony in MIchael Sussmann's trial for allegedly lying to the FBI.

A half-dozen mainstream Republican Senate candidates are drawing on the white “replacement" conspiracy theory to court voters this campaign season.

The funding bill follows an agreement between the FDA and Abbott on the steps the formula manufacturer must take to reopen its Michigan plant.

The latest results from the North Carolina primary ahead of the 2022 midterms.

The latest results from the Pennsylvania primary ahead of the 2022 midterms.

The latest results from the Oregon primary ahead of the 2022 midterms.

The latest results from the Idaho primary ahead of the 2022 midterms.

The latest results from the Kentucky primary ahead of the 2022 midterms.

Musk described himself as a moderate who is "neither Republican nor Democrat," and said his purchase of Twitter wouldn't be a "right-wing takeover."

The Arizona Senate on Monday opened an ethics investigation into a firebrand Republican member who tweeted inflammatory comments about last weekend's racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket that left 10 people dead. The referral of GOP Sen. Wendy Rogers of Flagstaff to the Ethics Committee was in lieu of the immediate expulsion that Democratic lawmakers were planning, GOP Majority Leader Rick Gray said.

U.S. authorities stopped migrants more than 234,000 times in April, one of the highest marks in decades as the Biden administration prepares to lift pandemic-era restrictions on claiming asylum.

The senators bucked their leaders -- including Mitch McConnell -- who traveled to Kyiv over the weekend to meet with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

As Rep. Elise Stefanik has already shown. Once again, the media is cast as the oppressive force.

The former president criticized Democrats, who control Congress and the White House, on a number of issues. He also praised Texas Republicans he’s endorsed in this month’s primary runoff.

Upcoming primary elections for state supreme court seats in North Carolina and Arkansas are putting the spotlight on how such races across the U.S. have grown in importance in recent years and led to high-dollar, partisan battles for control.

The nationwide shortage of baby formula is quickly becoming the GOP's latest election-year attack on President Joe Biden.

Growing discontent over homelessness and crime in Portland is driving interest in a pair of congressional primaries.

A federal judge in Louisiana is considering whether the Biden administration can end pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum.

California's minimum wage will increase to $15.50 per hour next year.

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul is defying leaders of both parties and has single-handedly delayed until next week Senate approval of an additional $40 billion to help Ukraine and its allies withstand Russia’s three-month old invasion.

The House has approved a resolution that will pave the way for letting congressional staff join a union and engage in collective bargaining.

The House has emphatically approved a fresh $40 billion Ukraine aid package that beefs up President Joe Biden’s initial request.

Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, one of the last anti-abortion rights Democrats on Capitol Hill, says he would support a bill to write the rights into federal law.

After fighting for decades over abortion policy, Congress is about to run into the political limits of its ability to act in either direction on the issue.

President Joe Biden is warning voters unhappy with soaring inflation and his stalled domestic agenda against turning power over to “ultra-MAGA” Republicans in the midterm elections.

Congressional Democrats are preparing a plan that would boost President Joe Biden’s requested $33 billion Ukraine aid package to nearly $40 billion.

State leaders say expanding a social safety net for children and prosecuting abortion funders are among their priorities. “We’ll continue to do our best to make abortion not just outlawed, but unthinkable,” said state Rep. Briscoe Cain.

Krueger, a conservative Texas Democrat, was a politician and U.S. diplomat to two African countries.

Democrats are hopeful that the looming threat of such a stunning political sea change could provide the strongest opportunity yet to energize their voters heading into an election year in which Republicans have been expected to dominate in Texas and beyond.

California is preparing for a world without federal abortion protections.

A $100 million fund to settle sexual and physical abuse claims at New Hampshire’s state-run youth detention center is headed to the governor’s desk.

The Senate is gearing up for a vote on legislation that would codify abortion rights into federal law.

The Supreme Court’s apparent intention to abolish a nationwide right to abortion, spelled out in a draft opinion leaked this week, will not be the final chapter in the nation’s most pitched culture battle.

For decades, Democrats have tried to motivate their voters by warning of the conservative fight to outlaw abortion.

Furious Senate Democrats are vowing to vote on legislation to protect abortion access for millions of Americans.

The bombshell leak of a draft opinion suggesting the Supreme Court is poised to overturn the landmark Roe v.

A Los Angeles protest over the leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that would throw out Roe v.

President Joe Biden had lunch Monday with former President Bill Clinton, as Democrats are facing long odds to retain their congressional majorities in November’s midterm elections.

President Joe Biden needs to make a decision about cancelling student debt.

Add one more group of contests to the white-hot races for Congress and governor that will dominate this year’s midterm elections: secretaries of state.

A New York judge has ordered the state's congressional and state Senate primaries to be delayed until Aug. 23 to provide enough time to replace maps that were ruled unconstitutional this week.

The Grand Prairie lawmaker has led the minority party’s House caucus since 2017.

The Democratic National Committee has decided to allow new states to bid for the coveted status, which has long belonged to places like Iowa and New Hampshire, in an effort to kick off the nominating process in states that better reflect the diversity of the broader electorate.

The Florida Senate has passed a bill to repeal a law allowing Walt Disney World to operate a private government over its properties in the state.

The winner of the special election will replace former U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville, who resigned last month to work for Akin Gump.

Maryland lawmakers have overridden GOP Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of a measure to expand access to abortion in the state.

The contest to replace former Republican Rep. Devin Nunes in California will present voters with a sharply defined choice: the candidates are a progressive Democrat who supports universal health care and a former Trump administration appointee.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has vetoed a measure that would expand access to abortion in the state.

Mike Gibbons, a leading Republican Senate candidate from Ohio, said at a media event last fall that middle-class Americans don’t pay “any kind of a fair share” of income taxes.

Lawmakers erupted in cheers after Vice President Kamala Harris announced the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

Democrats in Congress are sounding the alarm over what they claim is mounting evidence that Mexico’s chief prosecutor is assailing the nation’s independent judiciary and selectively targeting for prosecution opponents of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

House Democrats are accusing oil companies of “ripping off the American people” and putting profits before production as Americans suffer from higher gasoline prices amid the war in Ukraine.

Former President Barack Obama has returned to the White House — for a few hours, to celebrate the 12th anniversary of his signature health care law.