Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he plans to remain atop the Senate Democratic caucus after the midterm elections, even as several candidates on the Democratic ticket say they would not support a sixth bid from Schumer to lead the party. Schumer has long been expected to seek another term at the helm of […]

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a Department of Justice lawsuit seeking Georgia’s complete voter rolls, marking the department’s 26th court defeat in its nationwide campaign to obtain sensitive voter information. U.S. District Judge Victoria Marie Calvert, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, ruled that federal law did not override Georgia’s voter privacy protections. […]

A Texas man who was arrested for posing a “credible threat” to the state Capitol was released on bond Wednesday, just hours after he was first taken into custody. Benny Caldera Jr. was arrested at his home northeast of San Antonio at 3 a.m. on Wednesday after the Texas Department of Public Safety received a […]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the execution of Tennessee inmate Christa Pike to move forward after it was halted hours earlier by a federal appeals court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit stayed Pike’s execution in the eleventh hour, as judges said they want to review whether her allegations of sexual […]