GOP firebrand Randy Fine is bringing his heated rhetoric to the halls of Congress, after defeating Democrat Josh Weil in Tuesday’s special election for a Central Florida district.

But Weil’s closer-than-expected margin in an overwhelmingly Republican seat could buoy his party’s overall hopes for 2026.

The special election in ...Read more

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — For a few days, Democrats got to dream.

In two Florida congressional special elections, one south of Jacksonville and one in the Panhandle, the Democrats’ candidates, Josh Weil and Gay Valimont, were running stronger than expected in ruby-red districts. Fueled by liberal outrage around the country at the policies ...Read more

While the 2026 midterms are more than a year and a half away, three special elections happening Tuesday night should give voters in Pennsylvania and across the country a sense of which way the political breeze is blowing.

If Democrats overperform, it would be the latest sign Trump has already alienated some of his supporters a little more than ...Read more

A Nevada law that has gone unenforced since it was enacted 40 years ago will go into effect at the end of the month, requiring parents to be notified if their minor daughter seeks an abortion.

A federal judge ruled Monday that since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which protected a woman’s right to an abortion, there is no longer a legal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared open to upholding a federal law that allows lawsuits against the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Liberation Organization seeking damages from terror attacks.

During oral arguments in two cases, justices repeatedly suggested that they owed deference to Congress’ decision in 2019 to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In a rebuke of House leadership, a small group of Republicans on Tuesday joined Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to reject a rule on the House floor and clear the way for a renewed effort to allow recent parents to vote by proxy.

“Today is a pretty historical day for the entire conference,” the Florida Republican said immediately ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union argued to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that the Trump administration had not satisfied an “exceedingly high burden” required to override a judge’s temporary order to stop migrant deportations to a notorious Salvadoran mega prison.

In a 42-page filing to the justices, the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When the White House fired a federal prosecutor last week in Los Angeles, it could’ve been dismissed as an isolated case, with the administration targeting a one-time Democratic congressional candidate who had slammed President Donald Trump on the campaign trail.

But in the days since, it’s become clear the dismissal is part...Read more

President Donald Trump sowed confusion Tuesday as he continued to threaten hefty tariffs on imported goods even as White House advisers admitted they don’t know the details.

With what Trump has branded “Liberation Day” looming, the Republican president still had not released details of the potentially extensive new taxes on foriegn-made ...Read more

An Indiana abortion patient has accused a Champaign, Illinois, physician of perforating her uterus during the procedure and leaving half of a fetus inside her body, requiring emergency surgery afterward, according to a recent lawsuit.

The medical negligence lawsuit was filed March 21 in the Circuit Court of Champaign County against abortion ...Read more

Only one person, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has ever served more than two terms as president of the United States. This is for two reasons.

First, prior to Roosevelt’s election to a third term in 1940 there was a longstanding American tradition that presidents not serve more than two terms.

This tradition was established by ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday over South Carolina’s effort to keep Planned Parenthood facilities from receiving Medicaid funding if they perform abortions, part of a dispute that could impact Congress’ ability to mandate coverage in the program.

Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit to challenge the state�...Read more

WASHINGTON — A bitter intraparty dispute came to a head Tuesday as Republican members of the House Rules Committee, with the support of Speaker Mike Johnson, worked to shut down an effort to allow proxy voting for new parents in the House.

Tension had been building for weeks, as Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., led a push to circumvent ...Read more

ATLANTA — A federal judge has dismissed an epic court case challenging Georgia’s touchscreen voting system, ending the seven-year lawsuit that uncovered election security vulnerabilities and a breach in Coffee County.

U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg closed the case Monday but cited “substantial concerns” about Georgia’s voting ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In a private meeting at a global summit in Buenos Aires in 2018, China's president, Xi Jinping, turned to President Donald Trump and said it was a shame he couldn't stay in power beyond the two-term limit set by the U.S. Constitution. Trump agreed.

It was just one of several instances in which Trump mused over the prospects of an...Read more

Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed the idea of redistributing land to redress the nation’s legacies of slavery.

Land-based reparations are also a form of redress ...Read more

President Trump’s executive order seeking to impose federal oversight on state-run elections is not needed and is not legal. And tasking Elon Musk’s incompetent DOGE team makes it even worse. Voter fraud and multiple votes by the same person in a single election is a largely nonexistent bogeyman of Trump’s. Voting by people who are not U.S...Read more

Political campaigns in Georgia would face limits in the kind of personal information they can seek regarding students, particularly minors, under a bill that passed the House on Monday.

The legislation was spurred by a contentious state Senate race last fall between incumbent Shawn Still and challenger Ashwin Ramaswami in a district that covers...Read more