WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court let Texas continue to impose age-verification requirements on porn sites, rejecting a challenge by an industry-led group that argued the law violates the constitutional rights of adults.

The order, which came without explanation or any public dissent, leaves in force a measure that has already forced one of...Read more

WASHINGTON — After a shooting in Charlotte killed four law enforcement officers and injured four of their colleagues, President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass tougher gun regulations.

“We must do more to protect our law enforcement officers,” Biden said in a statement that came late Monday night."

He first called for more funding...Read more

A three-judge federal court in Louisiana stopped the state on Tuesday from using its new congressional map with two Black opportunity districts for any election, setting up a potential last-minute Supreme Court fight ahead of this fall’s election.

The state passed a new congressional map into law in January under a court order, after years of...Read more

WASHINGTON — A three-judge federal court in Louisiana stopped the state on Tuesday from using its new congressional map with two Black opportunity districts for any election, setting up a potential last-minute Supreme Court fight ahead of this fall’s election.

The state passed a new congressional map into law in January under a court order,...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The more than 182,000 ballots in the Congressional District 16 race have been recounted and Assemblyman Evan Low is ahead of Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian by four votes — but the final results are still unknown as more than a dozen challenged ballots are still up in the air in San Mateo County.

On Tuesday, ...Read more

A new Emerson College/The Hill swing state poll shows President Joe Biden behind in seven battleground states that could prove as decisive in the next general election as they did in 2020.

According to the poll, Biden trails former President Donald Trump by three points or more in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania...Read more

DETROIT — Nearly all of the major U.S. Senate candidates in Michigan said Tuesday they would be willing to participate in three debates ahead of the fall general election organized by the new Michigan Debate Taskforce.

The first debate is planned for the Grand Rapids area on Sept. 12, the second in the Traverse City area on Oct. 10 and the ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — On Tuesday, the reality of Florida’s new six-week abortion ban hit the radar of pregnant women seeking care.

At a Planned Parenthood clinic in West Palm Beach, doctors scrambled to provide abortions for anyone pregnant beyond six weeks. Women crowded into a waiting room, returning for a pill or surgical procedure. ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Challenges submitted to Michigan election officials Tuesday argued that at least two prominent candidates for the U.S. House should be disqualified from having their names appear on the primary ballot.

A filing from Republicans targeted Democratic candidate Curtis Hertel of East Lansing, who's running in the battleground 7th ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Chip Roy laid out a game plan Tuesday for conservatives to go to war against “the radical left” if the GOP gains control of the White House and both chambers of Congress in the November elections.

The Texas Republican and House Freedom Caucus policy director said hard-liners will have to roll over fellow Republicans who ...Read more

North Carolina’s representatives on Tuesday led their colleagues in a moment of silence on the House floor following Monday night’s deadly shooting on law enforcement in Charlotte.

“Yesterday in a horrific act of violence, four law enforcement officers were killed in Charlotte,” said Rep. Jeff Jackson, a Democrat from Charlotte, on the ...Read more

People don’t seem to mind the idea of former President Donald Trump acting as a dictator, he told Time magazine in an interview that drew swift rebuke from the Biden-Harris campaign.

In a wide ranging interview given to the magazine — and shared by the 45th President Tuesday morning via his Truth Social media platform — Trump was asked to...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump was held in criminal contempt and hit with $9,000 in sanctions for repeated gag order violations — and warned he could wind up in jail — as his Manhattan hush money trial resumed Tuesday.

State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan reprimanded the ex-president after finding that nine out of 10 posts recently flagged ...Read more

President Joe Biden condemned Tuesday the student-led occupation of a Columbia University academic building, after protesters’ takeover of Hamilton Hall put the school on lockdown.

The latest escalation in the students’ demonstration against the war in Gaza also drew censure from Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams, who said they were in...Read more

NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump refused to answer key questions about abortion in a major new interview published Tuesday, including whether pregnant women should be monitored during pregnancies, if the abortion pill should be banned and how he will vote on Florida’s crucial abortion-rights referendum.

Seeking to walk a political ...Read more

President Joe Biden plans to return to North Carolina on Thursday, this time visiting the city where former President Donald Trump, his 2024 campaign rival, was forced to cancel an event earlier this month due to weather.

White House officials told McClatchy that Biden’s trip to Wilmington will highlight his Investing in America agenda and ...Read more

ATLANTA — A right-wing website that spread false claims of voting fraud against two Georgia election workers has filed for bankruptcy as it tries to fend off a defamation lawsuit.

The Gateway Pundit accused Fulton County election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss of counting “suitcases” of fraudulent ballots during the 2020 presidential...Read more

Florida will this week begin enforcement of a six-week abortion ban, the state’s strictest limits on the procedure in more than 50 years. The law penalizes doctors who perform abortions with sanctions that could include revocation of their medical license.

The ban covers abortions through medication, but abortion-by-mail providers say they ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump was held in criminal contempt for violating a gag order prohibiting him from commenting on participants in his hush-money case and fined $9,000 as his Manhattan trial entered its third week on Tuesday.

State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan made the decision moments after taking the bench and after telling Trump he�...Read more

BALTIMORE — The last time Bob Wallace ran for mayor, in 2020, Baltimore faced twin crises of a raging pandemic and a fiscal cliff.

Undaunted by the city’s solid-blue voting patterns, Wallace, until then a lifelong Republican, ran as an independent. Wallace, 67, is running this time as a Democrat. And with less than a month until the May 14 ...Read more