The State Fair of Texas is laying down a new rule before millions of visitors flock through the gates for corn dogs, deep-fried delights and a friendly wave from a five-story cowboy named Big Tex: No guns allowed.

One of the people accused of damaging a Ferguson Police Department fence moments before a police officer was critically injured has withdrawn as an uncommitted alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention, the Missouri Democratic Party said Wednesday.

An election board in one of Georgia's largest counties has voted to start charging people who challenge the eligibility of voters for the cost of notifying the challenged voters.

Visitors to the Colorado State Capitol will no longer be monitored by the political fashion police.

Police in northern Virginia said Wednesday they were looking for a homeless man they suspect broke into an office of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

A member of the Democratic National Committee filed a complaint Wednesday seeking to remove the Green Party's presidential candidate from the ballot in Wisconsin, arguing that the party is ineligible.

"Republican-led states are driving job growth. Vice President [Kamala] Harris and President Biden deserve no credit for jobs that have been created -- they paid Americans not to work for months and stifled economic growth," the committee said in a report released Wednesday.

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon is seeking reelection in November even as he faces a full-blown revolt by his prosecutorial staff.

Former President Donald Trump tried -- somewhat reluctantly -- to pivot his campaign on Wednesday from hurling personal insults against Vice President Kamala Harris to criticizing her economic record on scourges like inflation, even as the White House claimed progress on the economy.