After a blitz of congressional redistricting ahead of the midterm elections, a national battle for partisan control is about to enter a new phase that could affect representation on everything from ta...

BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Graham Platner, the insurgent Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, defiantly declared Friday that voters would stand by him despite a steady drumbeat of reports abou...

Normally, I worry that events may overtake a column. But not so with the Iran war. I don’t worry about running afoul of a headline or Truth Social post from the president because what is said about th...

By MARY CLARE JALONICK AND JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies early Friday, after weeks...

To the Editor: Most of the mess about immigration was created by the Republicans and Trump. Immigration is complicated. Everyone knows it will be fixed only when Congress sits down and drafts new laws...

In 279 B.C., King Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated a Roman legion at the Battle of Asculum. But that conflict cost so many casualties that his forces were left weak and vulnerable, leading the monarch to la...

Can Graham Platner, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, survive his sexting scandal? The first thing to know is how little we know about it. We know from a Wall Street Journal account that Platn...

A no-holds-barred bout of partisan redistricting has been won by Republicans. Now it’s up to voters to decide whether it matters for control of Congress. Republicans could net about 10 additional U.S....

To the Editor: Everyone has heard the often quoted idiom “crazy like a fox.” Quite applicable to our President Donald J. Trump. Each day fewer and fewer Americans would label him as “stable.” “Crazy” ...

Reports about a U.S.Iran peace deal have been served up in recent days as a tasting menu. Instead, it increasingly seems like a palate cleanser. Donald Trump suggested a deal was impending. Iran said ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An upcoming celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, “The Great American State Fair,” recently had several musical guests back out partly over the event’s ties to President Donald...

SINGAPORE (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth assured Pacific allies on Saturday that Washington remained committed to the region, but toned down previous comments calling China a threat. Speak...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The end of California’s chaotic primary season for governor and Los Angeles mayor was approaching as leading candidates rushed to deliver their closing arguments days before ...

By JESSE BEDAYN and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press Graham Platner’s wife called reports that her husband had previously exchanged sexually explicit text messages with several women “shameful” over ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democratic leaders in a handful of southern states are lobbying for South Carolina to reprise its role as the party’s first-in-thenation state to cast primary ballots in 2028, ar...

There’s an ancient, almost surely apocryphal, story about a dog food company executive convening a big sales meeting. A very short version has the exec running through all of the company’s advantages:...

As the Watergate scandal was unraveling, President Richard Nixon declared, “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.” Nixon was correct: People have a ...

ELECTIONS DETERMINE WHO OCCUPIES an office. Leadership depends on something more fragile: the confidence of colleagues. Holding office and holding leadership are not the same thing. That distinction b...

Paul Rivera, a little- known former Clinton White House aide and senior adviser to the losing 2004 John Kerry presidential campaign, became famous recently as the author of the Democratic National Com...

PLANO, Texas (AP) — As it turned out, it would never be enough. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn tried for more than a year to show Donald Trump and Texas Republicans that he and the president were on the same t...