College students and professors in Florida are suing education officials over a new law spurred by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' war on "woke," saying it violates their constitutional rights by censoring academic freedom.

Voting rights groups that sued state officials over a Florida redistricting plan championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis have agreed to narrow the scope of the lawsuit to a single congressional seat that was redrawn and diminished Black voting power in north Florida.

Lawmakers are pressuring President Biden to combat Iran's threats against American companies that take Iranian oil from a U.S.-seized tanker off the coast of Texas.

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel Monday to Maui to meet with first responders, survivors and government officials after horrifying wildfires ripped through the Hawaiian island, the White House said Wednesday.

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows wants the conspiracy charges filed against him in Fulton County, Georgia, to be moved to a federal court, saying the allegations against him apply to his tenure in the Trump administration.

America’s political parties are the oldest and third-oldest in the world, and they have competed for votes among a population that has been diverse since colonial times. If you have any doubts about that, consult David Hackett Fischer’s 1989 classic Albion’s Seed on how settlers from different parts of the British Isles brought distinctive “folkways” to the different seaboard colonies and the Appalachian backwoods.