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Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio said Sunday that "of course" the Buckeye State was still a swing state, brushing off concerns about a 2024 reelection bid after Republican J.D. Vance won the state's other Senate seat last month.

Republican Rep.-elect Mike Lawler of New York on Sunday offered his full support for House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy's speakership bid, saying the party won't be "held hostage by a handful of members" seeking to place a different Republican atop the chamber.

Donald Trump's continued presence on the American political scene is one of the reasons Republicans underperformed in this year's midterm elections. The former president's debilitating effect on his party was perhaps no more evident than in Georgia, where Trump's Republican nemesis Gov. Brian Kemp cruised to reelection, while his preferred Senate candidate, Herschel Walker, was forced into a runoff with Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.

The former president sometimes called "Teflon Don" is learning that sometimes, the subpoenas do stick.

Hakeem Jeffries, the new leader of the Democrats in the House, insists that he hasn't had time to reflect on making history as the first Black leader in Congress. What matters, he said, is getting his party back to the majority in 2024 -- and likely then getting himself to be speaker.

Former President Donald Trump is no Teddy Roosevelt. But look closer and he shares three disturbing traits with Roosevelt that should worry the GOP in the 2024 presidential election, historians say.

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker are making their closing arguments to voters ahead of the Senate runoff election on Dec. 6. Follow here for the latest live news updates on the campaign.

Former President Donald Trump called for the termination of the Constitution to overturn the 2020 election and reinstate him to power Saturday in a continuation of his election denialism and pushing of fringe conspiracy theories.

Democrat Adam Gray conceded on Friday night to Republican John Duarte in the open-seat race to represent California's 13th Congressional District, the final House race of the 2022 midterms to be called.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is pushing to enforce a state law that allows first responders to involuntarily commit people experiencing a mental health crisis. Advocates for the homeless oppose this. And mental health professionals are questioning it.

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and GOP challenger Herschel Walker are making their closing arguments to voters ahead of the Dec. 6 runoff Senate election.

About 300,000 Georgians have voted early each day this week -- setting records for the largest single-day early voting turnout in state history.

A superior court judge in Georgia has ordered Cobb County to extend its deadline for accepting absentee ballots in the US Senate runoff after a lawsuit claimed that numerous voters who had applied for absentee ballots had not received them.

Lawyers for Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio revealed in court Friday that they plan to argue during their December seditious conspiracy trial that the far-right extremist group was in touch with law enforcement about their plans to rally in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021.

Americans should not just consider how the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade impacts women's rights, but also how it affects individuals' civil rights, Anita Hill said in an interview with CNN's Chris Wallace.

President Joe Biden met with the Prince of Wales in Boston on Friday, where the two men shared "warm memories" of the late Queen Elizabeth II, according to Kensington Palace.

The Biden administration is adding the Wagner Group, an infamous private Russian military firm, to the list of Entities of Particular Concern under the International Religious Freedom Act "based on its actions in the Central African Republic," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday.

Jamal Simmons, Vice President Kamala Harris' communications director, is leaving her office around a year after his role was announced.

Closing arguments ended Friday in the criminal trial of the Trump Organization with New York prosecutors urging the jury to put aside politics and the company's namesake and focus simply on the fraud allegations against it -- despite accusing Donald Trump of knowing about the schemes in real time.

An inspector general for the Internal Revenue Service said this week that significant tax audits conducted for 2017 and 2019 -- years where former FBI Director James Comey and then-deputy Andrew McCabe have said they were audited -- were randomly selected and did not show misconduct by the IRS.