PHILADELPHIA — Donald Trump and most of his Republican congressional allies from Georgia still embrace allegations of a stolen election in 2020 even as GOP leaders warn the false narrative could cost them at the ballot box this year.

At least five of Georgia’s nine Republicans in the U.S. House have promoted falsehoods about widespread ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will be in Philadelphia on Tuesday for their long-awaited presidential debate — and a South Jersey native is co-moderating the event.

Tuesday's debate at the National Constitution Center follows weeks of back-and-forth between the Harris and Trump campaigns. The ...Read more

With weeks before Florida voters start casting mail and early ballots in the fall elections, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has pulled an unprecedented move that appears intent to undermine a proposed constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights.

Florida’s Department of State has sent requests to supervisors of elections in four ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz once signaled support for a controversial deficit reduction plan that would have cut entitlement programs and raised taxes across the board, a review of Walz’s record as a House lawmaker shows.

The Minnesota governor, who served in the House from 2007 through 2018, during those ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It was hard to follow everything that happened when the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

“If you were a doctor in Louisiana trying to keep up, in just over a month, abortion went from legal, to illegal, to legal for now, to illegal for now, to legal again for now, to ...Read more

Candidates for president of the United States typically run for office as though they were running for prime minister in a parliamentary democracy where their own party would have a clear majority in parliament. In such systems, which make up the vast majority of democracies in the world, the prime minister has enormous power to set policy.

In ...Read more

The abortion debate is about more than just abortion. Ending a pregnancy is just one option in the continuum of choices under the heading of reproductive health. Taking away that option inevitably undermines others, including contraception, in vitro fertilization, and even more basic health care issues for women and families.

That Missouri’s ...Read more

On the eve of Tuesday’s presidential debate, former President Donald Trump is the election betting favorite again over Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump is a -130 favorite at BetOnline to win the election over Harris, the +110 underdog.

Harris was a slight +100 favorite over Trump after the Democratic National Convention ended Aug. 22. But...Read more

Former President — and presidential hopeful — Donald Trump is scheduled to return to the Bay Area for a fundraiser on Friday, Sept. 13.

The San Francisco Republican Party promoted the event on its website but provided few details, noting only that it will take place beginning at 11:30 a.m. in Woodside, a bucolic wealthy town on the ...Read more

China hawks in the U.S. House overcame a last-ditch lobbying effort and passed legislation Monday night that would blacklist Chinese biotech companies and their U.S. subsidiaries.

The bill, approved by a vote of 306 to 81, now goes to the Senate.

At stake, the bill’s backers argued, is whether China will dominate another field the U.S. ...Read more

Vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will make campaign stops in Las Vegas on Monday and Tuesday ahead of the presidential debate, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff will stump for the campaign in Nevada after the debate on Tuesday.

Walz will touch down in Las Vegas on Monday evening and deliver remarks at a campaign stop Tuesday ...Read more

House Republicans are using this month’s government funding showdown to spotlight an immigration issue that can fuel their criticisms of Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic lawmakers ahead of the November elections.

In a draft measure released Friday to keep the government funded after Sept. 30, the House included the text of another ...Read more

Justice Samuel Alito is the only U.S. Supreme Court member with a stake in more than two dozen individual companies, a distinction that threatens to sideline him from major business cases.

Alito or his wife own tens of thousands of dollars of stock in companies including Raytheon Co., ConocoPhillips and a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. The ...Read more

The White Stripes are suing former President Donald Trump and his campaign for unlawfully using audio from their hit song, "Seven Nation Army," in a video posted on social media.

Jack White and Meg White, as the White Stripes, sued Trump, his campaign and his deputy director of communications Margo McAtee Martin Monday in the U.S. District ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The debate schedule in Pennsylvania's pivotal U.S. Senate race continues to take shape, with both Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger Dave McCormick now on board for at least a pair of debates next month in Harrisburg and Philadelphia.

A third debate in Pittsburgh remains in the works, with the candidates having accepted ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Patty Morin, the mother of Rachel Morin, who was killed on the Ma and Pa Heritage Trail last year, is scheduled to testify before Congress on Tuesday on the topic of immigration policy, according to the family’s attorney.

Patty Morin is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing titled: “The Biden-Harris ...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump were going through final preparations Monday for the first — and maybe only — debate of their neck-and-neck race for the White House.

With just hours to go before they meet in person for the first time in the high-stakes clash, neither Harris nor Trump had any public appearances...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis defended the use of his election police to question people who signed petitions for an amendment that would overturn the state’s six-week abortion ban, saying it’s part of an investigation that has already uncovered fraud.

“They’re doing what they’re supposed to do,” DeSantis said when asked during a news ...Read more