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Stefanik's rise toward leadership job irks conservatives

Conservatives in and out of Congress are expressing opposition to Rep. Elise Stefanik ’s rise toward House Republicans' No.

Washington Post says US secretly obtained reporters' records

The Trump Justice Department secretly seized the phone records of three Washington Post reporters who covered the federal ...

Arizona Senate assures feds election recount is secure

The Republican president of the Arizona Senate said in a letter Friday to the U.S. Justice Department that ballots being ...

Texas GOP's voting restriction bill passes House

Texas has become the latest Republican-dominated state to advance sweeping new limits on voting, despite no evidence of any ...

GOP seeks a candidate that can end its exile in Virginia

Few places in the country have moved as quickly toward Democrats as Virginia, where Barack Obama ended his party’s 44-year ...

Texas GOP voting bill passes key House vote

Texas has become the latest Republican-dominated state to advance sweeping new limits on voting, despite no evidence of any ...

In surprise, Atlanta Mayor Bottoms won't seek a second term

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Friday she has wrestled since her first year in office with whether to seek a second ...

Maldives police say blast that hurt Nasheed act of terrorism

Police in the Maldives said Friday an explosion that wounded former President Mohamed Nasheed and four others including a ...

Some Republicans worry voting limits will hurt the GOP, too

As Republicans march ahead with their campaign to tighten voting laws in political battlegrounds, some in their party are ...

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms not seeking reelection

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Thursday she will not seek a second term, an election-year surprise that marks ...

GOP seeks unity, even if that means embracing election lie

There's a new buzzword among Republicans in Washington: unity. The House GOP, led by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, is ...

Liz Cheney, Donald Trump feud gets mixed reviews in Wyoming

As Republicans in Washington turn up the heat on Rep. Liz Cheney, the defiant third-term congresswoman faces mixed reviews ...

Cheney, Trump feud gets mixed reviews in Wyoming

With Republicans in Washington turning up the heat to oust Rep. Liz Cheney, a firm Trump critic who holds the No. 3 GOP role ...

AP FACT CHECK: Yes, Trump lost election despite what he says

Seeking to shame Republicans who are disloyal to him, former President Donald Trump distorted the Constitution’s meaning in ...

Florida gov signs GOP voting law critics call 'un-American'

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a wide-ranging list of new voting restrictions into law Thursday, staging a misleading, ...

Cheney challenger Stefanik says GOP must work with Trump

Rep. Elise Stefanik stated her case Thursday for replacing Rep. Liz Cheney as the No. 3 House Republican leader, implicitly ...

Florida governor signs elections law rewrite

Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a major rewrite of Florida's elections law on Thursday, tightening rules around drop boxes and ...

Biden pushes infrastructure plan in GOP stronghold

With a badly aging bridge as his backdrop, President Joe Biden stood in reliably Republican Louisiana on Thursday to pressure ...

Super Thursday: Britons vote in a bumper crop of elections

Millions of British voters were casting ballots Thursday in local and regional elections, and the choices of Scottish voters ...

Somalia says it has resumed diplomatic ties with Kenya

Somalia says it has resumed diplomatic ties with neighboring Kenya after severing relations late last year. A government ...