A leading election forecaster shifted its rating of the presidential race for North Carolina to “toss-up,” marking another gain for Vice President Harris’s campaign. Sabato’s Crystal Ball said Tuesday that it was moving North Carolina from the “leans Republican” column to a toss-up, as support for Harris builds not only in the Tar Heel State...
Births in the United States dropped again between 2022 and 2023, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The national birth rate has been steadily declining for the last 17 years, with a particularly steep drop in births between 2007 and 2009 during the Great Recession. Between 2007...
CHICAGO — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) says Democrats will prioritize circumventing the Senate filibuster to pass voting rights legislation if they keep control of the White House and Senate and win back the House in November. Schumer attempted to carve out a loophole in the Senate’s filibuster rule, which requires 60 votes to...
Ten more states have joined the Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation, the agency announced Monday. The attorneys general of Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah and Vermont signed on to the case, joining 29 other states and the District of Columbia. ...
Justice Department submits court filing this week certifying that former President Trump acted within the scope of his office when he ordered a crackdown on rioters outside the White House in 2020.
A Department of Homeland Security internal watchdog has published a report finding that at least 32,000 unaccompanied migrant children are no longer accounted for by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.