Republican state Sen. Randy Fine won Tuesday's special election in Florida's 6th Congressional District to fill the seat that Michael Waltz vacated to serve as President Trump's national security adviser.

The U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from its library after being told by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office to review and get rid of ones that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, U.S officials said Tuesday.

Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. government has used its immigration enforcement powers to crack down on international students and scholars at several American universities who had participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations or criticized Israel over its military action in Gaza.

A judge in Boston is holding a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in contempt after he detained a suspect while the man was on trial.

A federal judge has ruled that the legal battle over Mahmoud Khalil's deportation should continue to play out in New Jersey, rejecting the Trump administration's bid to transfer the Columbia University protester's case to Louisiana.

It started as an ordinary D.C. intersection - a tourist destination with a modest white church on the corner, notable largely for an unobstructed view of the White House across Lafayette Park. Then, in the pandemic summer of 2020, it transformed.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Tuesday said Democrats "have to take some responsibility" for the current state of the country, during his first interview after setting a new record for the longest Senate floor speech in history. In an interview on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," Booker said he was inspired to speak on the...

Jill Underly was projected to prevail in her reelection for Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction, beating challenger Brittany Kinser, according to Decision Desk HQ. Though the race is technically nonpartisan, Underly was backed by the state Democratic Party and Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), while Kinser, an education consultant who has advocated for school choice,...

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Tuesday he was determined to surpass Sen. Strom Thurmond’s (R-S.C.) prior record for longest Senate floor speech in history, saying it “irked” him that the late senator made history by trying to block civil rights legislation in the 1950s. “To be candid, Strom Thurmond’s record always kind of, just,...