SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico Senate Majority Floor Leader Peter Wirth announced Tuesday he is stepping down from the post in 2027 and won’t seek reelection in 2028. Wirth, a Democrat from state Senate ...

Most Americans see the government as more wasteful than a year ago, despite efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to cut back on government spending and downsize the federal workforce, ...

BRUSSELS, June 21 (Reuters) - Up to two thirds of British voters, across all party lines, believe Britain's decision to leave the European Union in 2016 has had a negative impact on the country, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A once-unthinkable outcome is now a live discussion among Democrats: whether they truly need to win Maine to flip the Senate in ...

PERRY, Ga. — A longtime Central Georgia political leader died late Tuesday night. Larry Walker Jr., Georgia House majority leader and a big proponent in the making of the Georgia National Fairgrounds ...

SEATTLE — In July 2025, President Donald Trump signed the Big Beautiful Bill into law. It’s estimated to cut federal Medicaid spending by $1 trillion over the next decade. Washington state spends ...

After the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act in late April, Republican lawmakers across the South scrambled to redraw their states’ congressional maps. The effort angered many Black ...

Accounting firm Crowe agreed to sell a stake to KKR, the latest in a wave of private-equity investments across the industry as firms seek capital to speed up their AI adoption and expansion efforts.

Nearly two dozen candidates backed by the Brooklyn Can’t Wait coalition – a group spearheaded by progressive reform club New Kings Democrats – won district leader races in the borough Tuesday night, ...

U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson ruled Wednesday that the plaintiffs in Harris v. DeSoto County did not provide enough evidence that DeSoto County district maps were drawn to intentionally dilute ...

MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump continues to be a polarizing figure nationally and locally, as evidenced by a new KARE 11-Minnesota Star Tribune-U of M Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass ...