Politics

Former state lawmaker Troy Jackson won the Democratic nomination for Maine's U.S. Senate seat on Saturday, capping nearly three weeks of political drama following the collapse of Graham Platner's campaign.

A bipartisan bill to require artificial intelligence companies to maintain the ability to shut down their models was introduced following an OpenAI system going rogue during testing.

Back-to-back rulings in Massachusetts blocked TPS terminations for Ethiopia and South Sudan, sparking fierce debate over lower court authority.

POLL: Rural voters have soured on Trump again, with his standing among the group flipping from positive to negative in the span of a month.

President Trump addressed the White House Correspondents' Association dinner Friday night, the event's first full gathering since an armed suspect disrupted the previous dinner months earlier, opening his remarks by praising Secret Service and law enforcement personnel for their response that night.

Tom Goldstein, a lawyer who argued dozens of cases before the Supreme Court and founded the widely read SCOTUSBlog but lived a secret life as a high-stakes poker player, was sentenced to six years in federal prison for tax evasion and mortgage fraud.

Troy Jackson, a fifth-generation logger and former state Senate president, now faces Susan Collins in Maine's Senate race ranked a toss-up.

Saritha Komatireddy accused Letitia James of failing to investigate nonprofit homeless shelters despite billions in taxpayer funding and fraud claims.

A $35,000 bribe allegedly tied to a COVID-19 testing contract led to Sylvia Luke's indictment, with Gov. Josh Green calling for her resignation.

Rep. Brandon Gill is the youngest House Republican and is lauded as a rising star within the party.