POLITICS

George Santos is gone from the House, but his name is certain to pop up in key congressional races across New York next year.

Leftists in Chile were tortured, tossed from helicopters and forced to watch relatives be raped during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

Ron DeSantis has completed his campaign promise to visit each of Iowa’s 99 counties.

The House is making history this year.

A federal judge has rejected Donald Trump’s effort to throw out his 2020 election subversion case in Washington, dismissing the Republican’s claims that he's immune from prosecution.

In wide-ranging interviews with The Associated Press, six sitting Black attorneys general discussed the challenges and opportunities of serving as the top law enforcement officer in their respective states.

An attorney for former President Donald Trump says it would amount to “election interference” if his client is the Republican nominee for president while on trial in Georgia in the months running up to the general election.

The chairman of most powerful independent group supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential ambitions has resigned.

President Joe Biden will head to Los Angeles next week for a big-dollar event that will be his first since strikes by writers and actors effectively ground his fundraising to a halt in the heart of the entertainment industry.

A federal appeals court says lawsuits against Donald Trump brought by Capitol Police officers and Democratic lawmakers over the U.S. Capitol riot can move forward.

The American legal system has never faced greater challenges or demands for reform from people of all races and across the political spectrum.

Vice President Kamala Harris will face two delicate tasks when she attends a climate summit this weekend in Dubai.

The House has voted to expel Republican Rep. George Santos of New York following a blistering ethics report on his conduct that included converting campaign donations for his own use.

The Republican National Committee’s rules for next year’s nominating contest and convention have been released, but a major question is unaddressed: Can delegates vote for a different candidate if the party’s presumptive nominee is convicted of a felony.

Donald Trump will be headlining a closed-door fundraiser in Florida next week as his Republican primary rivals return to the debate stage on Dec. 6.

A New York appeals court has reinstated a gag order that barred Donald Trump from commenting about court personnel after he disparaged a law clerk in his New York civil fraud trial.

In his closing arguments for remaining a member of the House, a defiant Rep. George Santos is depicting himself as a victim of a smear campaign by some of his colleagues.

Meta says it has found and disabled thousands of fake Facebook accounts linked to China that were used to spread politically partisan content in the United States before next year’s election.

In an alternate reality, the prime-time showdown between California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis could have been a preview of a 2024 general election debate.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley are increasingly outsourcing central parts of their campaigns.

A Virginia man has been arrested on charges that he stormed the U.S. Capitol while wearing a Captain America backpack and stole items from senators’ desks on the Senate floor during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

Deutsche Bank viewed Donald Trump as a “whale” of a client, wanted to land him and eagerly cultivated a relationship that grew from $13,000 worth of revenue to $6 million in two years.

In Colorado, President Joe Biden has said Rep_ Lauren Boebert was wrong to describe his policies as “a massive failure."

By now, Americans should be well aware that the process of electing a president isn’t like electing a senator or governor.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is expected to sign legislation in the coming days aimed at curbing deceptive uses of artificial intelligence and manipulated media.

Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers have suggested their strategy in his election interference case in Washington involves distancing him from the horde of U.S. Capitol rioters, whom he has embraced on the campaign trail.

A state lawmaker who's helping lead the effort to impeach Philadelphia’s elected prosecutor is the newest candidate for Pennsylvania attorney general.

Pennsylvania’s highest court is deliberating whether the Legislature can proceed with its impeachment trial against Philadelphia’s elected progressive prosecutor.

House lawmakers from both parties are moving to force a vote this week on the expulsion of Rep. George Santos, a Republican from New York.

A Deutsche Bank executive says the bank followed its own guidelines — which include independently verifying information — when deciding to lend Donald Trump’s company hundreds of millions of dollars.

The political arm of the powerful Koch network has endorsed Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign.

Former President Donald Trump's lawyers are arguing that he had a good faith basis to question the outcome of the 2020 election that he lost.

More cities across the U.S. are cracking down on homeless tent encampments that have grown more visible and become unsafe.

Nikki Haley says former President Donald Trump causes too much chaos to be successful in a second White House term.

For a year, New York’s Adult Survivors Act gave adults claiming they had been sexually assaulted a chance to file civil lawsuits, no matter how long ago the assaults occurred.

Former President Donald Trump says he wants to reopen the contentious fight over the Affordable Care Act.

Former President Donald Trump plans to testify again next month in his civil fraud trial.

President Joe Biden will convene the first meeting of his supply chain resilience council.

A hearing has begun to help determine whether a Georgia railroad can legally condemn property to build a rail line.

Experts in constitutional law and the military say the Insurrection Act gives presidents tremendous power with few restraints.

The family of Rosalynn Carter has begun three days of memorials for the former first lady and global humanitarian who died Nov. 19 at the age of 96.

The 2024 presidential election is drawing a robust field of independent, third party and long shot candidates.

Rep. George Santos says he expected to be expelled from Congress following a scathing report by the House Ethics Committee that found substantial evidence of lawbreaking by the New York Republican.

Donald Trump used college football rivalry weekend to bask among his supporters in a state and region that are key to his presidential fortunes, while trying to upstage his Republican opponent Nikki Haley on her home turf at the Clemson-South Carolina football game.

Ohio’s new constitutional protections for abortion access and other reproductive rights take effect Dec. 7, a month after voters resoundingly passed them.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is granting pardons at a pace not seen since the World War II era.

Some of the last surviving witnesses to the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are among those sharing their stories as the nation marks the 60th anniversary.

An influential Iowa evangelical leader is endorsing Ron DeSantis for president before the leadoff Republican caucuses.

House Republicans have issued a subpoena to a federal prosecutor involved in the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden.

President Joe Biden has ordered that U.S. flags on federal government buildings and property will be lowered to half staff in recognition of former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died Sunday.

Donald Trump has long praised a particular type of foreign leader — men he describes as tough and strong, even if they're accused of chipping away at democracy.

Democratic Rep. Anna Eshoo is not running for reelection next year.

A New York massage therapist who joined the mob of Trump supporters attacking the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to three months in jail.

Donald Trump’s former corporate controller has teared up while testifying that he “gave up” on his longtime job because he was worn out by the company’s legal woes.

President Joe Biden promised to visit Africa this year, but 2023 is drawing to a close with no trip in sight so far.

Former President Donald Trump is set to attend South Carolina's biggest athletic event of the year.

Democrats are urging the Wisconsin Supreme Court to overturn Republican-drawn legislative maps.

The 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination finds his family, and the country, at a moment many would not have imagined in JFK's lifetime.

Republican Celeste Maloy has won a special election in Utah to replace her former boss, U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart.

The Georgia judge overseeing the election subversion case against former President Donald Trump and others imposed stricter bond conditions for one of the defendants after prosecutors complained about his social media posts that mentioned witnesses and co-defendants.

Vivek Ramaswamy has failed to rise in the 2024 Republican presidential primary race and is increasingly risking becoming an afterthought.

On President Joe Biden's 81st birthday, GOP front-runner Donald Trump has released a letter from his physician that reports the former president is in “excellent” physical and mental health.

President Joe Biden is celebrating his 81st birthday by joking repeatedly about his advanced age.

A divided federal appeals court has found that private individuals and groups such as the NAACP do not have the ability to sue under a key section of the federal Voting Rights Act.

A second group of U.S. House lawmakers toured the building where Parkland high school students were massacred in 2018.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed legislation barring individuals convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence from possessing firearms for at least an eight-year-period.

Three debates for next year’s presidential general election are set to be held in college towns in Texas, Virginia and Utah between Sept. 16 and Oct. 9.

Republicans two seats short of U.S. Senate control are expected to spend tens of millions of dollars on ads attacking Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester as a Washington insider tainted by lobbyist cash.

Notable quotes from former first lady Rosalynn Carter.

A timeline of key moments from former first lady Rosalynn Carter’s 96 years.

Rosalynn Carter drew the nickname “Steel Magnolia” when she arrived in Washington as first lady.

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is refusing to condemn Elon Musk’s post endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

President Joe Biden is visiting naval installations in Virginia for an early kickoff to the Thanksgiving holiday week.

Donald Trump has returned to the U.S.-Mexico border for a visit and he's picked up the endorsement of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas.

The statewide battles over abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to abortion have exposed another fault line across the country.

President Joe Biden ends nearly every speech by saying he’s “never been more optimistic” about the country’s direction.

President Joe Biden says that achieving a cease-fire amid Israel’s war with Hamas “is not peace” and that an important key to lasting stability is a reunited Gaza Strip and West Bank that can be governed under “a revitalized Palestinian Authority.”.

In a story published November 18, 2023, about the California Democratic Party’s endorsing convention, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of a demonstrator.

A Connecticut judge has set Jan. 23 as the date for a new Democratic primary in the Bridgeport mayor’s race after having tossed out the September election results because of alleged ballot box stuffing.

Experts on extremism fear that the threat of politically motivated violence will intensify as the 2024 presidential campaign heats up.

Republicans in Louisiana have swept three runoff races for powerful statewide offices: attorney general, secretary of state and treasurer.

Election officials around the country are stocking up on the overdose reversal medication naloxone after a series of suspicious mailings — some containing traces of fentanyl — were sent to vote centers or government buildings in six states.

Former President Donald Trump celebrated a win in a closely watched election case during a return visit to Iowa.

A Colorado judge has found that former President Donald Trump engaged in insurrection in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol but rejected an effort to keep him off the state’s primary ballot because it’s unclear whether a Civil War-era Constitutional amendment applies to the presidency.

The political organization No Labels has contemplated requiring a donation of at least $100 in order to cast a ballot at the group’s upcoming nominating convention.

House Speaker Mike Johnson says he plans to publicly release hours of footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

A prosecutor in Georgia is seeking an August trial date for former President Donald Trump and others charged over efforts to overturn the 2020 election in the state.

The judge in Donald Trump’s civil fraud case has denied his bid for a mistrial.

Moms for Liberty has reported $2.1 million in total revenue in 2022.

The White House is firing back on a recent subpoenas issued by House Republicans targeting members of President Joe Biden’s family and his aides.

The chairman of the House Ethics Committee has filed a resolution to force a vote on expelling Republican Rep. George Santos from Congress.

Attorneys for a group of Michigan activists are asking the state Supreme Court to hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling that would allow former President Donald Trump’s name on the state’s presidential primary ballot.

The Virginia Democrat whose legislative campaign was rocked by the disclosure that she had livestreamed sex acts with her husband lost this year's race but isn't giving up on politics.

Voters in Utah’s second congressional district will cast ballots Tuesday in an Thanksgiving-week special election to fill the last remaining vacant seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Ron DeSantis has picked up 10 endorsements in South Carolina from former backers of Sen. Tim Scott’s presidential campaign.

The Republicans battling to be their party’s alternative to Donald Trump have brought personal and at times emotional stories to what an influential Iowa Christian organization billed as a friendly conversation.

An Ohio man who repeatedly attacked police officers at the U.S. Capitol during a mob's riot on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison.

National Democrats this year have insisted the party is united and ready to rally around President Joe Biden heading into next year’s election.

Competition is growing in Michigan's Congressional race as Democratic U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee announces he will be retiring next year after the end of his sixth term.

A New York appeals court judge has paused a gag order that barred Donald Trump from commenting on court staffers in his civil fraud trial.