The map still favors Republicans, but political headwinds are shifting to boost Democratic chances of flipping seats — despite the scandal in Maine.

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner announced his withdrawal from the race against Republican Sen. Susan Collins following multiple sexual assault allegations, but he's waiting until the last minute to formalize his exit as Democrats face an imminent deadline to replace him.

The end of Platner’s disastrous bid for a must-win US Senate seat has blunted Democrats’ efforts to oppose President Trump’s agenda.

Six Democratic candidates have formally announced their campaigns in the hours since Platner dropped out less than three weeks before the ballot deadline.

President Donald Trump has chosen not to sign a sweeping housing affordability bill on Friday, in protest of Congress not approving a strict voter ID bill that does not have enough support to pass

President Trump says he won't sign a landmark affordable housing bill into law. It's set to become law at the end of July 10 if no action is taken.

U.S. ⁠President Donald Trump ​said on ‌Friday he would ‌not ⁠sign a ⁠bipartisan housing affordability bill ​that he had ​called “a big yawn" last ⁠month. Trump ⁠said in ⁠a social ​media post that ​he ⁠was withholding his signature "in ⁠PROTEST over the fact that the ⁠United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ⁠ACT".

The bill neverthless becomes law at midnight, but the president wants Republicans to prioritise voter ID legislation before November midterm elections.

Three men who say they witnesses the shooting said through their attorney that ICE’s account of what happened to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is "false."

A Texas congresswoman says a Mexican man living in the U.S. who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was not the person federal authorities had been targeting in a Houston

People at the vigil mourned the death of 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and called for more accountability from ICE. Amelia Mugavero reports.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has again called for the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement after the death of a man in Houston. An ICE agent opened fire during a traffic stop in Texas,

A five-day preliminary hearing concluded Friday in Utah in the case of the man accused of killing conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

Tyler Robinson's defense attorneys leave the courthouse after prosecutors finished presenting evidence during the fourth day of Robinson's preliminary hearing.

The preliminary hearing for the accused killer of Charlie Kirk has wrapped up. A Utah judge will now take several weeks to decide if Tyler Robinson goes to trial.

Prosecutors shared new surveillance footage from the moments leading up to Charlie Kirk's death, as they try to build a case against Tyler Robinson.

Health officials are racing to find the source of a parasite that has sickened potentially thousands of people across more than 30 states and isn’t showing signs of stopping.

While it often spikes during the summer, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defining cyclosporiasis "season" as May 1 to Aug. 31, the size and nature of the outbreaks have the CDC and Food and Drug Administration looking to pinpoint its origins.

Simply washing fruits and vegetables with water might not be enough to remove the parasite behind the U.S. outbreak.

But available information shows only a small number of documented outbreaks in the last 20 years have surpassed 1,000 cases.

On the same day the Michigan Supreme Court let stand a lower court's decision ordering bills be sent to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's desk for her signature — ending a prolonged legal standoff between the Michigan House of Representatives and the Michigan Senate — the governor vetoed all of the nine bills caught in the legal limbo.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has vetoed the nine bills that were stuck in limbo from the 2023-24 legislative session and were the subject of a Michigan Supreme Court order on Friday, potentially roiling

The state Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that Michigan’s Republican-led House of Representatives must send nine bills to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that were passed by lawmakers in 2024. The state Court of Appeals in October said that withholding the bills violated the state Constitution.

The Michigan House must present nine bills passed in 2024 to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for her signature under a Michigan Supreme Court order.