Democrat Derek Tran won the Nov. 5 election in California’s 45th Congressional District over Rep. Michelle Steel (R), who conceded Wednesday.

Republican Nick Begich unseated Rep. Mary Peltola (D) in Alaska’s at-large Congressional District, the Associated Press said Wednesday.

Democrat Janelle Bynum unseated Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer in Oregon’s 5th District, the Associated Press said Thursday.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) asked a federal court to prevent special counsel Jack Smith from destroying documents related to his investigation and prosecution of president-elect Donald Trump.

The idea of injecting more politics into filling state supreme court seats through partisan elections has taken hold in some Republican circles, and momentum could pick up after the party’s success this week in North Carolina and Ohio.

A convicted felon in New York may help determine whether Republicans hold all the levers of government in Washington next year.

The Trump administration is reorganizing foreign aid at a fraction of its former size after dismantling USAID, a move critics say has cost millions of lives.

US President Donald Trump again lashed out at military allies for not joining the war on Iran or helping to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, expressing frustration as the Islamic Republic kept up attacks on Gulf energy assets.

NextEra Energy Inc. plans to build up to 10 gigawatts of natural gas-fired generation in Texas and Pennsylvania to meet soaring demand driven in part by the data center boom.

The conflict with Iran, now in its 20th day, highlights a years-long surge in global military spending that’s driving a boom in defense stocks and racking up billions in gains for owners.

SoftBank Group Corp. is working to build a massive AI data center on federally owned land in Ohio that it’s planning to power with roughly $33 billion worth of natural gas-fired electricity to be installed by the end of the decade.

From her position of safety, Gov. Kathy Hochul is picking a fight with progressive Democrats in New York, trying to weaken a landmark climate law in the name of bringing down the cost of living.

US President Donald Trump again lashed out at military allies for not joining the war on Iran or helping to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, expressing frustration as the Islamic Republic kept up attacks on Gulf energy assets.

The conflict with Iran, now in its 20th day, highlights a years-long surge in global military spending that’s driving a boom in defense stocks and racking up billions in gains for owners.

Amazon Web Services Inc. moved to intervene in G2 Ops Inc.'s court protest to protect its rights as the winner of a $9 billion maximum value cloud services task order from the US Defense Information Systems Agency.

The eye-popping market debut of a tiny drone software company this week reveals a newfound investor appetite for stocks that fall at the intersection of geopolitics, rising spending on defense technology and artificial intelligence.

A challenge to a US Department of Transportation program intended to help certain minority- and women-owned businesses is no longer active because of an October 2025 rule change, a Kentucky federal district court said.

Roger Conner sells firewood for a living, but he might know just as much about another energy source: diesel. The fuel powers every step of the supply chain for his company, RC Conner Enterprises: the megatrucks that carry the logs from suppliers to his facility in Exeter, New Hampshire; the machines that offload and process those logs into kiln-dried residential and restaurant-grade firewood; and the trucks that deliver the finished bundles and cords to customers across New England. In a normal year, Conner spends roughly $6,800 a month on diesel. Now it’s about $11,000. To absorb some of the cost, he’s added a 5% fuel surcharge; when customers saw that, several walked away.

The Justice Department sued Harvard University for allegedly violating Jewish students’ civil rights in the Trump administration’s latest attack on the university.

Marie Villafaña, a federal sex-crimes prosecutor in South Florida, had spent a year listening to teen girls detail how Jeffrey Epstein had recruited and paid them for sex acts at his Palm Beach mansion. He was a danger to children, she told her bosses in May 2007, and begged them to urgently seek his arrest by the FBI.

An evangelical street preacher may challenge a Mississippi city ordinance restricting where protests may occur notwithstanding his prior conviction under the law, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously.

A federal judge in Orlando declined to impose the sanctions he threatened on the district’s top prosecutor, but offered a cascade of criticisms over how the office is handling cases related to Trump’s deportation agenda.

The Supreme Court on Thursday tossed an emergency appeal seeking to stop the transfer of a sacred tribal site in Arizona to a copper mining company.

Federal immigration authorities must be stopped from using a Roxbury, NJ warehouse for a detention center or risk overwhelming local utilities infrastructure, a complaint filed Friday claims.