Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Tuesday that he will not be a candidate for US Senate, following a quiet campaign by Republican leaders to convince the term-limited governor to run.
Texas' March 1 primary is only a few weeks away, and it's the Lone Star State's first election to be conducted under a new law that made major changes to voting procedures.
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff is safe after being ushered out of a room at a Washington, DC, high school by the Secret Service after a bomb threat to the building, his spokesperson said.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday praised an Australian company that makes chargers for electric vehicles for agreeing to build a manufacturing facility in Tennessee, saying the plant will "have a ripple effect" far beyond the state.
A new government report out Tuesday details how opioid trafficking in the United States has changed in recent years, with Mexico now a "dominant source" of the country's fentanyl supply and synthetic opioids rapidly saturating drug markets.
Whoever President Joe Biden nominates to the Supreme Court is likely to spend at least the first decade, and possibly much more, of her tenure on the losing side of many key rulings decided by the court's conservative, Republican-appointed majority.
A rush of moves by Democratic states laying out timelines to lift mask mandates is leaving a cautious White House behind and hiking pressure on top government health officials to codify an Omicron endgame.
Maribel, who fled Honduras with her four children in 2014, is among the more than 660,000 asylum seekers in the US immigration system still waiting to resolve their cases. This logjam has bogged down the US immigration court system, leaving hundreds of thousands of people often waiting years for a resolution.
Republicans felt they were finally united in their quest to take back the House and Senate -- with the political winds at their back and President Joe Biden reeling from an array of domestic and international problems.
The Virginia Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit filed last month by parents in Chesapeake, Virginia, who alleged that Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin's mask executive order ran afoul of the state constitution.
A second defendant has signed a guilty plea agreement for his participation in the foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz insisted to CNN that the United States and Germany are on the same page when it comes to Russia and Ukraine, even as he refused to discuss the Nord Stream 2 pipeline between Russia and Germany.
A former Chicago bank executive was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison Monday for conspiring with one-time Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to exchange risky bank loans for a high-ranking position in the presidential administration.
There's a lot of news in North America on Covid-19 requirements. In Canada, protests against vaccine requirements have snarled Ottawa, the capital. In the US, more states are planning to go mask-optional in schools as Covid-19 case numbers decline.
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, allowed a congressional map drawn by Alabama Republicans to remain in place Monday, freezing a lower court ruling that said the map likely violates the Voting Rights Act by diluting the political power of Black voters.
