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.

A combustible mix of policymaker FOMO, industry self-interest and parental anxiety about the future of work is fueling Asia’s push to introduce AI into classrooms at ever younger ages.

US regulators have withdrawn their approval of a GSK Plc drug that the Trump administration had promoted as a treatment for autism, adding another twist to the unusual story of a decades-old drug.

As a fragile US-Iran ceasefire takes shape, Tehran has signaled that payments in digital currency should form part of any toll system for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint through which around a fifth of the world’s oil normally flows. The logic is clear: tokens cannot be easily confiscated under sanctions.

Washington state’s income tax on high earners met its first court challenge alleging it’s an illegal tax on property Thursday, two weeks after its enactment.

Oil climbed in choppy trading on signs of further Middle Eastern supply losses and as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is still largely blocked.

Texas energy lawyers are sorting through the chaos of the Iran War, helping some clients find new domestic energy sources and telling others that new mergers and acquisitions are “dead, dead, dead.”

The US Agency for Global Media owes Capital FM (Pvt.) Ltd $10,000 in employee severance costs following the the agency’s March 2025 decision to stop providing content to the company under a distribution agreement, the US Civilian Board of Contract Appeals said.

Oil climbed in choppy trading on signs of further Middle Eastern supply losses and as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is still largely blocked.

Novartis AG failed to convince a federal appeals court that a Mississippi law requiring drug manufacturers to distribute discounted medicines to an unlimited number pharmacies should be blocked.

As war injects extreme volatility into oil and gas markets, the global race for energy security is making China stronger, according to Jacky Tang, emerging markets chief investment officer at the private banking arm of Deutsche Bank AG.

Roughly half of US states responded to the Department of Energy’s effort to gauge their interest in hosting “nuclear lifecycle innovation campuses,” but industry insiders say what the agency is ultimately looking for is a willingness to permanently store spent fuel.

NASA’s three-phase lunar strategy released March 24 — dubbed Ignition — references two dozen near- and long-term space projects worth $30 billion or more over the next decade.

Landowners on Thursday lost their bid to get a natural gas company to pay for gas extracted from a well near their property.

Apollo Global Management Chief Executive Officer Marc Rowan resolved a lawsuit JPMorgan Chase & Co. brought against him and other early investors in Charlie Javice’s student-finance startup, Frank.

A New York jury set to decide whether Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and its Ticketmaster unit should be broken up heard the company defend itself as a “fierce competitor” while the states suing over antitrust concerns called it a “monopolistic bully.”

The US Agency for Global Media owes Capital FM (Pvt.) Ltd $10,000 in employee severance costs following the the agency’s March 2025 decision to stop providing content to the company under a distribution agreement, the US Civilian Board of Contract Appeals said.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has elevated Justice Department aide and conservative litigator Trent McCotter to a critical role with authority to shape a new leadership vision in the wake of Pam Bondi’s ouster.

The EPA’s use of a specific economic metric when proposing major regulations isn’t traceable to or discriminatory against children alleging climate harms, the Ninth Circuit said Thursday, handing a loss to youth plaintiffs.