California governor backs away from 2028 speculation while taking first step to address why his party lost the White House: ...

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One of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s greatest political accomplishments is about to be wiped away by California voters. Why hasn’t ...

President Donald Trump has been blasted for attending a lavish Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago hours before ...

Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner, and his rivals, Andrew M. Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, are racing to turn out voters before Election Day on Tuesday. Polls are open Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The government shutdown continues to impact the aviation industry as air traffic controllers miss paychecks and Vice ...

When a democracy slides toward autocracy, the leader often finds ways to neuter the legislature, turning it into a body that ...

More than 5.5 million ballots have been returned so far in California’s special election to either approve or reject ...

I’ve always told my children never to hit people. But if somebody were to bully your child on the playground and assault them ...

Lindsey Graham once represented the best of the Republican Party and supported the Voting Rights Act. In the wake of Trump, ...

Elections in multiple states on Tuesday are set to gauge how voters feel in the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency — and whether Democrats have improved their standing with the midterm ...

A 34-year-old Muslim socialist is poised to become mayor of America’s biggest city. Can Zohran Mamdani fulfil his ambitious ...