The Maryland Supreme Court says a congressional redistricting amendment backed by Democrats can appear on the November ballot.
Florida Republicans have settled on Byron Donalds, a congressman, as their candidate for governor, and that now makes eight Black major party nominees for governors this year.
Democratic voters have elevated a progressive Senate candidate in Florida, while Republican Rep. Byron Donalds, backed by President Donald Trump, won the GOP nomination as he vies to become the first Black governor of the state.
The Preakness Stakes is moving to three weeks and a day after the Kentucky Derby to be run on a Sunday for the first time.
Maryland voters will decide in November whether to clear the way for a new congressional map that would favor Democrats in all eight of the state’s U.S. House districts.
Maryland lawmakers have opened a special session to consider a first step in a partisan redistricting initiative that could help Democrats pick up an additional U.S. House seat by 2028.
Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland says he's concerned that President Trump might use federal power to influence the fall elections.
The National Urban League's latest “State of Black America” report warns that the American Dream may be slipping away for many Black Americans.
President Donald Trump will deliver a primetime address this week that he says will include a focus on elections.
Maryland lawmakers will meet for a special session next month to consider a constitutional amendment dealing with future congressional redistricting.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has successfully backed three allies in Democratic U.S. House primaries.
Maryland Democrat Adrian Boafo has advanced to November’s general election in the race to succeed his retiring former boss, U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer.
The Justice Department has filed a complaint against Washington, D.C., and its water authority for a massive sewage leak into the Potomac River.
President Donald Trump has again denied a request from Colorado’s governor to help people affected by wildfires and flooding.
A redistricting battle among states has reshaped voting districts for the U.S. House ahead of the November midterm elections.
A proposal for a new Maryland congressional map has officially died with the conclusion of the state's legislative session.
The Democratic Party’s leading 2028 presidential prospects are warning African Americans that President Donald Trump is actively working to undermine their right to vote in 2026.
Heading into the weekend, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to pay the tens of thousands of TSA officers who have been working without pay for over a month during a partial government shutdown.
Zamareya Jones scored 15 of her career-high 30 points in the first half to help build a double-digit lead and seventh-seeded North Carolina State went on to beat the slumping, 10th-seeded Tennessee 76-61 in the first round of March Madness.
Alabama marked the 61st anniversary of a key event in the Civil Rights Movement, when state troopers attacked voting rights marchers in Selma.
President Donald Trump has approved emergency assistance to Washington, D.C., to help the city address a sewage system leak that dumped at least 250 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River.
A partisan battle to redraw U.S. House districts is raging in some states, even though campaigning is underway.
The National Governors Association is pulling out of an annual meeting at the White House after President Donald Trump declined to invite two Democratic governors.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is pushing back on President Donald Trump while trying to rally Democrats in his state around a mid-decade redistricting fight.
New laws in some Democratic-led states are forcing local sheriffs to stop cooperating with President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement efforts.
President Donald Trump is lashing out at Maryland Gov. Wes Moore over what he says is as a lagging response to a January pipe rupture that sent sewage flowing into the Potomac River northwest of Washington.
Republicans and Democrats in some states are redrawing U.S. House districts to gain an advantage in the upcoming midterm elections.
A Virginia judge has ruled that a proposed constitutional amendment letting Democrats redraw the state’s Congressional maps was illegal.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is running for a second term in the pivotal battleground state after a first term that put him on the Democratic Party’s radar as a potential presidential contender in 2028.
Maryland will create a commission to study potential slavery reparations in the state, after lawmakers overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Wes Moore.
A gerrymandering battle is spreading among states after President Donald Trump pushed for new U.S. House districts ahead of next year's elections.
Federal investigators say the loss of electrical power from a loose wire caused a huge cargo ship to lose propulsion and steering before crashing into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse last year and killing six construction workers.
The leader of the Indiana state Senate, a Republican, has said that his chamber will no longer meet in December as planned to vote on redistricting, citing lack of support from his members.
The new congressional map approved by California voters marked a victory for Democrats in the national redistricting battle playing out ahead of the 2026 midterm election.
Democratic governors from California and Illinois are threatening to leave the National Governors Association unless it denounces President Donald Trump's troop deployments to states.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat who has been mentioned as a potential 2028 presidential candidate, has officially announced his reelection campaign for governor.
In a pointed show of solidarity against President Donald Trump, state and local leaders walked through one of Baltimore’s most historically underserved neighborhoods amid ongoing efforts to curb gun violence.
SiriusXM is giving a national boost to Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear's podcast, announcing it will begin distributing it and host Beshear for a regular call-in show on the satellite radio network.
President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the National Guard to Chicago and other big cities as a way to fight crime.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and other top Democrats are warning President Donald Trump to stay out of the cities they run.
Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms.
President Donald Trump is proudly promoting the work of roughly 2,000 National Guard troops in Washington to confront what the Republican president describes as an out-of-control crime wave in the Democratic-run city.
President Donald Trump's rhetoric in his federal takeover of Washington police echoes that of conservative politicians going back decades who've denounced American cities with majority non-white populations or progressive leaders as crime-ridden and in need of outside intervention.
Democrats are out of power in Washington but hold 23 governors' seats, including in five of the seven presidential battlegrounds Donald Trump swept last year.
Demolition crews are working to remove large sections of the remaining pieces of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge after its deadly collapse last year.
The voters in early presidential nominating states are used to seeing contenders months or even years before most of the country.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has launched a two-day tour in South Carolina, urging rural voters to stand up to President Donald Trump and challenge Republicans in the 2026 midterms.
Democratic Gov. Wes Moore has been saying for months that he doesn't plan to run for president in 2028.
An audit of Maryland autopsies has uncovered at least 36 in-custody police deaths that should have been considered homicides.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has signed a bill into law to make Maryland the first state to use money collected from a surcharge on insurance plans sold under the Affordable Care Act to pay for an abortion grant program.
Pete Buttigieg returned to Iowa with some messages about what’s changed since he ran in the state’s 2020 Democratic presidential caucuses.
Democrats will pick their next presidential nominee in 2028, but before that happens, the party will have to decide which state gets to go first on the nominating calendar.
Supporters of a measure to create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery in Maryland have rallied next to the Capitol and the governor’s residence to urge Gov. Wes Moore to sign the legislation.
Chris Van Hollen has emerged, for now, as a leading figure in the resistance to President Donald Trump.
Maryland lawmakers have passed a measure to try to limit future liabilities from claims of sexual abuse at state and private institutions.
In the 22 days since Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to a notoriously violent prison in El Salvador, his young autistic son has sought comfort in the scent of his missing father’s clothes.
Aneesah Morrow had 30 points and 19 rebounds, Kailyn Gilbert had a critical block that set up Mikaylah Williams' a go-ahead layup with 1:07 remaining, and No. 3 seed LSU rallied past second-seeded N.
A year after the catastrophic collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, Maryland leaders are honoring the six construction workers killed that night.
Tobacco Road is the center of the NCAA Tournament this week with three women’s first-round sites at Duke, North Carolina and N.
Maryland and 19 other states are suing multiple federal agencies in a lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump’s administration has illegally fired thousands of federal probationary workers.
Maryland officials have unveiled their designs for replacing Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge almost a year after it collapsed under the weight of a cargo ship that lost power and veered off course.
Baltimore is seeing a sustained reduction in gun violence and city leaders believe investments in robust anti-violence efforts are finally paying off.
The plunging polar vortex is bringing subfreezing temperatures to some of the southernmost points of the U.S. A forming storm system is threatening to dump snow on parts of Texas and Oklahoma, while communities in Louisiana and Florida may see frigid cold.
A major winter blast of snow, ice, wind and plunging temperatures in the U.S. stirred dangerous travel conditions from central and southern states all the way to the East Coast on Monday, prompting schools and government offices in several states to close.
A handful of prominent Democratic governors are quickly adjusting their approach to President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office in January.
Celebrities, cultural icons and a few surprise guests have paid tribute to honorees at the annual Kennedy Center Honors celebration in Washington.
TCU has its best ranking ever in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll after a convincing win over Notre Dame.
Republican and Democratic voters in Maryland largely agree on one thing: the state's U.S. Senate race between Republican Larry Hogan and Democrat Angela Alsobrooks has unusually high stakes this year.
The state of Maryland has added to the legal troubles facing the owner and operator of the container ship Dali, which caused the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after the massive vessel experienced an ill-timed electrical blackout and other failures.
The Supreme Court of Maryland is considering the constitutionality of a 2023 law that ended the state’s statute of limitations for child sexual abuse lawsuits following a report that exposed widespread wrongdoing within the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says he made “an honest mistake” in failing to correct a White House fellowship application 18 years ago when he wrote he had received a Bronze Star for his military service in Afghanistan that he never ended up receiving.
On the night she became the first woman of Black and South Asian heritage to be a major party’s nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t explicitly mention the racial and gender firsts she would set if elected to the White House.
Vice President Kamala Harris urged Americans to seize a “precious, fleeting opportunity” to move beyond political divisions and the threat of Republican Donald Trump on Thursday as she closed out the Democratic National Convention.
Gavin Newsom has emerged as President Joe Biden’s most prominent battleground-state soldier.
A Maryland board led by Gov. Wes Moore has approved a $50.3 million emergency contract with a company that removed debris from the March collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
