Embattled Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax compared himself to Jim Crow-era lynching victims in a surprise speech Sunday, as he resists widespread calls to resign due to allegations of sexual assault.
Read moreBeto O’Rourke said Tuesday that he hasn’t ruled out being a 2020 vice presidential candidate — even as he plans to decide in the next 10 days if he’ll seek the presidency.
Read moreWhen President Trump visited Beto O’Rourke’s hometown to argue that walling off the southern border makes the U.S. safer, the former Democratic congressman and possible 2020 presidential hopeful was ready.
Read moreA House oversight subcommittee made initial forays Thursday into obtaining the tax returns of presidents and presidential candidates by reviewing legislation that would require such disclosure, spurring Republicans to push back against Democratic calls for transparency.
Read moreOne year into former Congresswoman Corrine Brown’s five-year federal prison sentence, an 11th Circuit panel heard arguments Friday over whether her conviction should be overturned based on the trial court’s dismissal of a juror who said God told him Brown was not guilty.
Read moreThe South Dakota Municipal League claims in court that Republican Speaker of the House Steven Haugaard banned its executive director, Yvonne Taylor, from the House floor after saying she made the Legislature look like “a bunch of buffoons” by writing in the league’s monthly magazine that members should vote for “legislators willing to study the issues and not those who prejudge issues through a narrow predetermined standard.”
Read moreA three-term Iowa state senator says he plans to challenge longtime Congressman Steve King in next year’s Republican primary.
Read moreDemocratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has made her Iowa debut with all the look of a presidential candidate, bringing her brand of liberalism to the nation’s premier caucus state.
Read morePersonal data and documents on hundreds of German politicians and others have been posted online, and the German government said authorities were examining Friday how the information was obtained.
Read moreDays away from joining the Senate’s Republican majority, Sen.-elect Mitt Romney broadly criticized President Donald Trump’s policies and character and argued that the president “has not risen to the mantle of the office.”
Read moreThe Georgia Republican who unsuccessfully campaigned for governor on a “deportation bus” touting his anti-immigrant stance turned himself into jail Wednesday after being indicted for insurance fraud; Michael Williams, a state senator, lost in his primary run for governor.
Read moreAn anti-graft tribunal sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to seven years in prison for corruption on Monday, drawing criticism from his party, which said the decision was a “black spot” on the justice system.
Read moreA Democrat who has been the longest-serving secretary of state in the nation was re-elected to another term in New Hampshire on Wednesday after a close race that drew scrutiny on his voter-rights record.
Read moreA split Ninth Circuit panel revived a challenge by a former candidate for the Assembly to a state law that forced his party preference on the ballot to be “None,” rather than “Socialist.”
Read moreContesting personal liability in a case where the Pennsylvania Supreme Court found that Republicans had gerrymandered state congressional districts, Senator Joe Scarnati urged the Third Circuit on Wednesday to let him off the hook on legal fees.
Read moreFBI agents raided the home and office of a Los Angeles City Council member Wednesday morning under the authority of a federal search warrant.
Read moreAnother day, another rash of suspicious packages found in the nation’s mail bound for a critic of President Donald Trump.
Read moreHaving taken nearly two weeks to marinate on the fraud committed by former New York assemblywoman Pamela Harris, a federal judge settled on a prison term Wednesday well short of the sentence sought by prosecutors.
Read moreThe final politician to be sentenced in a highly publicized crackdown on New York corruption, a former majority leader of the state Senate, was sentenced Wednesday to four years and three months in prison.
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