The tech billionaire was the largest donor in the 2024 election cycle. The value of his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, has soared since Donald Trump’s victory.

President-elect Trump was hosted at East Palestine by Sen. JD Vance shortly after the derailment disaster, which Steven Cheung agreed was when his trajectory to victory began.

Gerrymandering is not a Republican or Democrat problem, it is a problem for our democracy, writes U of I professor Sheldon H. Jacobson.

Polls are open Saturday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for the Austin area's runoff election, which includes races in which one candidate did not receive at least half of the vote. Only a small number of races are being voted on, but they're important ones.

This year, however, Tester lost by 8 points, and — with Manchin's retirement — Democrats lost their West Virginia seat by a whopping 41 points. These losses followed similar defeats for Democrats in deep-red Indiana, Missouri and North Dakota in 2018, as well as in Arkansas, Louisiana and South Dakota in 2014 and across the South in the 2000s.

Wars raged on in the Middle East and Ukraine in 2024, while the United States navigated an election of unprecedented stakes and a major airplane manufacturer became embroiled in investigations over safety.

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is facing some intra-party unrest in Iowa as she weighs whether to support Donald Trump's secretary of defense pick, Pete Hegseth.

El Paso voters will head to the polls for the fifth time this year on Saturday, Dec. 14, to elect a new mayor and five City Council representatives.

This year's political polls in Florida accurately predicted Donald Trump winning the White House but by tighter margins than he actually did.

Voters in some parts of the country are discovering that having their say at the ballot box is not necessarily the final word, even though this year's election was over a month ago.

Gov. Ron DeSantis hasn’t ruled out re-suspending Democratic State Attorney Monique Worrell, and a leaked email titled “the future is uncertain” has sparked speculation that her