James Solomon was elected mayor of Jersey City on Tuesday, thwarting former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey's bid for a political comeback.

Republican Matt Van Epps scored a closely watched win Tuesday over Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn in a special congressional election in Tennessee.

The Justice Department on Tuesday sued six more states in its ongoing campaign to obtain detailed voter data and other election information.

A federal judge put a hold Tuesday on the part of President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill budget law that ordered state Medicaid programs to stop doing business with Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.

A coalition of protesters, journalists and faith leaders moved Tuesday to dismiss their lawsuit challenging the aggressive tactics of federal immigration officers in the Chicago area, arguing that the Trump administration's "Operation Midway Blitz" has largely ended.

The Trump administration's latest move to enforce standards for commercial truck drivers, by flagging nearly half of the driving schools as noncompliant, doesn't figure to disrupt the industry, experts say. But the heavy scrutiny on immigrant drivers might.