Oklahomans broke records by the end of the state's early voting period on Saturday, with over 390,000 people turning up and enduring hours-long lines to cast their vote for the 2024 election.
News analysis: Reform UK is benefiting from a perfect storm for all the mainstream parties, but has yet to prove if it is anything more than a one man show platform for Nigel Farage or is something more significant
Social media wits gleefully noted that Fox News and Newsmax had declined to hire the former Florida representative and failed attorney general nominee.
Eager to preserve President-elect Donald Trump ’s hush money conviction even as he returns to office, prosecutors are suggesting various ways forward — including one based on how some courts handle criminal cases when defendants die. In court papers made public Tuesday, the Manhattan district attorney’s office proposed an array of options for keeping the historic conviction on the books. The proposals include freezing the case until Trump is out of office, or agreeing that any future sentence wouldn’t include jail time.
A new exit poll of battleground state voters found that President-elect Trump’s economic message broke through demographic barriers, building a national coalition that Vice President Harris was unable to match. The poll, commissioned by Way to Win, a pro-Democratic electoral strategy group, oversampled Black, Latino and Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters in Arizona, Georgia,…
A pressure campaign from allies of Donald Trump toward Senate Republican skeptics of some of his Cabinet picks appears to be starting to pay off in a sign of the president-elect's anticipated sway once he enters the Oval Office next month.
The prosecutors suggested eliminating the possibility of jail time for the president-elect as one of several suggestions on how to proceed.
Former President Clinton said he is open to having a conversation with President Biden about a potential preemptive pardon for his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Bill Clinton joined “The View” on Wednesday, where he was discussing President-elect Trump taking office early next year and the threat of him going after political enemies…
Wisconsin prosecutors filed 10 additional felony charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide to President-elect Donald Trump who advised Trump in 2020 as part of a plan to submit paperwork falsely claiming that the Republican had won the battleground state that year. Jim Troupis, who was Trump’s attorney in Wisconsin, Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who advised the campaign, and Mike Roman, Trump’s director of Election Day operations in 2020, all initially faced a single felony forgery charge in Wisconsin.
Tight electoral margins might be thought to foster centrism. In reality, partisan power grabs are incentivized.
Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner has filed to run for a seat on the New York City Council, launching a potential political comeback after his once-promising career was destroyed by sexting scandals and later a criminal conviction for having illicit online contact with a child. Campaign finance records list a campaign committee that was set up on Friday for Weiner called Weiner 25, in addition to listing him as a candidate for a council seat in lower Manhattan. In a phone conversation Tuesday with The Associated Press, Weiner, a Democrat, said he is “still exploring” whether to actually campaign for the office.
Former first minister Alex Salmond’s niece will run to be an MSP in one of his former seats, the Alba Party has announced.
Trump recently signaled openness to raising the federal minimum wage. Even if he's serious, he's likely to hit GOP resistance.
The country is awash in hundreds, if not thousands, of election analyses, but many of the tools being employed are laden with problems and pitfalls and much of the data is subject to multiple interpretations.
Podcaster Joe Rogan and Kate Middleton have joined Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and Elon Musk on the ten-name shortlist for Time magazine's Person Of The Year. The award went to music superstar Taylor Swift last year and Barack Obama was crowned twice, in 2008 and 2012. The full shortlist for 2024, in alphabetical order, is: Kamala Harris, Kate Middleton, Elon Musk, Yulia Navalnaya, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jerome Powell, Joe Rogan, Claudia Sheinbaum, Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg.
Conservative activist Harmeet Dhillon is at the forefront of a legal campaign against LGBT+ protections
North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Anderson Clayton said she’s “absolutely” concerned that the state Supreme Court could overturn the results of a race for a seat on the court that has now gone to two recounts. The results of the initial count and the first recount both showed incumbent Democratic state Supreme Court Justice Allison…
High-profile battle raising profile for possible White House fight in his future
When Trump takes over, Republicans may try to eliminate trans health care in America. Some fear Democrats won't stop them
In a packed union hall outside Detroit, a worker shifts the conversation from policy to the personal, quizzing Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on his knowledge of Michigan, the state he only recently started calling home. “Mayor Pete — Secretary Pete, I apologize,” one auto worker yelled from the crowd.
Trump's cabinet picks so far include Matt Gaetz, Elon Musk, and Pete Hegseth. See who else he's tapped in 2024 to be part of his administration.
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