The U.S. House race in Colorado's 8th Congressional District is one of the closest in the nation and a testing ground for Republicans' and Democrats' strategies to reach Latino voters.

The home stretch of the midterm election campaign is a good news, bad news phenomenon for LGBTQ activists.

Progressive Democrat Michelle Vallejo and conservative Republican Monica De La Cruz face off in a South Texas district long represented by moderate Democrats.

The Manhattan district attorney says a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump and his business practices is continuing, despite a recent shakeup in the probe’s leadership.

The leaders of six opposition parties in Turkey have met for the first time to strategize about the future of the country’s governing system.

Conservative congresswoman Lauren Boebert has spoken by phone with congresswoman Ilhan Omar just days after likening the Minnesota Democrat to a bomb-carrying terrorist.

After lawsuits alleging racial gerrymandering, Republicans drawing new legislative maps in Texas, Ohio and North Carolina this year say they won't use racial or partisan data in the process.

Together the two impeachment trials Trump faced illustrated his ability to escape consequences for actions that even many Republicans denounced. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)WASHINGTON – Donald Trump's first impeachment trial centered on a phone call Americans never heard with the leader of a country very far away. Trump's second impeachment trial was a steroidal sequel centered on the rage, violence and anguish of one day in Washington. The Senate acquitted Trump on a 57-43 vote Saturday, well short of the 67 needed to convict him. To many Republicans in Congress, Democrats were merely impeaching Trump for being Trump.

But it was largely a recycling of the same litany of misinformation and unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud that he has been making for the past month. Both Facebook and Twitter flagged the president’s posting as problematic, with Twitter noting that Trump’s claims about election fraud are disputed. Barr, in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, said the Justice Department has uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the election outcome. Some states mail ballots to every registered voter, while other states mail ballots only to voters who request them. Use of mail-in ballots soared as Democrats encouraged their use to reduce in-person voting during a pandemic.