The Supreme Court on Wednesday paved the way for Louisiana to use a congressional map in this year's election that includes two majority-Black districts.
Maryland state Sen. Sarah Elfreth won the Democratic primary for an open House seat Tuesday, NBC News projects, defeating a former police officer who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and...
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed to hold two campaign debates, on June 27 hosted by CNN and on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/biden-offers-to-debate-trump-in-june-and-september/3541510/
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan won Republican Senate nominations on Tuesday as voters across neighboring states with antithetical politics decided contests wi...
The prosecution’s case in Donald Trump’s hush money trial is entering its final stretch with his former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, on the witness stand.
The star prosecution witness in Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial, Michael Cohen, took the stand Monday. Cohen is Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer and is by far the most import...
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/trump-trial-michael-cohen-set-to-testify/3539152/
Michael Cohen is the most central witness for prosecutors in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/michael-cohen-donald-trump-history/3539060/
Barron Trump’s entrance onto the national political stage has at least been delayed.
Prosecutors have been building up their case ahead of important testimony from Cohen, who arranged the $130,000 payout to porn actor Stormy Daniels to keep her from going public ahead of the 2016...
The Senate has passed a $105 billion bill designed to improve air safety and customer service for air travelers, a day before the law governing the Federal Aviation Administration expires.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/senate-bill-air-safety-airline-refunds/3537666/
Hardline Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tried and failed in sudden action Wednesday to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, her long-shot effort swiftly and resoundingly rejected by Democrats and Republica...
If Donald Trump keeps trying the patience of the judge presiding over his hush money trial, the former president could wind up back in his home New York City borough of Queens — specifically th...
A fraternity at the University of Mississippi, where a member last week jeered a Black woman protester by appearing to make ape-like sounds and gestures, said the man has been expelled from the...
Brad Parscale says Campaign Nucleus can use AI to help generate customized emails, parse oceans of data to gauge voter sentiment and find persuadable voters.
The fine Monday marks the second sanction for Trump for inflammatory comments about witnesses since the start of the trial last month.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/trump-hush-money-trial-third-week-begins/3533850/
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina on Sunday did not directly answer multiple questions about whether he'd accept the results of the 2024 presidential election, regardless of who wins.
Kristi Noem is in the running to become Donald Trump's VP nominee in the 2024 election.
Jurors appeared riveted as prosecutors on Thursday played a September 2016 recording that attorney Michael Cohen secretly made of himself briefing his celebrity client on a plan to buy Karen McDo...
Former President Donald Trump met privately over breakfast with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Sunday, six sources said.
President Joe Biden on Saturday used his White House correspondents' dinner speech to swipe at former President Donald Trump, taking shots at the presumptive GOP nominee while highlighting the...
Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable.
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem — a potential running mate for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump — is getting attention again.
David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, returned to the witness stand for a fourth day as defense attorneys tried to poke holes in his testimony about his tabloid's efforts t...
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Thursday that he planned to sign a bill state legislators sent to his desk this week that would allow school staff members to carry concealed handguns on school gro...
President Joe Biden has signed into law a $95 billion war aid measure that includes assistance for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and other allies.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/biden-signs-war-aid-ukraine-israel-taiwan-tiktok-bill/3523324/
Morehouse College is set to announce that President Joe Biden will deliver its commencement address on May 19, but some faculty members have raised concerns about the decision, according to two p...
A Kentucky man who stormed the U.S. Capitol while carrying a Confederate battle flag has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for pepper spraying two police officers in the face, tempo...
Election Day is Saturday, May 4; polls are open until 7 p.m.
Opening statements are set to begin Monday morning in the case of the People of the State of New York versus Donald Trump, the first criminal trial of a former president.
President Joe Biden often overstates what people who are eligible for the price cap for insulin paid previously.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/biden-price-cap-insulin/3520620/
The latest national NBC News poll shows the third-party vote — and especially independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — cutting deeper into former President Donald Trump�...
The House has passed legislation that would ban TikTok in the United States if the popular social media platform’s China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake within a year. But don’t expect t...
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/house-votes-for-possible-tiktok-ban/3520407/
The bill now goes to President Joe Biden, whose administration says FISA's warrantless spying power is vital to national security.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/senate-bill-fisa-surveillance-power/3520276/
The policy contrasts between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are sharpening as the general election campaign gets fully underway.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/decision-2024/2024-presidential-election-big-issues/3517602/
The historic hush-money trial of Donald Trump got underway Monday with the arduous process of selecting a jury to hear the case charging the former president with falsifying business records ...
The hush money trial of former President Donald Trump begins Monday with jury selection. It's a singular moment for American history as the first criminal trial of a former U.S. commander in chie...
A federal judge in Delaware has refused to throw out a federal gun case against Hunter Biden, rejecting the president’s son’s claim that he is being prosecuted for political purposes as well ...
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/judge-rejects-hunter-bidens-bid-to-dismiss-gun-case/3513828/
A state appeals court judge on Monday denied Donald Trump's bid for an emergency delay of his impending criminal trial in New York.
Former President Donald Trump has secured commitments totaling $50 million for a Saturday fundraiser in Palm Beach, Florida, according to four sources familiar with an effort that could bring in ...
As Trump seeks the presidency a third time, he’s being shadowed by a chorus of people who served in his administration who have become sharp critics, some offering dire predictions about his re...
The U.S. treasury secretary has called for a level playing field for American companies and workers as she opens a five-day visit to China in a major industrial and export hub. She told the gover...
New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a notice on Thursday seeking more information about former President Donald Trump's bond for the civil fraud case, which was issued by Knight Specia...
The group's co-founder said it wasn't able to identify “candidates with a credible path to winning the White House” on a third-party ticket.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/no-labels-ends-2024-presidential-efforts/3506613/
Donald Trump lost two separate bids to dismiss criminal cases on Thursday, less than 24 hours after he lost a bid to delay his upcoming New York hush money trial.
Providing Donald Trump’s $175 million appeal bond when other insurers wouldn’t is business as usual for California financier Don Hankey.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/car-billionaire-donald-trump-bond/3506087/
Voters in four states weighed in Tuesday on their parties' presidential nominees, a largely symbolic vote now that both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have locked up the De...
The Florida Supreme Court has cleared the way for a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/florida-supreme-court-6-week-abortion-ban/3503692/
Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., said this week that the conflict in Gaza should be over quickly "like Nagasaki and Hiroshima," and the United States should refrain from sending any humanitarian aid to...
Former President Donald Trump shared a video on social media Friday that included an image of President Joe Biden bound and restrained in the back of a pickup truck.
The family said it would “pursue all legal action available” if Kennedy failed to halt his campaign’s use of the United Farm Workers co-founder’s name and imagery.