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Vice President Vance will visit Maine on Thursday, as the Senate race between incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and likely Democratic nominee Graham Platner rolls on. Vance’s office said Tuesday that the vice president will visit Bangor, the third-most populous city in the state. While there, he will deliver remarks on the Trump administration’s “efforts...

Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee Chair Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Trump administration’s tenuous plans to fund key parts of the Pentagon’s $1.5 billion budget request and for alienating U.S. allies amid several major world conflicts. McConnell objected to putting crucial Pentagon programs — such as the Golden Dome...

Why on Earth would Democrats want to give these guys more power over elections? | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images If you’re a Democrat, ask yourself a simple question: When was the last time something got better after Brett Kavanaugh put his hands on it? Unfortunately, Jay Jones, the Democratic attorney general of Virginia, does not appear to have considered this question before he asked the US Supreme Court to get involved in his state’s fight over gerrymandering. If the Court actually buys one

Plus: the damage done by inclusionary zoning, total YIMBY victory at California gubernatorial forum, and Trump's reversion of build-to-rent

The civil liberties group, which long maintained that there is no constitutional right to arms, is singing a different tune at the Supreme Court.

In a stunning act of political partisanship, the Roberts Court on Monday night discarded its own precedents to green-light a last-ditch effort by Alabama to use a gerrymandered congressional map for the 2026 midterms. The move, which comes less than two weeks after the court destroyed the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais, will […]

'Illinois has districting criteria that violates the United States Constitution explicitly by elevating race as a primary purpose in legislative line drawing,' a new lawsuit alleges.

A new CNN poll on Tuesday found that 70 percent of Americans disapprove of how President Donald Trump is handling the economy. Notably, Trump never reached a 50 percent disapproval rate over the economy during the entire duration of his first term, according to CNN. The Tuesday poll found that 77 percent of respondents—including a […]

With March Madness expansion and a possible College Football Playoff expansion, the NCAA is ignoring fans right when its popularity matters most in Congress.

The seventh American killed in President Donald Trump’s ill-defined war on Iran was from Kentucky. Army Sergeant Benjamin N. Pennington, 26, died a week after he was injured during Iran’s March 1 missile attack on a US air base in Saudi Arabia. When his body arrived at Dover Air Force Base, Trump was not there. Two […]

Rep. Jen Kiggans, a Virginia Republican, is under fire after she agreed with a comment that Hakeem Jeffries should get his “cotton-picking hands off of Virginia.”