A partisan redistricting battle among states has accelerated ahead of the November midterm elections following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that weakened the federal Voting Rights Act and opened the way for states to try to eliminate voting districts drawn for racial minorities.

The jumbled field of candidates who want to be California's next governor is returning to the debate stage Tuesday, just as mail voting kicked off.

A special election in a small Michigan swing district on Tuesday could have outsized consequences, determining whether Democrats retain their slim majority in the state Senate for the final months of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's term.

Republican Vivek Ramaswamy has spent his campaign for Ohio governor focused on November's general election and finally gets the chance Tuesday to put the long primary season behind him, as the Trump-endorsed biotech entrepreneur positions for an expensive run against Dr. Amy Acton, the former state health director.

The Trump administration accused the New York Times in a lawsuit filed Tuesday of engaging in race-based workplace discrimination by rejecting a White male editor for promotion in favor of a less-experienced "multiracial female."

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) and former state Rep. Derek Merrin are projected to win their respective primaries on Tuesday, setting up a rematch in November after the longest-serving woman in Congress narrowly defeated Merrin in 2024. Kaptur — who has represented Ohio’s 9th Congressional District since 1983 — ran unopposed, while Merrin defeated a crowded...

The Department of Education on Tuesday announced that it is investigating the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) over its alleged reassigning, and not removal, of teachers accused of sexual misconduct. The department released a statement accusing LAUSD of "protecting predators at the expense of its students" and that the reassigning of teachers included those...

Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) and Republican Eric Conroy are projected to win their respective primaries on Tuesday, setting up a competitive general election matchup in November, according to Decision Desk HQ. Landsman, who has represented Ohio’s 1st Congressional District since 2023, fended off a primary challenge from businessman Damon Lynch IV. Conroy, an Air Force...