Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson, the top challengers in Chicago's mayoral race to incumbent Lori Lightfoot (D), have earned enough votes to move to a runoff in April, meaning Lightfoot's reelection bid is now over in a historic defeat.
Lori Lightfoot's tenure as mayor of Chicago has ended, marked by four years of grappling with rising crime rates and keeping the city afloat during nationwide pandemic. Both her job performance and electability of her opponents led to her becoming the first incumbent to lose an election since 1989.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is set to introduce legislation aimed at curbing biologically male transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.
Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to overturn her sex trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls for more than a decade.
The Supreme Court issued two opinions on Tuesday ahead of its busy oral argument session on the Biden administration's student debt relief plan, repeating a pattern of non-traditional alliances among the justices in a small set of early rulings.
Former President Donald Trump vowed a “sweeping pro-American overhaul” of the nation’s trade policies if returned to the White House, drawing early battle lines in the Republican presidential nominating contest by reviving a message that helped propel him to victory in 2016.
President Joe Biden could be close to issuing the first veto of his presidency as Republicans in Congress mount a campaign to challenge two Biden regulations and a bill to block a new crime law in the District of Columbia.
Republicans are putting Senate Democrats in a difficult spot as the chamber prepares to vote on whether to strike down an overhaul of D.C.'s century-old criminal code.
Protesters were thrown out of the House committee on China's first prime-time hearing Tuesday evening while speakers outlined a complex thread of threats from Beijing that stretch from human rights to trade, militaristic goals, and geopolitical machinations.
