As North Carolina House members met privately over whether to authorize more gambling in the state, social conservatives, business operators and political candidates urged lawmakers on Tuesday to reject efforts to permit more casinos and legalize statewide video gaming machines.

President Joe Biden turned up in a mask for the first time in months on Tuesday, a day after his wife tested positive for COVID-19. But the president quickly ditched it during a ceremony honoring an 81-year-old Vietnam veteran, and the two unmasked octogenarians shared a hearty handshake before they parted.

Republican presidential candidates are zeroing in on energy proposals they say would cut costs with more domestic fossil fuel production and counter President Biden's climate-change agenda.

Britain's Conservative government relaxed planning rules Tuesday and lifted restrictions that effectively banned the building of new onshore wind farms in England.

The end of Labor Day weekend would typically mark the start of a furious sprint to the Iowa caucuses as candidates battle for their party's presidential nomination. But as the 2024 campaign comes into greater focus, the usual frenzy is yielding to a sense of inevitability.

Ron DeSantis was once within striking distance of Donald Trump. But after a summer of campaigning and four Trump indictments, the Florida governor has floundered in national polls while the former president has ascended.

Sen. Rand Paul said he isn't buying the diagnosis of Minority Leader Mitch McConnell by the U.S. Capitol's top doctor following a second freezing episode last week.

Former Rep. Mike Rogers is running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, giving the GOP a well-known candidate in a growing field of contenders in an election that could shift control of the upper chamber.

Inflation caused by President Joe Biden’s aggressive stimulus spending policies is wreaking havoc on working families, especially those with credit card debt.

'A RIOT IS THE LANGUAGE OF THE UNHEARD.' On Feb. 7, 2022, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), a member of the Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland. It was about the case of Montez Lee, a Rochester, Minnesota, man sentenced to 10 years in prison for setting a fire that killed a man during the Black Lives Matter riot in Minneapolis. The background: