North Carolina State representative Tricia Cotham has switched parties and given Republicans a 60 percent supermajority in both houses of the legislature.
Georgia's Stacey Abrams will join the faculty at Howard University in Washington, D.C., the next step in her reemergence after the Democrat lost her second bid to be governor of Georgia last year to Republican Brian Kemp.
The upcoming trial in a voting machine company's defamation lawsuit against Fox News for airing false allegations of vote fraud in the 2020 presidential election will not include testimony about the Jan. 6 uprising at the U.S. Capitol, a judge ruled Wednesday.
LSU hoops star Angel Reese said she and her NCAA championship team will not visit the White House after first lady Jill Biden proposed also extending an invitation to the defeated Iowa Hawkeyes to celebrate both teams.