Associated Press

Hate crimes in the United States rose from 2022 to 2023.

Cao is a former U.S Navy captain.

Kiggans has flirted with baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

Ohio voted to protect abortion rights. GOP senate candidate Bernie Moreno doesn't care.

Syngenta AG owns approximately 1500 acres of U.S farmland.

Hovde is running for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin despite primarily residing in California.

McCormick says we need leaders with the moral clarity to condemn antisemitism.

Of the nearly dozen gun bills lawmakers will soon take up, one is particularly noteworthy because it’s backed by unlikely allies: mental health advocates and a pair of House members who’ve long been at opposite ends of firearm legislation.

The United Auto Workers of America endorsed the re-election of President Joe Biden Wednesday, just months after he became the first sitting U.S. president to walk a picket line with striking autoworkers in Michigan.

Gunter has repeatedly referred to Brown as “Scam Brown”

The state of Texas robbed Amanda Zurawski of her fertility and almost her life when it wouldn’t permit her an abortion so she’s gone to the state’s Supreme Court to change the law - “this is why I’m on earth”

Health care-focused organizations across the state are hopeful that the 2024 legislative session will be a year that reins in health costs and allows patients to have greater access to the care they need.

Five people died on January 6, 2021 – including a police officer who was bludgeoned to death.

On Wednesday, the New Hampshire House passed a bill that would make registering to vote an online experience. 

Most Americans believe wealthy individuals and big corporations don’t pay their fair share in taxes.

Even the Republican senator's home county gave Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear a larger share of the vote than four years earlier.

Republicans Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton have taken thousands of dollars in donations from chemical companies and their affiliated PACs.

Eric Hovde's proposal is similar to Sen. Rick Scott's unpopular 2022 plan to make every American pay income taxes.

A bipartisan package of bills in Michigan signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, creates specified criminal penalties for assaulting health care workers.

Both former President Donald Trump and former U.S. Rep. George Santos have lied about their records and been accused of defrauding veterans.

Millions of Texas families’ health and well-being would be jeopardized if the legislation were repealed.

More than 3 million Floridians will lose their health insurance if Scott and Trump succeed.

Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves took $98,000 from Mississippi Power and executives of its parent company.

The Republican gubernatorial nominee also broke his promises to make the office more frugal.

It might not surprise Mississippians that The Cook Political Report, regarded as one of the nation’s preeminent elections experts, shifted their 2023 Mississippi governor’s race forecast on Monday in Democrat Brandon Presley’s direction.

Administration officials have said these additional junk fees can inflate prices and waste people's time.

The incident is just the latest in a series of violent threats against public officials.

The California Republican told his conference that he would not run for the job again.

Congress came to agreement on a stopgap funding bill on Saturday, hours before the government was set to run out of money.

In choosing Butler on Sunday, Newsom fulfilled his pledge to appoint a Black woman if Feinstein’s seat became open.

Feinstein was a passionate advocate for important liberal priorities, including gun control and reproductive rights.

Pennsylvania resident Samuel Lazar’s conviction for his role in the Jan. 6 capitol riot was kept under seal with no explanation, even after his release from prison.

For the third time in less than eight months, a special election will decide partisan control of the narrowly divided Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

Nine men were convicted on charges connected with the plot, and now five have been cleared.

Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul said in a lawsuit that Senate Republicans don't have the authority to oust Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe and accused them of attacking the state's elections.

The United Auto Workers union and major automakers couldn't reach a deal over demands for better wages and benefits, prompting workers to walk off the job.

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said the Republican-controlled state Legislature 'cannot be trusted to appoint or oversee someone charged with drawing fair maps.'

The former president received his fourth indictment over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results under a law often used to target mobsters.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker pledged to sign the bill, which is part of an effort by Democratic state lawmakers to address gun violence.

The Supreme Court put a hold on a lower court ruling invalidating the regulation while the administration appeals.

“It’s all about revenge politics to keep Trump’s base,” says one independent voter.

With two weeks until the first debate of the 2024 GOP presidential primary, eight candidates have met the qualifications to be on stage.

'The map issue is really kind of easy, actually,' Justice Janet Protasiewicz said during a candidate debate. 'I don’t think anybody thinks those maps are fair. Anybody.'

'The attack on our nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy,' said Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith.

Janet Protasiewicz's April victory upended 15 years of conservative control of the state's highest court.

Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill on Thursday, which uses the state's consumer protection law to defend access to abortion.

The buoys are the latest escalation of Texas’ border security operation that also includes razor-wire fencing, arresting migrants on trespassing charges and sending busloads of asylum-seekers to Democratic-led cities in other states.

Peter Francis Stager struck the Metropolitan Police Department officer with his flagpole at least three times as other rioters pulled the officer, head first, into the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

One former regulator called the lack of protection from silica-related illnesses 'stunning' and one of the most 'catastrophic' occupational health failures in U.S. history.

Federico Guillermo Klein was convicted on 12 counts, including assaulting police officers.

Several other states have similar restrictions that are on hold pending court rulings.

The judge’s ruling came nearly a week after the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned an injunction halting enforcement of a similar law in Tennessee.

The agency received a new funding stream through the Inflation Reduction Act passed in August by Democrats.

Perrigo will begin shipping Opill in early 2024, but it hasn't announced the price of the new medication.

The administration said 26 million people had applied for relief under the plan and 43 million would have been eligible.