Democratic leaders are sharing a rare moment of relief — if not celebration — as they cling to election results from Wisconsin and Florida that offered a glimmer of hope for their party.

Tesla sales fell in the first three months of the year in another sign that Elon Musk’s once high-flying electric car company is struggling to attract buyers.

The conservative-backed loser of Wisconsin's Supreme Court election promptly conceded the race as it was called, angering his own supporters, who yelled for him to stay in the fight.

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump have recently suggested that the billionaire entrepreneur's time in the administration might be running out.

Susan Crawford’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election victory over a conservative candidate backed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk cements a liberal majority on the state’s top court for at least three more years.

President Donald Trump has announced plans for sweeping tariffs.

Export manufacturing and free trade helped transform China and other Asian countries into economic powerhouses.

Three spring elections have provided early warning signs to Republicans and President Donald Trump.

Republican senators unveiled a budget proposal that’s central to President Donald Trump’s agenda of tax breaks, spending cuts and border security.

The Democrats' victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race is a big loss for Elon Musk.

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

U.S. stocks whipped through another dizzying day before President Donald Trump’s unveiling of his “Liberation Day” tariffs.

A federal lawsuit accuses billionaire Elon Musk and the political action committee he started of failing to pay a suburban Philadelphia man more than $20,000 for getting people to sign a petition in favor of free speech and gun rights.

There is no answer yet on the lawsuit filed by Institute of Peace board members who were fired amid a remaking of the independent think tank.

A federal judge in Virginia has blocked the Trump administration's move to fire more than a dozen intelligence agency employees who worked on diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

The Social Security Administration says it is investigating the root cause of website outages that have affected the “my Social Security” portal where recipients access their benefits.

The lawmaker who's been holding the Senate floor with a lengthy speech railing against President Donald Trump's Republican agenda is a New Jersey Democrat who once found common ground with the president during his first term.

U_S_ stocks swerved through another shaky day of trading, with uncertainty still high about just what President Donald Trump will announce about tariffs on his “Liberation Day.”.

The Democratic-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court has won, defeating President Donald Trump’s endorsed challenger.

A handful of elections in Florida and Wisconsin have become key tests of President Donald Trump’s political standing just over two months into his second term in the White House.

A bitcoin investor is headed to space with three polar explorers on the first flight to carry people over the North and South poles.

The Defense Department is going to offer a new round of voluntary resignations and retirements to the civilian workforce, but details are slim.

NASA's celebrity astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams say they would fly on Boeing's Starliner capsule again.

A fire that damaged the entryway to the New Mexico Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque is being investigated as arson.

The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward a Catholic charitable organization pushing back against the state of Wisconsin in the latest religious rights case to come before the court.

A court filing says an official allied with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has been put in charge of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a think tank targeted by President Donald Trump for closure.

President Donald Trump’s preferred candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and his Democratic-backed challenger are making a final blitz across the state.

Italian police are investigating as possible arson a fire that destroyed more than a dozen Tesla electric vehicles at a dealership on the outskirts of Rome.

President Donald Trump says Wednesday will be “Liberation Day” — when he plans to roll out a set of tariffs he promises will free the United States from foreign goods.

The Democratic base is angry.

Elon Musk and his political operatives have tried to shape the closely watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race in ways that are not immediately obvious but could be critical to Tuesday’s outcome.

Federal authorities are investigating an early morning fire that damaged the entryway to the headquarters of the Republican Party of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Elon Musk has given out $1 million checks to two Wisconsin voters, declaring them spokespeople for his political group.

Protesters gathered at three different Houston area Tesla locations today, taking part in what they called a “peaceful protest” against decisions and gestures made by Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, founder of SpaceX, and current Director of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Most employees at the U.S. Institute of Peace, a congressionally created and funded think tank now taken over by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, have received email notices of their mass firing — the latest step in the Trump administration’s government downsizing.

Crowds have protested billionaire Elon Musk’s purge of the U.S. government under President Donald Trump outside Tesla dealerships throughout the U.S. and in some cities in Europe.

A Wisconsin appellate court has denied the state Democratic attorney general’s request to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters at a rally planned for Sunday, just two days before a closely contested Supreme Court election.

Billionaire Elon Musk’s unprecedented efforts to bolster the conservative candidate in next week’s hotly contested Wisconsin Supreme Court race have run into legal hot water amid accusations that he had broken state election law.

Elon Musk has sold social media site X to his own xAI artificial intelligence company in a $33 billion all-stock deal, the billionaire announced on Friday.

President Donald Trump says U.S. officials are “going to be helping” with the response to Southeast Asia’s deadly earthquake.

A federal appeals court has lifted an order blocking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

A federal judge has agreed to block the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Wisconsin’s Democratic attorney general has asked a court to block billionaire Elon Musk from handing out $1 million checks to voters this weekend.

Wisconsin’s spring election Tuesday for state Supreme Court, state schools chief and a proposed constitutional amendment requiring photo ID for voting will be the first major indication of the state’s political climate since Donald Trump recaptured the White House.

Another wipeout slammed Wall Street as worries built about a potentially toxic mix of worsening inflation and a U.S. economy slowing because of households afraid to spend due to the global trade war.

An old anti-apartheid song that was a call for Black people to stand up against oppression and has now been decried by Elon Musk and others as promoting the killing of whites is back in the headlines in South Africa.

As part of a push to roll back dozens of environmental regulations, the Trump administration is offering coal-fired power plants and other industrial polluters a chance to receive exemptions from rules requiring them to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals, including mercury, arsenic and benzene.

Billionaire Elon Musk says a Wisconsin voter has been awarded $1 million just days before the conclusion of a fiercely contested state Supreme Court election that's broken spending records.

Major anti-abortion groups have gathered in the nation's capital to begin a lobbying effort with Congress and President Donald Trump’s administration aimed at eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood.

Wall Street edged lower after getting pulled in opposite directions as President Donald Trump’s latest tariff escalation creates winners and losers among auto stocks.

American robotics companies are pushing for a national robotics strategy, including a central government robotics office, to promote the industry at a time that Beijing is making intelligent robots a top national priority.

Election officials, state attorneys general and legal experts say President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to reshape election processes throughout the U.S. will likely face legal challenges for violating the Constitution.

The Social Security Administration said Wednesday that people applying for Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicare, or Supplemental Security Income who are not able to use agency’s online portal, can complete their claim entirely over the phone instead of at an office.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is supporting the conservative candidate in the race to fill a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which could ultimately decide a Tesla lawsuit.

A federal judge in Maryland says he will extend a temporary order requiring the Trump administration to bring back federal workers who were fired as the president seeks to dramatically downsize the federal workforce.

President Donald Trump says he is placing 25% tariffs on auto imports.

Delaware is poised to give corporate officers more protections in its courts against shareholder lawsuits after criticism by business titans that rattled top public officials in what is called the world's corporate capital.

Delaware lawmakers are putting aside protests from big investors and approving fast-tracked legislation that backers say will protect its status as the world's corporate capital.

Angry over the crush of court rulings against the Trump administration, Republicans in Congress are trying to slap back at the federal judiciary.

The U.S. Postal Service is facing an uncertain future after the resignation this week of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the suggestion by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk of possibly privatizing the mail service.

Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett mocked her state’s governor during a weekend appearance, referring to Greg Abbott — who uses a wheelchair — as “Gov. Hot Wheels” while speaking at a banquet in Los Angeles.

The gang talks about Texas’ role in the modern space race, what the aeronautics industry wants from the Legislature and, of course, Elon Musk.

The nominee to lead the Social Security Administration has faced tough questions at his confirmation hearing about efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency to shut down field offices and cut back on phone service.

Total spending on Wisconsin’s pivotal Supreme Court race has reached more than $81 million, including more than $17 million by groups funded by Trump adviser Elon Musk.

European sales of Tesla electric vehicles tumbled 49% in the first two months of the year even as overall sales of EVs grew.

As the Trump administration forges ahead with its dramatic reshaping of the federal government, voters in a northwest Florida district will be among the first to put the president’s agenda to an electoral test.

After a judge ordered the Trump administration to rehire thousands of probationary workers who were fired in a dramatic downsizing of the U.S. government, many have been asked to return to work only to be put on administrative leave, or offered early retirement.

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin says he hoped to bolster Virginia’s rainy-day fund by trimming the state’s budget by $300 million.

The New York Times is denouncing “intimidation tactics” by President Donald Trump against its reporters.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has resigned after nearly five years in the position.

Answering for America has become an increasingly delicate experience under Trump 2.0, a dozen U.S. citizens in other countries have told The Associated Press in recent weeks.

Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court is just entering its final stretch and it’s already breaking records as the most expensive judicial election in the nation’s history.

The election to fill a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat is quickly becoming a referendum on the Trump administration and a test of enthusiasm on both sides.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the claim that white people are being persecuted in his country is a “completely false narrative.”.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing people’s private data at the Education Department, the Treasury Department and the Office of Personnel Management.

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to halt a ruling ordering the rehiring of thousands of federal workers let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government.

Congressional lawmakers are scrambling to formulate a response to President Donald Trump’s slashing of the federal government as one group takes a front and center role: military veterans.

Mass layoffs and resignations at the federal government are prompting concerns that a disgruntled former employee may seek to sell secrets to a foreign power.

During the first Trump administration, many journalists worried most about being called “fake news.”.

Three European allies have been pressing the Trump administration to get back money they sent to the United States to help low-income countries.

The Pentagon’s intelligence and law enforcement arms are investigating what it says are leaks of national security information.

New requirements that Social Security recipients go online or in person to a field office to access key benefits, instead of just making a phone call, will pose challenges for many people.

Abortion has been top of mind for many voters casting early ballots in the race for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

President Donald Trump is calling on his supporters to vote for a candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court who already had the full-throated backing of Trump’s billionaire adviser Elon Musk.

A Trump Cabinet secretary violated the law when he told TV viewers this week to buy Tesla stock, but it's not clear that anything will be done about it.

Twitter’s iconic bird logo that was removed from the company’s former San Francisco headquarters when Elon Musk took over the social media company and rebranded it to X has sold for nearly $35,000 at an auction.

A group funded by billionaire Elon Musk is offering Wisconsin voters $100 to sign a petition in opposition to “activist judges.”.

A federal judge says Friday he will “get to the bottom” of whether President Donald Trump’s administration defied his order blocking deportation flights.

Democratic lawmakers are courting online content creators, podcasters and celebrities in a bid to find new ways to boost their message to voters.

Republican U.S. Rep. Celeste Maloy says the country risks drifting toward authoritarianism if the executive branch isn't brought under control.

U.S. stocks shook off a weak start and ended slightly higher, enough to break a four-week losing streak.

President Donald Trump says war plans should not be shared with his adviser Elon Musk because of his business interests.

Since it was created in 1979, the Education Department has enjoyed enough bipartisan support to keep it in business, with some Republicans even embracing its role in funding and shaping public schools.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services has been added to the list of government agencies targeted by President Donald Trump.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from Social Security Administration systems that hold personally identifiable data on millions of Americans.

The Trump administration, through Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, is closing numerous Social Security Administration offices, including nearly 800 federal real estate leases.

US regulators are recalling nearly all Cybertrucks, the eighth recall of the Tesla vehicles since deliveries to customers began just over a year ago.

Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner abruptly resigned from his top post at the U.S. passenger railroad this week.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order Thursday "aimed at eliminating” the U.S. Education Department.

U.S. stock indexes edged lower following another reminder that big, unsettling policy changes are underway because of President Donald Trump, along with more signals suggesting the U.S. economy remains solid for now.