ATLANTA — Campaign finance violations linked to Stacey Abrams’ 2018 Democratic campaign for Georgia governor may inspire new legislation aimed at curbing illegal election funding.

In January, the New Georgia Project — founded by Abrams — admitted it illegally raised and spent millions of dollars to support her candidacy, and the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With the longest government shutdown in U.S. history now behind them, lawmakers aren’t rushing to give out any extra credit.

“An ‘I.’ Indecisive,” said Tennessee Republican Rep. Tim Burchett when asked how Congress’ recent performance would stack up on a report card.

“Is there a grade below ‘F’?” Wisconsin ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups urged the Supreme Court on Friday to block new California laws that will require thousands of companies to disclose their emissions and their impacts on climate change.

One of the laws is due to take effect on Jan. 1, and the emergency appeal asks the court to put it on hold ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Michigan U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib is leading a resolution in Congress officially "recognizing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza" with the support of 20 House Democratic members and over 100 organizations.

The resolution is unlikely to advance in the Republican-led House, where most lawmakers support Israel. Israel has...Read more

ATLANTA – A veteran prosecutor said Friday he is appointing himself to take over Georgia’s closely-watched election interference case against President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others.

Pete Skandalakis, the head of the state agency tasked with naming a replacement prosecutor after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was ...Read more

The drumbeat to release the Epstein files just got a lot louder. Emails from disgraced financier and sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein released by House Democrats Wednesday say President Donald Trump “knew about the girls” and “spent hours” with a victim at Epstein’s house. Those allegations, whether true or not, must be addressed — ...Read more

Vote counting began Friday in Bihar — India’s poorest yet one of its most politically significant states — in an election seen as a key test of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity after a year marred by economic headwinds and foreign policy challenges.

Exit polls released after Tuesday’s final phase of voting project that Modi�...Read more

A senior Trump administration official has referred U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., to the U.S. Department of Justice for an investigation over alleged mortgage and tax fraud tied to a Washington, D.C., home, NBC News reported Thursday.

Swalwell, a former Dublin council member, dismissed the allegations as politically motivated.

“As the ...Read more

The British Broadcasting Corp. issued a formal apology to Donald Trump on Thursday over the misleading edit of the U.S. president’s speech in a documentary program late last year, but rejected his demands for compensation.

BBC Chairman Samir Shah sent a personal letter to the White House “making clear to President Trump that he and the ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A group of 22 Michigan Republican lawmakers has asked President Donald Trump's U.S. Department of Justice to deploy monitors to vote-counting facilities and to provide general oversight for the state's upcoming elections in 2026.

In a letter sent Thursday to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, the GOP legislators said their ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congress flouted several legal principles with an unusual provision creating a streamlined path only for senators to file lawsuits and collect at least $1 million each for government actions in the previous administration, experts and critics say.

That includes a constitutional limitation on lawmaker pay increases, creating a new...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order to expand foster care services to children moving out of the system into adulthood, bolstering one of first lady Melania Trump’s initiatives.

“We are going to protect American children in foster care, and we’re going to ensure that they will never, ever be forgotten,” Trump...Read more

Proponents of an effort to stop members of Congress from trading stocks are cautiously optimistic that it could pick up steam now that the government shutdown has ended.

The House Administration Committee will meet Wednesday morning for a hearing on the issue, a small step forward for the lawmakers threatening to use whatever procedural tactics...Read more

NEW YORK — Council member Erik Bottcher threw his hat into a crowded ring to compete for Rep. Jerry Nadler’s House seat, he said Thursday.

Nadler, 78, announced his retirement in September, leaving an opportunity for younger politicians vying for a shot. His Manhattan district, which spans from 14th Street to the top of Central Park, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — How much political capital did President Donald Trump burn during a government shutdown he mostly left to lawmakers to end?

Perhaps, paradoxically, not very much.

So-called “Teflon Don” might have just survived yet another crisis that would have hamstrung any other chief executive, according to former congressional aides and...Read more

A provision significantly limiting the sale of intoxicating hemp products made its way into legislation to reopen the federal government just a day before the Senate approved the bill. Its inclusion follows years of pressure from states and the marijuana industry.

While states continue to expand access to legal marijuana, a separate market of ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has been handed his first loss in higher court since joining Miami Dade College’s defense in a lawsuit over whether the school’s Board of Trustees violated Florida’s Sunshine Law when it voted to give away land for Donald Trump’s presidential library.

Uthmeier asked Florida’s Third ...Read more

The federal government slowly started to reopen Thursday but things remain far from normal after President Donald Trump signed a Republican government funding bill that narrowly passed both houses of Congress to end the longest shutdown in U.S. history.

Air travel remained snarled with hundreds more flights canceled and delayed, but experts ...Read more

Now that U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s new title is governor-elect, someone will need to take her place in Congress.

Sherrill represents a North Jersey district that she flipped blue in 2018, defeating a Republican candidate after the GOP incumbent retired. A flurry of Democrats are hoping to replace her in what’s since become a reliably blue ...Read more