Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee has announced he will abandon his reelection bid after more than 19 years representing the states 9th Congressional District, a seat now poised to shift to Republican control following a contentious redistricting.

A North Carolina NAACP chapter is under fire after denouncing efforts by white candidates to be appointed interim mayor of Charlotte, raising fresh concerns about open racial hostility in local politics.

In a rare display of unanimity, the U.S. Senate has approved a measure to withhold lawmakers own paychecks whenever they allow the federal government to shut down.

Californias entrenched Democratic machine is facing fresh scrutiny after Governor Gavin Newsoms former chief of staff admitted to multiple felonies in a sweeping public corruption probe tied to gubernatorial hopeful Xavier Becerra.

Three hundred sixty?three more names have been etched into stone this year at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, each one representing a father or mother, a brother or sister, a neighbor who will never again be there when the call for help comes in the dead of night.

Host Stephen Colbert and his legendary predecessor David Letterman spent part of Thursday nights Late Show taking true joy in the wanton destruction of CBS property, hurling furniture from the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater to obliterate a giant CBS logo just days before the programs final broadcast.

A rolling digital billboard weaving through Los Angeles traffic is putting Democratic Mayor Karen Bass on blast for jetting off to Ghana just as her city braced for devastating, wind-driven wildfires.

Spencer Pratts insurgent campaign for Los Angeles mayor has turned Nithya Ramans carefully curated progressive image into a political liability, exposing a record that many residents now see as emblematic of everything wrong with the citys left-wing governance.

Senate Democrats devoted much of Wednesday to a series of doomed floor votes defending the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), an agency that, by the federal governments own calculations, has drained hundreds of billions of dollars from American consumers.

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has thrown down a decisive challenge to both hesitant Republicans and emboldened Democrats by ordering lawmakers back to Columbia for an extra legislative session on the state budget and congressional redistricting.