WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court took a first step Monday to consider anti-abortion challenges to medication that has been commonly used to end early pregnancies for 25 years.

The justices moved quickly to put on hold an appeals court ruling that would block the mailing of abortion pills nationwide. Justice Samuel A. Alito issued a temporary "...Read more

As the nation observes its 250th birthday, historians can help settle one present-day dispute: Is the United States a democracy or a republic?

For years, advocates have argued the point.

Yet the question itself is misleading. It assumes that the categories constructed by political theorists neatly describe actual practice.

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The U.S. Supreme Court issued a temporary stay on an appeals court ruling from Friday that was blocking remote access to an abortion drug, restoring access until at least May 11.

The administrative stay, issued by Justice Samuel Alito, pauses Friday’s decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. That ruling blocked a 2023 rule adopted by the...Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party was set to secure its first-ever election victory in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, expanding its support base across the country and bolstering his standing as the nation’s most popular leader.

The Bharatiya Janata Party won 50 seats and was leading in 154 seats in vote counting for the state ...Read more

Colombians face a hard, familiar choice in this month’s presidential election: negotiate with violent criminals, or go back to war against them.

Voters must decide whether to continue President Gustavo Petro’s “Total Peace” strategy, which has brought seven drug-trafficking militias to the negotiating table, even as their leaders get ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House Democratic campaign arm is adding eight more candidates in competitive districts – including several locked in messy primaries – to its list of contenders eligible for additional resources.

The “Red to Blue” program provides a glimpse into how the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee views the House ...Read more

Embarking on a second term about six months after the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority struck down the federal right to abortion, Gov. JB Pritzker declared in his January 2023 inaugural address that the new realities facing those seeking the procedure “demand that we establish a constitutional protection for reproductive rights in ...Read more

India begins counting votes in several key states on Monday, providing a barometer of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity in the face of heightened economic challenges.

The stakes are particularly high in the eastern state of West Bengal, where Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party is seeking its first win against Chief Minister Mamata ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will begin guiding some neutral ships trapped in the Persian Gulf out through the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday.

“The Ship movement is merely meant to free up people, companies, and Countries that have done absolutely nothing wrong — They are victims of circumstance,” Trump wrote Sunday in a social ...Read more

Calling for an end to economic inequality and the creeping political power of billionaires, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders joined prominent Minnesota progressives in Rochester on Saturday, May 2, urging people to organize.

“The challenges that we face are enormous, and the decisions that we make right now will not only shape the future of our ...Read more

Seventeen candidates are vying for three federal seats in Congress from Idaho in contested Republican and Democratic races in the fast-approaching May 19 primary election.

Incumbent U.S. Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, seeks his fourth term for the seat he’s held since 2009. After nearly 48 years in elected public office, Risch, 83, faces three GOP ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will begin guiding some neutral ships trapped in the Persian Gulf out through the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday.

“The Ship movement is merely meant to free up people, companies, and Countries that have done absolutely nothing wrong — They are victims of circumstance,” Trump wrote Sunday in a social ...Read more

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey joined calls across the nation urging the Supreme Court to immediately reverse the decision to cut access to mailing the abortion medication mifepristone after an appeals court ruling over the weekend.

“This decision will hurt the health and wellbeing of women and should be immediately reversed,” Healey ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Rome later this week, according to people familiar with the matter, after Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Donald Trump clashed over the Iran war and her defense of Pope Leo XIV.

Rubio’s staff sent details of his visit to Italian counterparts last week, the people said, speaking...Read more

BOSTON — Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Minogue, fresh off his dominant performance at the MassGOP Convention, is blowing past primary debate challenges to take direct aim at Democratic Gov. Maura Healey.

“Maura Healey has spent three years driving up energy and housing costs, failing to support the audit, and making it harder to ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., hosted a roundtable with Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Mike Duffey and defense industry leaders Friday in Williamsburg, Virginia, as lawmakers gear up for the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act process.

Wittman called the moment a “big transition time” for the military, and ...Read more

A wise man — possibly Winston Churchill — once said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” And if he’d lived long enough to see President Donald Trump in office, he might have added, “Especially if you can turn it into a real estate project.”

In the aftermath of the chaos at the White House Correspondents’ dinner, Trump was ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia state Rep. Chris Rabb, who is locked in a tight campaign for a seat in Congress, is disavowing a December post on his Instagram account that promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theory about the deadly Hanukkah massacre in Australia’s Bondi Beach, saying a former staffer was responsible.

The shooters, a 50-year-old...Read more

PLANTATION, Fla. — Fired up and defiant after Republicans blew up her congressional district, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Friday she would run for election — but she didn’t say where.

“The easiest decision for me to make is that I’m running,” she said Friday after an event in Plantation.

Wasserman Schultz said she would...Read more