Xp Lee won a special election in Minnesota on Tuesday to replace Melissa Hortman, the former speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, who was assassinated in June. She was the top Democrat in the House. Lee is a former city councilman of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, the Associated Press reported. He easily defeated his Republican […]

President Donald Trump is arriving in the United Kingdom on Tuesday for an unprecedented second state visit, this time hosted by King Charles III. The president will be kept mostly behind the walls of Windsor Castle, far from the London streets that just days ago were packed with more than 100,000 “Unite the Kingdom” protesters. […]

The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that it had sued the states of Maine and Oregon for failing to relinquish voter registration lists.  The DOJ claimed both states violated federal law by not complying with requests to turn over voter registration lists, particularly information about ineligible voters in each state, the Associated Press reported. […]

Congress acted on youth crime in the nation’s capital on Tuesday, passing legislation to change how youth are prosecuted in the district. The effort is part of President Donald Trump’s attempt to crack down on crime in Washington. Two bills passed with at least some bipartisan support — the D.C. Crimes Act and the D.C. […]