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Margaret Atwood has imagined apocalyptic disaster, Dystopian government and an author faking her own death.

Donald Trump and his former veep held dueling events for their favored candidates in the Georgia gubernatorial primary.

The New York attorney general’s office said Monday it subpoenaed Donald Trump’s longtime executive assistant and plans to question her under oath next week as part of its civil investigation into the former president's business dealings. The subpoena for Rhona Graff was disclosed by a lawyer for Attorney General Letitia James’ office in court papers opposing Trump's latest bid to rid himself of a contempt of court order for being slow to respond to a subpoena for documents and other evidence. Graff's deposition is scheduled for May 31, special litigation counsel Andrew Amer said in the court filing.

David McCormick’s campaign is suing in a Pennsylvania court over his neck-and-neck Republican primary contest for the U.S. Senate against celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz. McCormick is trying to ensure counties obey a brand-new federal appeals court decision.

The 2020 election is being reprised in the gubernatorial primary in Georgia.

The House Ethics Committee is investigating allegations that Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn had a conflict of interest in a cryptocurrency he promoted and engaged in an improper relationship with a member of his staff.

Former Vice President Mike Pence is making an in-person push for Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.

President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States has a “commitment” to help Taiwan militarily if China invades.

Manchin went back and forth with GOP Sen. Roger Wicker. He also raised fresh hope of striking a deal on Biden's stalled agenda.

Republican Senate hopefuls in Alabama are making last-minute pitches to primary voters in the tight race for the GOP nomination for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Richard Shelby.

A Florida law intended to punish social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter for allegedly discriminating against conservative thought is an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment.

A federal appeals court is being asked to reconsider its decision allowing the Biden administration to require that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The battle for the Republican Party is entering a new phase, and Rep. Liz Cheney sounded the first shot of it on Sunday evening, saying, “We face a threat we have never faced before: a former president attempting to unravel our constitutional republic. At this moment we must all summon the courage to stand against that.”

Every speech that the governor of Georgia gives is intended as a little shove, to push the former President a little more emphatically into the past.

The flailing effort to pin the investigation on Clinton lacks evidence.

"In retrospect, it's hard to understand David's campaign, and it's certainly not the campaign those of us who were for him expected," Gingrich told The New York Times of Perdue's race.

Ilya Shapiro, author of 'Supreme Disorder,' says he would be shocked if the Supreme Court handed down a ruling that didn't reverse Roe v. Wade after the draft opinion was leaked.

One of the most politically powerful families in Michigan – the DeVos family – is putting their endorsement behind Tudor Dixon to be Michigan’s next governor. Dixon is one of 10 Republican candidates vying to challenge Gov. It’s time for a change in leadership in this state.”The DeVos family helped found the Amway Corporation, which had $8.5 billion in sales in 2020, per Forbes. “Now we have a candidate for governor who is very popular, who is a fantastic, brilliant candidate, Tudor Dixon,” Trump said. RELATED STORIESGOP governor candidate boycotts debate, cites ‘extremist’ COVID policy5 of 10 Republican candidates invited to gubernatorial debate at Mackinac Policy Conference5 takeaways from Republican candidates for governor in first 2022 debate

Eubanks claims abortion and gay marriage are ‘outside the Christian moral order’

Iran’s hard-line president has vowed revenge over the killing of a senior Revolutionary Guard member who was gunned down in the heart of Tehran.

The Maryland governor is on a crusade to bring back Reaganism when his party’s embrace of Trumpism has never looked stronger.

Steve Mnuchin launched Liberty Capital, his own fund, while Jared Kushner launched Affinity Partners, shortly after leaving the Trump White House.

Biden was an outspoken supporter of the racial justice movement that arose after George Floyd died. Now he often speaks more about the need to fund and bolster the police.

When Samantha Zimmer of Houston, Texas reported to a dog rescue call, she discovered a hero dog who refused to leave his injured friend's side.

The former New York mayor lost it during the Celebrate Israel Parade in New York.

"If Martian attacks had come across the radar, he would have happily added them to his ever-bulging portfolio," Conway wrote of Kushner.

Georgia takes center stage in Tuesday’s primary elections as Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger try to fight back challengers endorsed by Donald Trump.

Georgia's Stacey Abrams has benefitted from being unopposed in the state's Democratic primary for governor by using the period to spread her message while Republicans have fought.

A Russian soldier who pleaded guilty to killing a Ukrainian civilian was sentenced to life in prison.

"There was no subject he considered beyond his expertise," she said of her former White House colleague.

President Joe Biden has launched a new trade deal with 12 Indo-Pacific nations aimed at strengthening their economies as he warns Americans worried about high inflation that it is “going to be a haul” before they feel relief.

"Any of my fellow Republicans wanna speak out now?" GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger said of the incendiary post.

Conway is also among the relatively small group of staffers who managed to leave the White House still in Trump’s inner circle. Conway also takes fleeting aim at Paul Manafort, the short-lived chair of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. “No masks was standard fare in the White House Situation Room, where Dr. Fauci was more likely to wear ‘Dr. AdvertisementNevertheless, Conway manages to ascend to the White House with Trump. And it wasn’t George Conway.

Trump kept claiming voter fraud even though Barr told him the 2020 presidential election wasn't stolen, former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said.

Republican Katie Arrington’s suspended security clearance is becoming an issue in her primary campaign against incumbent South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace.

After losing a high-profile bid for a South Carolina congressional seat in 2018, Republican Katie Arrington took a job at the Defense Department, where she focused on securing military supply chains, ensuring thousands of companies that contract with the federal government were implementing cybersecurity protocols. Arrington's civil servant work as chief information officer for the Acquisition and Sustainment Office was in line with what she characterizes as her longtime passion for cybersecurity and defense. Freshman GOP Rep. Nancy Mace, whom Arrington hopes to defeat in South Carolina's June 14 primary, is calling on Arrington to take a lie detector test about why she lost access to classified information. A Mace-funded, anti-Arrington website, meanwhile, has sections labeled “Leaks Classified Information” and "Busted: Loses Her Security Clearance.”

Gov. Asa Hutchinson is Arkansas' top Republican and is entering the final stretch of his term with strong approval ratings.

Based on the barrage of television ads and mailers leading up to Tuesday's primary election in Arkansas, it's obvious who the most influential Republicans in the state are. Tom Cotton's making the case for fellow Sen. John Boozman, talking up his conservative bona fides while the two-term senator fends off challenges from the right. Donald Trump's image appears in ads for Boozman and for Sarah Sanders, who served as the former president's White House press secretary and is now running for governor.

Kristina Karamo was an unknown poll worker who claimed the 2020 election was fraudulent. Now, she’s the Republican candidate for secretary of state.

The retirements of Pelosi, Biden, McConnell and Trump wouldn't be enough to break the boomer curse.

GOP governors hatched a plan months ago that will culminate in a closely-watched gubernatorial primary on Tuesday.

Kellyanne Conway says that Donald Trump had doubts about the 2016 race after the "Access Hollywood" tape was leaked, per her book, "Here's the Deal."

NPR asked 36 people in Democratic-leaning Gwinnett County and Republican-leaning Forsyth County, Ga., what's on their minds heading into the midterms. Their answers are relevant to the entire country.

President Joe Biden tended to both business and security interests as he wrapped up a three-day visit to South Korea on Sunday.

The former New York mayor is seen as a critical aide for the committee, which has interviewed nearly 1,000 witnesses.

Testimony in the trial of lawyer Michael Sussmann shows how the FBI worried about being “played” in the wake of the 2016 probe of Hillary Clinton’s emails.

Two Republican frontrunners are hoping to clinch primary victories in Georgia.

Russia responded to sanctions for invading Ukraine by saying Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Mark Zuckerberg and hundreds more can't visit.

MAGA world would rather sit out the Georgia governor's race in November than vote for the incumbent who certified President Joe Biden's 2020 win.

Australia’s prime minister conceded defeat late on Saturday after an election that could deliver a minority government. (May 21)

Alabama’s Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby is a bitter high-dollar fight between three candidates.

Alabama’s Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby has become a bitter high-dollar contest with the three strongest contenders jockeying for the nomination. The leading candidates are U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks who won — and then lost — former President Donald Trump’s backing in the race; Katie Boyd Britt, the former leader of Business Council of Alabama and Shelby’s former chief of staff; and Mike Durant, an aerospace company owner best known as the helicopter pilot whose capture during a U.S. military mission in Somalia was chronicled in the “Black Hawk Down" book and subsequent movie. David Mowery, an Alabama-based political consultant said the race has an up-for-grabs feel.

Wisconsin Republicans agreed Saturday to have a “no endorsement” option when voting on whether to throw the party's official backing behind a candidate in the hotly contested governor's race. The top candidates in the governor's race were slated to make their pitch later Saturday for an endorsement to more than 1,500 delegates attending the annual convention near Madison. Winning the endorsement requires support from 60% of delegates.

The U.S. is more dangerously divided than any other wealthy democracy. Is there a way back from the brink?

Pence edges up the list as he places a big Georgia bet against Trump — one that seems likely to pay off.

The populist energy within the Republican Party goes by the name the former president gave it: MAGA. And its influence on the 2022 midterms seems destined to track that of the Tea Party surge in 2010.

For some female incumbents running for reelection in Congress this year, holding their seats comes with a new challenge.

Herschel Walker boasts of his charity work helping members of the military who struggle with mental health.

The Summit of the Americas is a little more than two weeks away in Los Angeles, and there's still no clear answer on which countries are going.

A likely recount would mean that the race between Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick might not be decided until June 8, the deadline for counties to report their results to the state.

Judge Robert Summerhays ruled the CDC did not properly end Title 42, which allows U.S. border officials to quickly expel migrants.

Michigan’s top election official, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, says former President Donald Trump called for her arrest and execution in the wake of his slim loss in Michigan in 2020. Benson told NBC News that a source familiar with a White House meeting after the election told her Trump said in that meeting she should be arrested for treason and possibly killed. “I have it on good authority that Secretary Benson knowingly lied throughout her interview with NBC News,” Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich told the outlet for its story. Karamo has said the 2020 election was stolen from Trump and that Benson should be investigated and jailed. The Secretary’s duties include advising and directing local election officials, investigating election law violations and policing candidate and petition registration.

Convicted California lawyer Michael Avenatti wants leniency at sentencing for defrauding former client Stormy Daniels.

The billionaire GOP donor, the biggest backer of Elon Musk’s attempted Twitter takeover, participated along with Fox’s Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participant.

Newly discovered emails show that Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was more deeply involved in baseless efforts to overturn the 2020 election than previously known.

It's hard not to see new reports about Ginni Thomas's efforts to subvert the 2020 election outside of Clarence Thomas's recent chiding about Roe v. Wade.

A $10,000 per day fine against Trump could be reinstated if he does not meet the conditions required to lift a contempt-of-court finding.

Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for an open U.S. Senate seat is too close to call and is likely headed for a statewide recount to decide the winner of the contest between heart surgeon-turned-TV celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick.

Former President Donald Trump has paid the $110,000 in fines he racked up after being held in contempt of court for being slow to respond to a civil subpoena issued by New York’s attorney general.

Former President Donald Trump has paid the $110,000 in fines he racked up after being held in contempt of court for being slow to respond to a civil subpoena issued by New York’s attorney general. Trump paid the fine Thursday but must still submit additional paperwork in order to have the contempt order lifted, the office of Attorney General Letitia James said Friday. A Manhattan judge declared Trump in contempt of court on April 25 and fined him $10,000 per day for not complying with a subpoena in James’ long-running investigation into his business practices.

The once solid red and now battleground state was pivotal in deciding the 2020 presidency and the control of the U.S. senate.

In a legal filing, Eastman tries to cast fraud concerns as legitimate. The evidence he cites to do so is not good.

In sending the emails, Thomas played a role in the extraordinary scheme to keep Trump in office by substituting the will of legislatures for the will of voters. “Article II of the United States Constitution gives you an awesome responsibility: to choose our state’s Electors,” read the Nov. 9 email. “Before you choose your state’s Electors ... consider what will happen to the nation we all love if you don’t stand up and lead,” the email said. Efforts to persuade state lawmakers to name new electors are among the issues under examination by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Thomas sent the emails via freeroots.com, a website meant to give political organizers an efficient means of conducting email campaigns.

Tesla and SpaceX chief executive officer Elon Musk has met with Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro to discuss connectivity and other projects in the Amazon rainforest.

Georgia's senior congressman is facing his toughest challenge from Republicans in more than a decade.

BRANDON BELLPresident Donald Trump was so deeply involved in the desperate, last-ditch effort to overturn the 2020 election results that he hand-wrote strategy notes, hired at least ten lawyers to work on just one court case, and spoke regularly with one of his lead lawyers both directly and through six conduits.John Eastman, the law professor tapped by Trump to craft a legal strategy to keep him in power, detailed those extensive communications in a new court filing late Thursday as he argued i

Two days after U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn lost his reelection campaign, the first-term North Carolina Republican called on a political movement to put a more vengeful former President Donald Trump back in power and seek revenge on his enemies. “It’s time for the rise of the new right, it’s time for Dark MAGA to truly take command,” Cawthorn wrote on Instagram. “We have an enemy to defeat, but we will never be able to defeat them until we defeat the cowardly and weak member of our own party. Cawthorn lost Tuesday night to N.C. Sen. Chuck Edwards, who challenged him in the 11th Congressional District primary. Cawthorn conceded the election before the race was called and went silent on social media until Thursday afternoon.

Japan is welcoming a new U.S. economic initiative for the Indo-Pacific that President Joe Biden is expected to roll out during a visit to Tokyo next week because it demonstrates American commitment to a regional economic order that is not just about market access.

President Joe Biden hopes to use his visit to Asia to confirm his belief that long-standing friendships can afford to become even friendlier — and pay dividends.

The Senate has whisked a $40 billion package of military, economic and food aid for Ukraine and U.S. allies to final congressional approval.

U.S. President Joe Biden will meet South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol this week as the allies face a growing threat from North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile program.

The congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection sent a letter to another House Republican in an effort to learn more about a tour he led of the building the day before the deadly attack.

Vote counting in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate has dragged into a third day as Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick remain essentially tied with tens of thousands of ballots left to tally.

Prosecutors in a western Colorado county say they found no evidence of tampering in the 2020 presidential election as alleged by a clerk who has become a prominent voice among those promoting former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election.

The star prosecution witness in the trial of a Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer charged with lying to the FBI says he was “100%” confident that the attorney told him he was not acting on behalf of a particular client when he presented information meant to cast suspicions on Donald Trump and possible connections to Russia.

Alabama’s Republican primary has become a race to the right, with candidates staking out extreme positions on abortion, immigration and LGBTQ issues.

President Joe Biden is off to South Korea and Japan on a six-day trip aimed at building rapport with the Asian nations’ leaders.

The Senate has confirmed Bridget Brink as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

Counting of mailed ballots in Pennsylvania is drawing renewed scrutiny amid a too-close-to-call U.S. Senate primary between Republicans David McCormick and Dr. Mehmet Oz. Former President Donald Trump blasted the state’s elections procedures on social media, even though there are no indications of any wrongdoing with those ballots other than a printing error that was slowing the tally in one county.

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign did not authorize a lawyer to meet with the FBI and provide information that was meant to cast suspicions on rival candidate Donald Trump and possible connections to Russia.

Doug Mastriano is not the only candidate who won a Republican primary on Tuesday after embracing former President Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen.

Convicted pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli has been freed from prison after serving much of a seven-year prison sentence for lying to hedge fund investors and cheating investors in a drug company.

President Joe Biden embarks for Asia on Thursday facing a new risk for the economy at home: a global economic slowdown caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the pandemic shutting down Chinese cities and factories.

Chris Wallace, the most prominent personality lured to the since-shuttered CNN+ streaming service, will host an interview show on Sunday nights on the television network starting this fall.

After a nearly 2-1/2-year hiatus, the Swiss town of Davos is set to again host global elites from business, government and activist groups for the World Economic Forum.

Heart surgeon-turned-TV celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick are locked in a too-early-to-call race for the Republican nomination to fill an open Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat.

The megadrought fueled by climate change that has long gripped the western U.S. is moving eastward.

Former President Donald Trump’s influence was enough to elevate his Senate candidate to victory in North Carolina on Tuesday.

A new report says decisions by Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan were the key factors in the collapse of that nation’s military, leading to the Taliban takeover last year.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is rejecting a request from the Justice Department for access to the committee’s interviews, for now.