A New York federal judge expressed growing impatience Friday with what he calls ex-President Donald Trump's "repeated efforts to delay" a defamation lawsuit against him, saying he won't stop a January trial to await the outcome of a "frivolous" appeal of one of his rulings.

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is intensifying demands that Anheuser-Busch InBev hand over a trove of documents for his investigation of whether Bud Lite's partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney was marketing beer to children.

Investigators leading the impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have released nearly 4,000 pages of documents that lay out in new detail how the embattled Republican allegedly used multiple cellphones and an alias on a ride-sharing app to conceal an affair, and pressured top aides to help a donor who is now facing criminal charges.

When the invitation to lunch at the Empire State Building first arrived last summer, some of George Santos' campaign staffers were wary.

Thanks to his stunning 20-point reelection as governor of Florida, cementing the formerly purple state as a Republican stronghold, Ron DeSantis entered the presidential primary as the prospective preeminent challenger to former President Donald Trump. Just three months into his frankly disappointing campaign, however, DeSantis axed a slew of terminally online staffers and embraced the adversarial media that made him a rising star in the first place, promising his donors a proper pivot into a campaign capable of beating the incumbent.

San Diego has discovered that cleaning up homeless encampments makes sidewalks walkable and people safer. Who could have possibly guessed this?

GETTYSBURG — Dave McCormick was having a time of it when he walked into a town hall he was hosting here in Adams County in March 2022. It was two months before the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, former President Donald Trump had just endorsed celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz, and conservative activist Kathy Barnette was gaining on him and Oz in the contentious contest.

President Biden on Friday said the commitments made with South Korea and Japan during the Camp David Summit are meant to guard against political whiplash in Washington, D.C., and will push back on former President Trump’s “America First” policy. “There's not much, if anything, I agree on with my predecessor, on foreign policy," Biden said....

An abortion rights group in Nebraska is taking initial steps to put the issue on the ballot in 2024. A political campaign committee called Protect Our Rights filed paperwork earlier this month in support of a ballot initiative that would amend the state constitution to protect the right to an abortion. Language for the measure...

The Biden campaign on Friday seized on reports that Donald Trump will skip the first GOP primary debate in Wisconsin, arguing the state is a symbol of the former president's "failed leadership." "Of course Donald Trump wants to avoid appearing in Wisconsin because he knows Wisconsin is a state that illustrates his failed leadership," Biden...