Former President Donald Trump blew away the competition in Sunday’s Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll, winning with 70 percent of the vote. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis came in second place at 21 percent. The rest of the contenders only got one percent or less of the votes each. The ones that got one percent…

In a 6-3 ruling, Supreme Court reversed lower court rulings on challenges to two voting restrictions in Arizona Thursday. One rejects ballots cast in the wrong precinct. The other limits who can deliver ballots on someone else’s behalf to family, caregivers, mail carriers and elections officials. An appellate court struck down the restrictions as racially…

New York City officials are expected to take a second crack at reporting preliminary results of the city’s Democratic mayoral primary Wednesday. Their first attempt was marred by an error in which the city’s Board of Elections accidentally included 135,000 test ballots that weren’t meant to be counted. The city is trying ranked choice voting…

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday she was “glad to be here” on her first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border as leader of the Biden administration’s response to a migration spike that’s drawn fire from Republicans and made fellow Democrats uncomfortable. “It was always the plan to come here, and…

NEW YORK (AP) — An appeals court suspended Rudy Giuliani from practicing law in New York because he made false statements while trying to get courts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the presidential race. An attorney disciplinary committee said in its motion to suspend Giuliani’s license that there was “uncontroverted evidence” that Giuliani had…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — American authorities seized a range of Iran’s state-linked news website domains they accused of spreading disinformation, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday, a move that appeared to be a far-reaching crackdown on Iranian media amid heightened tensions between the two countries. The Justice Department said 33 of the seized…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democrats’ sweeping attempt to rewrite U.S. election and voting law stalled in the Senate Tuesday, blocked by a wall of Republican opposition to what would have been the largest overhaul of the electoral system in a generation. The bill, known as the For the People Act, would touch on virtually every…

President Joe Biden is expected to address rising violent crime rates Wednesday, when he announces an anti-crime plan. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said part of the plan will focus on gun violence and gun safety in the country. The announcement comes as the U.S. murder rate increased from 2019 to 2020. A sample…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democrats’ expansive elections and voting bill is all but certain to be rejected in a key test vote in the Senate, providing a dramatic example of Republicans’ use of the filibuster to block legislation and forcing hard questions for Democrats over next steps. The far-reaching proposal, at nearly 900 pages, is…

Speaking to a conservative radio show host Monday, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said President Joe Biden would most likely not get a Supreme Court pick confirmed in 2024 if Republicans take over the Senate in 2022. “I don’t think either party, if it were different from the president, would confirm a Supreme Court…