REPUBLICAN PARTY

The debt agreement, they say, violated a promise to cut spending that secured crucial support for U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

When Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina launched his campaign for the White House, the notoriously prickly former President Donald Trump welcomed his new competitor with open arms.

Race has emerged as a central issue, and a delicate one, in the 2024 presidential contest as the Republican Party fields one of its most racially diverse group of primary candidates ever.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is working to push past an embarrassing beginning to his presidential campaign.

A hard-right Pennsylvania state lawmaker says he will not challenge Democratic Sen. Bob Casey.

Searching for a budget deal amid the debt ceiling standoff, President Joe Biden says saving unspent COVID money is “on the table.”.

Chile seemed on the cusp of a progressive revolution last year when a committee dominated by leftists drafted a bold new constitution to replace the country’s dictatorship-era charter.

Some Republican officeholders in West Virginia are already revving up campaigns for governor in 2024.

The Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature has approved and sent to the governor a ban on nearly all abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy in response to last year’s overturning of Roe v. Wade at the U.S. Supreme Court.

North Carolina Republican legislative leaders say there is agreement within their chambers on backing a measure that would prohibit abortion in nearly all cases after roughly the first trimester of pregnancy.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is trying to steer the Republican Party away from Donald Trump and his 2020 election lies, but his state party shows little interest in moving on.

The South Carolina Senate is no closer to passing a near-total abortion ban than the last time they shot down the proposal.

A draft of a report examining the Republican Party’s struggles in last year’s midterms says the results show that voters aren’t interested in “relitigating previous elections” and that failing to heed those warnings could harm the GOP in 2024 and beyond.

House Republicans are pushing their debt ceiling package toward a vote.

A proposed change to next year’s Montana U.S. Senate primary that was aimed at undermining Democratic Sen. Jon Tester’s reelection chances is likely dead.

Former Vice President Mike Pence is ramping up his criticism of fellow Republicans, trying to paint his would-be rivals as straying from party principles as he inches closer to an expected presidential run.

Libertarians lined up with Democrats on Friday against a proposal that would effectively block third party candidates from next year’s Montana U.S. Senate election.

North Carolina Republicans have filed a flurry of bills aimed at transgender youth as they look to capitalize on their newly attained supermajority.

A Democrat in the North Carolina state House has switched to the Republican Party in a move that gives the GOP veto-proof control of both chambers of the legislature.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says he opposes repeal of the 2002 and 1991 authorizations of force against Iraq, arguing that that authority “bears directly on the threats we face today in Iraq and Syria from Iran-backed terrorists.”.

House Republicans have narrowly passed legislation that would fulfill a campaign promise to give parents a role in what’s taught in public schools.

From almost the moment he first rode down the escalator in Trump Tower, a question has loomed over the Republican Party: Is this the moment to break from Donald Trump.

Donald Trump may hold a tight grasp on much of the Republican base, but there's a notable minority of GOP voters who don’t consider themselves members of his “Make America Great Again” movement.

The Colorado Republican Party has selected a combative former state representative who promised to be a “wartime” leader as its new chairman.

Incidents increased by 61% in Texas and 38% nationally last year, driven by what experts say is an increasing normalization of extremism in political discourse.

Election officials in Florida, Missouri and West Virginia say they are withdrawing from a bipartisan, multistate effort aimed at ensuring the accuracy of voter rolls that has found itself in the crosshairs of conspiracy theories fueled by Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 presidential election.

A bipartisan effort among states to combat voter fraud has found itself in the crosshairs of conspiracy theories fueled by Donald Trump’s false claim about the 2020 presidential election and now faces an uncertain future.

Leading Republicans took veiled jabs at Donald Trump at an annual gathering of conservatives as they urged a party course correction ahead of the 2024 presidential contest.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump are each headed to Iowa in the coming weeks, making their first trips of the year to the leadoff Republican voting state as the 2024 campaign ramps up.

A handful of congressional Republicans has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a signal of continued U.S. support, even as hard-right members of the party vow to block future aid to the embattled country.

A liberal Milwaukee judge and a conservative former state Supreme Court justice have won Tuesday’s primary to face off in a Wisconsin Supreme Court race that will determine majority control.

A conservative tilt on the Wisconsin Supreme Court has given Republicans victories in high-stakes cases in recent years, from voting restrictions to gerrymandered legislative districts.

A longtime North Carolina Republican congressman who served briefly in the Senate in the mid-1980s has died.

Republican presidential candidates will be blocked from the debate stage this summer if they do not sign a pledge to support the GOP’s ultimate presidential nominee.

President Joe Biden is taking direct aim at Republicans who have floated cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

When President Joe Biden suggested that Republicans want to slash Medicare and Social Security it brought howls of protests from the GOP side of the aisle during the State of the Union address.

House Speaker Dade Phelan selected Democrats to chair eight of the 34 standing committees, down from the 13 he appointed at the start of the last legislative session.

When lawmakers gather for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, the Republican side of the aisle will look slightly different than in years past.

Harry Whittington, the man who former Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot while they were hunting quail on a Texas ranch 17 years ago, has died.

Emboldened anti-abortion activists are looking to the next presidential election as an opportunity to solidify their influence over the Republican Party.

The presidential campaign landscape in Iowa is markedly different this year compared with four years ago.

Republican lawmakers who've spread election conspiracy theories and falsely claimed that the 2020 presidential outcome was rigged are overseeing legislative committees charged with setting election policy in two major battleground states.

Three weeks into the new era of the House Republican majority, the risks of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s leadership style are clearly taking hold.

Ronna McDaniel has become the longest serving leader of the Republican National Committee since the Civil War.

Utah is among a group of states considering limiting transgender kids from receiving certain health care, including puberty blockers, hormones and surgery.

Conrad Striegl, 73 and Cari Rene Leith, 62, were each charged with fraudulent securing of document execution between $2,500 and $30K, 198th Judicial District Court records obtained by KSAT show.

What others see as dysfunction and chaos, many of Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s opponents see as democracy at work.

The House will convene Tuesday to elect a speaker for the new Congress.

Black voters have been a steady foundation for Democratic candidates for decades, but that support appeared to show a few cracks in this year’s elections.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has delivered another rebuke of Donald Trump, saying anyone who thinks the Constitution can be suspended would have a “very hard time” becoming president in the United States.

Republican critics say conservative priorities will always be hamstrung if Democrats, who are in the minority party, get a say in which legislation reaches the floor.

Donald Trump is betting he can win his way back to the White House by reviving the outsider appeal that fueled his success in 2016.

The Republican National Committee is moving forward with a new post-election audit designed to examine the GOP’s underwhelming performance in the recent midterms and the party’s broader struggles since former President Donald Trump rose to power.

Early in-person voting for the nation's last U.S. Senate seat is underway statewide in Georgia.

A second Republican-controlled Arizona county, Mohave, has delayed certifying results of this month's election.

Republicans insist they’re working together to help Herschel Walker unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in next month's Georgia runoff.

Republicans have won control of the U.S. House, returning the party to power in Washington and giving conservatives leverage to blunt President Joe Biden’s agenda and spur a flurry of investigations.

With Republicans just one win away from gaining control of the House, Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is maneuvering to lock up support to become the next House speaker.

The third-ranking House Republican, Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, is endorsing Donald Trump for president in 2024.

Former President Donald Trump is moving forward with his planned Tuesday announcement, pressing on with a third presidential run.

In conservative Kansas and Kentucky, voters turned out in droves and crossed party lines to support abortion access. In Texas — where candidates, not issues, were on the ballot — there was no such surge in support.

Facing tremendous political headwinds, the Democrats fought Republicans to a stunning midterm draw.

While the GOP focuses on the border and economy under President Joe Biden, Democrats are hoping to prove polls and political forecasters wrong by tapping into anger over the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the Uvalde school shooting.

American voters are fractured politically and culturally ahead of Election Day, and they are anxious about where their country is heading — on inflation, abortion, immigration, crime, and much more.

All 50 states are hosting midterm elections that will determine the balance of power in Washington and state capitals across the nation.

The elected leaders of an Arizona county have rejected a proposal to expand their hand-counts of ballots from next week’s election.

A shortage of poll workers has concerned local election officials across the country as the midterm elections approach.

Six days before major midterm elections, President Joe Biden is imploring voters to save American democracy from Trump supporters' election-denying lies and the violence that he says they have inspired.

Republicans are increasingly confident in Senate candidates who party leaders had once believed were essentially unelectable or at least seriously flawed.

The stakes in elections for a pair of North Carolina Supreme Court seats this fall are high.

Democrats hope population growth and Republican infighting will help them win in the state’s third-most-populous county — and finally break through in statewide races.

With Election Day 12 days away, efforts are already underway in courtrooms across the country to sow doubt over the outcome.

Two weeks of early voting started Saturday in Nevada, one of the most competitive states in this year’s midterm elections.

Republican activists who believe the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump have crafted a plan that, in their telling, will thwart cheating in this year’s midterm elections.

Republican commissioners in one rural New Mexico county have tried everything they can think of to persuade voters that their elections are secure.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has warned against the growing populist tide in the Republican Party as he admonished “Putin apologists” unwilling to stand up to the Russian leader over his assault on Ukraine.

Polling shows that a majority of voters in Texas oppose the state’s near-total ban on abortion, but they ranked the topic ninth on a list of most important issues facing the country.

U.S. Senator Mike Lee has used a debate with his challenger Monday evening to try to draw a distinction between his record and former President Donald Trump's.

A new poll shows 71% of voters think the future of the country is at stake when they vote in November's midterm elections.

Republican New York Rep. Chris Jacobs is not seeking reelection amid backlash over his support for an assault weapons ban.

Voters in some battleground states will be deciding ballot proposals this November that could reshape the way they vote in the 2024 presidential election.

Texas Democrats are embarking on another October blitz in pursuit of flipping America’s big red state.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene once was shunned as a political pariah for her extremist rhetoric.

The event came as a younger, more diverse generation of Americans increasingly flocks to the left of the Democratic Party.

See every candidate, race on the ballot for the March 1 Republican primary in Bexar County.

The enthusiasm for Donald Trump’s brand of nationalist populism has cut into traditional Democratic strongholds in places such as Monongahela in western Pennsylvania.

Local election officials across the United States are bracing for a wave of confrontations on Election Day in November.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision striking down a constitutional right to abortion and sending the issue to the states has groups on both sides of the debate focusing more than ever on races this fall for state supreme courts.

The Georgia State Election Board held a meeting Wednesday meant to reassure board members and the general public that the state’s elections remain secure following a breach of voting equipment in one county.

A court filing says a former Republican Party official in Georgia who was a fake elector in 2020 misrepresented her role in an alleged breach of voting equipment at a rural elections office after the presidential election.

Democrats are pumping an unprecedented amount of money into advertising related to abortion rights.

Flores’ district director, Aron Peña, was accused of touching and kissing an intern without her consent. He denies any wrongdoing.

President Joe Biden’s popularity has improved substantially from his lowest point this summer, but concerns about his handling of the economy persist.

Among voters near the Texas-Mexico border, immigration and border security are a leading cause for flipping from Democrat to Republican.

Four Republicans who have promoted false claims about the 2020 presidential election and are seeking to overhaul how elections are run by becoming their state’s chief election official say they are fighting against a corrupt system.

An Associated Press review has found that nearly 1 in 3 Republican candidates for statewide offices that play a role in overseeing, certifying or defending elections supported overturning the 2020 presidential election.

In his second attempt to oust the incumbent, Collier is actively courting Republican voters who are turned off by the Legislature’s hard-right turn in recent years.

The great red wave is looming.

It's Donald Trump's first rally of the general election season, a Saturday night event in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with Republican candidates in the pivotal state.

Holding little back, President Joe Biden is sounding an alarm about what he views as extremist threats to the nation’s democracy from what he views as the evil force of Trumpism.