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U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s death creates a vacancy in the Senate at a time when Democrats hold the slimmest majority in the chamber.

With little time left to prevent a government shutdown, the House is in a familiar position: effectively paralyzed as conservatives feud with Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

The Senate is marching ahead with a bipartisan approach to prevent a government shutdown.

Accusations that New Mexico’s Democratic-led Legislature unfairly diluted the vote of a politically conservative oil-producing region with its redistricting map have gone to trial.

A coalition of anti-abortion organizations is urging two Wisconsin prosecutors to pursue charges against abortion providers in their counties despite a court's ruling that abortion is legal.

Joe Biden is walking toward a 2024 race for the White House saddled with a series of recent polling that finds even some Democrats think it’s time for a new name on the top of the DNC ticket.

Pennsylvania state government will prepare to use artificial intelligence in its operations, as states are increasingly trying to gauge the impact of AI and how to regulate it.

Surveillance video of a woman in Connecticut stuffing papers into an absentee ballot drop box has prompted an investigation into possible election fraud.

Environmental activists are praising President Joe Biden's New Deal-style American Climate Corps.

One of the biggest fights over abortion rights this year is in Virginia, where all of the state House and Senate seats are up for reelection.

Democrats in the Pennsylvania House will keep their one-vote majority after winning a Pittsburgh area seat in a special election.

The United States is at risk of another damaging government shutdown, potentially as soon as the end of September.

California lawmakers have finished their work for 2023.

For the third time in less than eight months, a special election will decide control of the narrowly divided Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

Lawmakers in California's state Assembly have voted to put a measure before voters next March that would overhaul the way counties are funding mental and behavioral health programs.

A candidate in a high-stakes legislative contest in Virginia performed sex acts with her husband in live videos posted on a pornographic website while asking viewers to pay them with “tokens" or ”tips” for individual requests.

Former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, who served seven terms in the U.S. House, is running for U.S. Senate in Michigan.

Recent court rulings in some southern states could affect the battle for control of Congress in the 2024 election.

California lawmakers have voted to outlaw discrimination based on caste.

Tennessee state Rep. Gloria Johnson has formally announced her campaign for U.S. Senate in 2024.

Former White House aide Gabe Amo could become the first person of color to represent Rhode Island in Congress after winning a crowded Democratic primary for the state’s 1st Congressional District special election Tuesday in the heavily Democratic state.

Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Legislature is talking about impeaching a newly elected liberal state Supreme Court justice even before she has heard a case.

A crowded field of candidates will be on the ballot in Rhode Island with an eye on replacing former Democratic U.S. Rep. David Cicilline.

Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers is expected to soon announce a bid for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat next year.

Republicans have chosen Houston to host their 2028 national convention.

Tennessee lawmakers are convening a special session this week that highlights the divergent response states are taking to a spate of mass shootings.

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says in Chile that it is imperative for the United States to declassify documents that could shed light on its involvement in the South American country’s 1973 coup.

Transgender youth in North Carolina have lost access to gender-affirming treatments after the state’s Republican-controlled General Assembly voted to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of that legislation and others involving gender in sports and LGBTQ classroom instruction.

The White House is taking on “junk fees,” those extra charges tacked on to plane tickets, hotel rooms, hospital bills and more.

A common practice in drawing state legislative districts has come under question in Wisconsin, where a lawsuit is seeking to reshape voting districts before the 2024 elections.

Tennessee is facing a lawsuit over a congressional redistricting map that carved up Democratic-leaning Nashville to help Republicans flip a seat in last year’s elections.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says he spoke with Sen. Dianne Feinstein after she fell in her home and went to the hospital for a short time.

Democrats in Minnesota and Michigan who won full control of their state government have used their new power to enact sweeping policy changes that have been stalled for years.

A lawsuit filed with Wisconsin’s newly liberal-controlled state Supreme Court argues that Republican-drawn legislative maps are unconstitutional and must be redone.

Wisconsin Democrats are celebrating the beginning of a new era for the state Supreme Court as it flips from conservative to liberal control for the first time in 15 years.

The fight over Alabama's congressional map is shifting back to federal court after Republican lawmakers declined to create a second majority-Black congressional district.

New Hampshire Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, who considered but decided against runs for president and the U.S. Senate, says he will not seek reelection in 2024.

Another tough U.S. House fight is shaping up in California’s Central Valley farm belt.

The House voted overwhelming bipartisan to pass a resolution reaffirming support for Israel, which appears to serve as an implicit rebuke of a leading Democrat who called the country a “racist state” but later apologized.

A Democrat who lost two congressional races in one of Florida’s most conservative districts announced Monday he will seek the nomination to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Rick Scott.

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville is waging an unprecedented campaign to try to change Pentagon abortion policy by holding up hundreds of military nominations and promotions.

The House has passed a sweeping defense bill that provides a pay raise for service members but strays from traditional military policy with Republicans add-ons blocking abortion coverage, diversity initiatives at the Pentagon and transgender care.

The Arizona Democratic Party is looking to force the new political party No Labels to disclose its donors or lose its status as a party.

The U.S. House majority is in play next year after an anemic showing by Republicans in the midterm elections and a surprise Supreme Court ruling that will likely bring two new safely Democratic districts.

Alabama Sen_ Tommy Tuberville is backing off his defense of white nationalists, telling reporters in the Capitol that white nationalists “are racists.”.

Few Republicans have high confidence that votes will be tallied accurately in next year’s presidential contest, suggesting years of sustained attacks against elections by former President Donald Trump and his allies have taken a toll.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers participated in a discussion about the situation in Cuba on Monday at the Bay of Pigs Museum & Library in Miami’s Little Havana.

An actor best known for his roles on “CSI: NY” and “The Good Doctor” will run for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat and challenge U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin for the Democratic nomination.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has drawn another Democratic challenger in the 2024 U.S. Senate race.

Adults in Arizona can now obtain contraceptive medications over the counter at a pharmacy without a doctor’s prescription under a governor's order announced Thursday.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has signed off on a two-year spending plan after gutting a Republican tax cut and using his broad veto powers to increase school funding for centuries.

The future of a bill that would let Danish offshore wind developer Orsted keep tax credits that it otherwise would have to return to New Jersey ratepayers was uncertain Friday afternoon after it failed to gather enough support in the state Senate.

A former tech executive is joining the crowded 2024 U.S. Senate race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

Republicans in the House are increasingly threatening impeachment against President Joe Biden and his top Cabinet officials.

California lawmakers have passed a nearly $311 billion state budget.

Spurred on by train derailments, some states crisscrossed by busy freight railroads aren’t waiting for federal action to improve safety.

A new California law aimed in part at increasing salaries for fast food workers has been delayed.

Former President Donald Trump has been honored as the Man of the Decade in a Michigan county he lost twice.

A proposal to expand access to abortions narrowly passed in the Maine House, clearing the first legislative hurdle after an emotional floor debate.

In the year since the Supreme Court overturned the national legal right to abortion, President Joe Biden has made little progress toward restoring access.

A historic number of state lawmakers were ousted in this week’s Virginia primary, which featured about four dozen legislative races that set the parties’ slate of candidates for what will be a hard-fought general election.

Delaware Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester says she is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by fellow Democrat Tom Carper.

The special counsel who investigated the FBI’s probe of ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign found himself at the center of a heated political fight as he appeared before a congressional committee.

His candidacy could impact who eventually is elected president in 2024.

President Joe Biden’s plan to overhaul his party’s 2024 presidential primary schedule remains unsettled.

Tennessee Reps. Justin Pearson and Justin Jones have advanced past an election hurdle after the two young Black lawmakers were expelled earlier this year for their gun control protest on the House floor, then reinstated by local officials days afterward.

Enough Republican members showed up in the Oregon Senate to end a six-week walkout that halted the work of the Legislature and blocked hundreds of bills, including some on abortion, transgender health care and gun safety.

The House has rejected an effort to censure California Rep. Adam Schiff, voting to turn aside a Republican attempt to fine the Democrat over his comments about former President Donald Trump and investigations into his ties to Russia.

Williamson also ran for president in 2020.

Americans may not like political gridlock, but a new Associated Press analysis indicates that the closely divided Congress relatively accurately reflects the desires of voters.

California's transit agencies are asking Democrats who control the state's government to rescue them like Democrats in New York recently did.

Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representatives are making a pitch to overhaul how elections are run in the District of Columbia.

Oregon Democratic lawmakers stood on the steps of the state Capitol and implored Republicans, who have been boycotting the Senate for over a month, to return and vote on bills.

Despite weeks of negotiations, the White House and House Republicans were unable to reach a comprehensive agreement to overhaul environmental regulations and streamline federal permitting as part of their budget deal.

While Republicans seek to make good on campaign promises to cut IRS funding through the proposed debt ceiling and budget cuts package now moving through Congress, Democrats are offering assurances that the spending cuts will have little impact on the federal tax collector.

Hard-fought to the end, the debt ceiling and budget cuts package is heading toward a crucial U.S. House vote.

President Joe Biden says he “feels good” about the debt ceiling and budget deal negotiated with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Work requirements for federal food aid recipients have emerged as a final sticking point in negotiations over the looming debt crisis, even as President Joe Biden says a deal is “very close.”.

A North Carolina redistricting ruling has set up a possible electoral windfall for congressional Republicans in preserving their U.S. House majority next year, declaring that judges should stay out of scrutinizing seat boundaries for partisan advantage.

Debt ceiling negotiations are locked on a classic problem that has vexed Washington before: Republicans led by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy want to roll back federal government spending, while President Joe Biden and other Democrats do not.

President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are to meet face to face on Monday after a weekend of on again, off again negotiations over raising the nation’s debt ceiling.

Debt limit talks between the White House and House Republicans stopped, started and stopped again heading into a weekend where President Joe Biden and world leaders watched from afar, hoping high-stakes negotiations would make progress on avoiding a potentially catastrophic federal default.

The political divide affecting the United States is hitting Oregon hard.

The Democrat who will almost certainly become Philadelphia’s next mayor wants to hire hundreds of additional police officers and says officers should be able to stop and search pedestrians if they have a legitimate reason to do so.

Work requirements for federal aid programs have emerged as a sticking point in ongoing negotiations over raising the nation’s debt ceiling, and President Joe Biden has signaled openness to a possible compromise even as many in his party have balked.

The Democratic mayoral primary in Philadelphia is the latest election to represent a clash between moderates and progressives on concerns such as policing and education and to show the power of union support in big city politics.

Voters in Philadelphia are determining who will likely lead the nation’s sixth-largest city in a crowded field of Democratic candidates.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday the state’s budget deficit has grown to nearly $32 billion.

A boycott by Republican state senators in Oregon threatens to derail dozens of bills, including on gun control and abortion rights, as a deadline looms that could also upend the protesters’ political futures.

Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is facing backlash for remarks he made about white nationalists in an interview about his blockade of military nominees.

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has returned to the Senate after a two-and-a-half-month absence recovering from a case of shingles.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein is returning to Washington after a more than two-month absence led to calls from within her own party for the oldest member of Congress to resign.

Embattled St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is resigning effective June 1 amid calls from Republican leaders for her ouster.

The Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature has approved and sent to the governor a ban on nearly all abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy in response to last year’s overturning of Roe v. Wade at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Partisan tensions in Oregon are skyrocketing this week because Republican state senators haven't shown up to work for two days, meaning the Democrats who control the chamber don't have enough people to lawfully convene.

Republican state senators in Oregon haven't shown up to work, denying the Democrats who control the chamber a quorum and casting doubt on planned votes later this week on legislation pertaining to gun control, abortion rights and gender-affirming health care.

The Michigan House has further advanced legislation that would outlaw companies from retaliating against employees for receiving abortions following its passage in the state Senate in March.

A Southern California lawmaker who is running for a contested Congressional seat was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

Iowa Democrats are proposing a novel way to get around their demotion from the leadoff spot on the party’s presidential nominating calendar: They would still put on the first-in-the-nation caucuses but would be open to withholding the results until after other states have their contests.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is calling lawmakers back to work after they rejected a bill setting out a new statewide drug policy.