Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy says he has been discharged from the hospital after suffering a stroke last weekend and will miss “several weeks” of votes in the Senate as he recovers in a rehabilitation facility

Jay Rockefeller, the last member of his family’s political dynasty who served as West Virginia’s governor and later a longtime U.S. senator, has died

Voters in Washington and Colorado have approved measures to ban transgender athletes from participating in school sports

In his first public appearance after an election that soundly repudiated his policies, President Donald Trump turned to a topic both familiar and, given the context, surprising

The Trump administration has escalated its economic campaign against Cuba

Billionaire Leon Black has filed a federal defamation lawsuit against California Rep. Robert Garcia for public comments the Democratic congressman made tying him to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein

A California measure to tax the net worth of billionaires was too early to call Wednesday morning as the vote tally continued

For the first time in nearly two years, the Seattle Seahawks lost a game by double digits

President Donald Trump, California’s notoriously high cost of living and political experience are on the ballot as voters decide between Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton in the governor's race

Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico in an uncharacteristically competitive race for the U.S. Senate in Texas

Republican Sen. Darline Graham and Democrat Annie Andrews face off in a historic South Carolina election that will send the state’s first woman to the U.S. Senate

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is fighting to keep her job against Nithya Raman, another progressive Democrat who is backed by the Democratic Socialists of America

Florida voters are choosing between Republican Byron Donalds and Democrat David Jolly in a surprisingly competitive governor's race

The stakes in Tuesday’s election — which party will control Congress — are crystal clear

Aaron Glenn is feeling the heat as the New York Jets coach and is struggling in his second season

Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s former opponent in the U.S. Senate primary, Haley Stevens, has stunned party officials by endorsing Republican Mike Rogers

President Donald Trump is wrapping up a turbulent midterm campaign with rallies in Iowa and Kansas

The Justice Department is urging a federal judge to consider whether to hold an immigrant rights group in contempt of court for disclosing the results of its analysis of a dataset of alleged noncitizens registered to vote in California

Utah and Notre Dame have joined Miami and Georgia as top-four seeds in a hypothetical 12-team College Football Playoff bracket based on The Associated Press Top 25

President Donald Trump’s administration has made $15 billion worth of promises to agriculture producers in the last few weeks of the midterm elections

The Trump administration plans to deport Afghans detained in the U.S. back to Afghanistan via Pakistan

The Trump administration’s online accounts have circulated images of a pumpkin carved with a sombrero design and a fake Halloween-themed background around a Black man apparently accused of food assistance fraud

Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico were making closing arguments Saturday in a tossup Texas U.S. Senate race that has become a key measure of voters’ frustration with Trump’s leadership and his loyalists in the Republican Party

More than 4 in 10 names flagged as possible noncitizen voters in California by the Trump administration can’t even be found on the state’s voter rolls

Alaska’s Republican-run state government is urging a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed at President Donald Trump’s direction to stop the certification of a possible Democratic win in that state’s pivotal U.S. Senate race