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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass moved a step closer to winning reelection after securing the top spot in the city's jungle primary -- putting her on a possible crash course this November with former bad-boy reality star Spencer Pratt.

After a tough first term framed by the most destructive wildfire in city history and an ongoing struggle with widespread homelessness, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass advanced to a November runoff Tuesday as she fights to stay in City Hall against ...

Iowa state Rep. Josh Turek won Tuesday's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate and will next try to flip the seat currently held by GOP Sen. Joni Ernst, who is retiring.

Rebecca Bennett, a former Navy helicopter pilot, won the New Jersey Democratic primary in the battleground 7th Congressional District Tuesday to take on Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr., who has been absent from Congress with an unspecified illness for ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Alabama to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year's elections, blocking a lower court ruling that the redistricting plan intentionally discriminates against Black people.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers Tuesday that the U.S. is still in discussions with several countries to resettle more than 1,000 Afghans who assisted America's war effort, while he defended the Trump administration's decision to green ...

The Justice Department is permanently abandoning its plan to set up a $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress on Tuesday.

Alaska GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan is planning legal action to prevent another Dan Sullivan who filed to run against him from appearing on the ballot, calling it a Democrat-led ploy to confuse voters.

SPENCER PRATT to Bill Maher: "I don't want you smoking in front of kids at the park. You know, I'll be enforcing if you're smoking that in front of a kid at a swing. I'll be getting you as mayor."

Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner was heckled as he arrived at a meeting of Senate Democrats by a chorus of 30 protesters Tuesday about the hookup app KiK -- a site known for facilitating teen hookups -- when he was in his 30s.