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By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A judge says that the agency tasked with finding a prosecutor to take over the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others can have a little more time, but not as much time as it wanted. What will happen to the case has been

The Associated Press A grand jury has indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on a fraud charge, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday. It is the latest indication of President Donald Trump and his administration’s determination to use the Justice Department to pursue the president’s political foes. James

By OLIVIA DIAZ, STEVE PEOPLES and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia gubernatorial candidates Republican Winsome Earle-Sears and Democrat Abigail Spanberger faced off Thursday for the first and only time on the debate stage in a fiery affair that was combative from the very first answer. Earle-Sears, perceived by operatives in both

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO and SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press A judge on Thursday blocked the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area for at least two weeks, finding no substantial evidence that a “danger of rebellion” is brewing in Illinois during Trump’s immigration crackdown. It’s a victory for Democratic officials who lead the state

By STEPHEN GROVES, MARY CLARE JALONICK and MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The consequences of a government shutdown setting in, senators labored Thursday to find a way forward but found themselves struggling to overcome a fundamental lack of trust between the two parties. Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Thursday afternoon floated an

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Democratic Rep. Katie Porter gained a reputation on Capitol Hill for grilling corporate executives at House hearings, white board in hand. But it was Porter — now a candidate for California governor — who found herself growing edgy under questioning by a TV

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says he wants to save Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex that has become a symbol of dysfunction in the city’s criminal justice system. The city is legally required to shutter its jails on Rikers and replace them with four smaller, more modern

By WILL WEISSERT and EVAN VUCCI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was holding a roundtable event with conservative influencers about antifa when Secretary of State Marco Rubio, standing in the back corner of the White House’s Blue Room, caught his eye. He had news for Trump, he said, but it would have

By STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans voted down legislation Wednesday that would have put a check on President Donald Trump’s ability to use deadly military force against drug cartels after Democrats tried to counter the administration’s extraordinary assertion of presidential war powers to destroy vessels in the

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff is building a cash hoard even as he is already spending heavily on his 2026 reelection campaign. Ossoff, the only Democrat seeking reelection next year from a state that President Donald Trump won in 2024, said Wednesday that he raised more than

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said Wednesday he was troubled that partisanship seemed to be “creeping its way into the court,” and that the state of political discourse in the country has gotten so vulgar and vile that he worries for the country. The tone of

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed ready Wednesday to revive a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, which have been a target of President Donald Trump. The justices are considering the narrower issue of whether a GOP congressman has the legal

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — One of three Tennessee lawmakers who drew national attention in 2023 when Republicans in the Tennessee Legislature moved to expel them following a gun control protest is running for Congress, he announced Wednesday. Democratic state Rep. Justin Pearson went to a Memphis park near the neighborhood

By The Associated Press President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago. The officials said they would not be deterred. National Guard troops from Texas are now positioned outside Chicago, despite a

By SEJAL GOVINDARAO Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs launched her reelection bid Wednesday, outlining a practical rather than confrontational approach to campaigning in a swing state where she will need Republican support. Nationally, Democrats are looking to bounce back from sweeping losses in the 2024 election. In an exclusive interview

By MIKE CATALINI and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli repeatedly clashed during their second and final debate in the closely watched race for New Jersey governor Wednesday, butting heads over the federal government shutdown, Sherrill’s military records, President Donald Trump and the high cost

By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tours at the Capitol have come to a standstill. The House is keeping its doors closed, while the Senate repeated its loop Wednesday of failed votes to reopen the government. President Donald Trump is threatening to mass fire federal workers and

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press President Donald Trump’s efforts to send National Guard troops into U.S. cities — including Los Angeles; Portland, Oregon; and Chicago — over the objections of Democratic mayors and governors have prompted a host of questions about the president’s authority and who controls the Guard. A judge in California has ruled

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A judge Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from requiring recipients of federal teen pregnancy prevention grants to comply with Trump’s orders aimed at curtailing “radical indoctrination” and “gender ideology.” The ruling is a victory for three Planned Parenthood affiliates — in California, Iowa and New York — that sued

By The Associated Press President Donald Trump’s administration is warning Tuesday of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a government shutdown, reversing what has been longstanding policy for some 750,000 furloughed employees, according to a memo being circulated by the White House. The move was widely seen as a strongarm tactic to pressure

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul announced Tuesday that he will not run for governor, opting instead to seek a third term as the state’s top law enforcement official. The governor’s race is wide open after Democratic incumbent Tony Evers, 73, announced this summer that he

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press The Democratic governors of California and Illinois are threatening to leave the National Governors Association because of its silence on President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops across state lines despite objections from the receiving states’ leaders. “If we cannot come together, on a bipartisan

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Two men last weekend were wrongly charged under a far-reaching Florida immigration law that’s currently suspended by a judicial order, according to a Monday report from the state attorney general’s office. Both men were charged in separate instances in Bradenton under a Florida law that outlaws