Three-term West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey on Tuesday announced his candidacy for governor next year, joining a crowded field that already includes seven other Republicans.
Columbia Law School students have condemned an Instagram photograph of fellow students meeting with Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh in Washington, D.C., during a February visit.
Former President Trump's attorney Joe Tacopina on Tuesday said his client will not plead guilty when he appears in a Manhattan court for an arraignment on criminal charges.
The indictment of former President Donald Trump in New York City has sparked reactions around the world, from some Trump allies coming to his defense to U.S. adversaries pouncing on the development as a sign of American political chaos.
FOR PROSECUTOR BRAGG, TRUMP INDICTMENT IS CAMPAIGN PROMISE KEPT. Alvin Bragg, the local district attorney in Manhattan who has led the effort to indict former President Donald Trump, is an elected official. He ran for his current office in 2021. In that campaign, he won a Democratic primary crowded with fellow Democrats who promised that, if elected, they would go after Trump. Now, having been elected, Bragg is going after Trump.
Chicagoans will decide Tuesday night who will replace Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) as their next mayor in a contest that has offered two starkly different Democratic candidates. Former Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Paul Vallas, a centrist, and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, a progressive, are vying to be the city’s top executive after they...
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) announced she is endorsing former President Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, offering a show of support for the former president ahead of his arraignment in Manhattan on charges from a hush-money case. In a statement released late Monday on the eve of Trump's court appearance, the Mississippi Republican panned...
Roy McGrath, the onetime chief of staff of former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan wanted on corruption charges, died Monday after he was wounded in a confrontation with law enforcement, according to his lawyer. McGrath’s failure to appear for the start of his criminal trial on multiple charges of wire fraud, embezzlement and document falsification had...
Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) announced on Tuesday that his daughter Rosa died Monday night at the age of 28. García did not disclose a cause of death in his brief statement, writing, "Last night our beloved daughter, Rosa, passed away at the age of 28." García said his daughter “joined our family as a...