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 Pentagon said it was permanently cutting about 4,000 soldiers from Europe as part of a broader review of forces that has generated anxiety among US allies on the continent and elsewhere in the world.

Donald Trump’s hand-picked candidate for a congressional seat in Northern Kentucky, Ed Gallrein, defeated the president’s nemesis and longtime GOP House member Thomas Massie in one of the most expensive primaries on record.

Meta Platforms Inc. is alerting thousands of employees that they’re being laid off, part of a previously announced restructuring aimed at improving efficiency and reducing costs while investing heavily in artificial intelligence.

Representative Mike Collins is projected to advance to a runoff in the Republican Senate primary in Georgia, according to DDHQ.

US President Donald Trump denied reports that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, offered a bleak assessment of Russia’s war in Ukraine, including claiming that Vladimir Putin would regret invading his neighbor.

Colorado voters will be asked to decide whether the state should break through constitutionally required caps on the use of tax revenue in a bid to provide more funding for education.

India is preparing to send vessels through the Strait of Hormuz to load up energy cargoes from suppliers in the Middle East, according to people familiar with the matter, the first time since the Iran conflict began that the country will do so.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. enlisted health official Stephanie Haridopolos to temporarily take on some of the responsibilities of the US surgeon general, he said in an email to staff viewed by Bloomberg News.

A federal appeals court appeared skeptical of Anthropic’s bid to block the Pentagon from declaring that the company poses a supply-chain risk to US national security, a move that led to a ban on government use of its artificial intelligence technology.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement should reconsider its award of a nearly $27 million operations and maintenance services contract to KCorp Reliance Company Inc., the GAO said in a decision released Tuesday.

The EEOC’s plan to stop collecting employers’ race and gender data will cut off a decades-old tool that’s allowed the commission to focus antidiscrimination enforcement strategies and individual investigations.

The Trump administration is working with Congress to suspend federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel as the war in Iran drives up oil and fuel costs.

A panel of federal judges said Tuesday that it won’t force Louisiana to use an old congressional district map in 2026 that the US Supreme Court ruled was racially gerrymandered.

The Justice Department’s new $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund lacks the rigorous controls that typically guide programs compensating victims out of litigation settlements or congressional mandates, said officials involved in prior efforts.

A federal trial court judge set an improperly high standard as she denied an airline engine parts company a preliminary injunction in its trade secrets lawsuit against an ex-employee of 26 years, the Sixth Circuit said.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP lost its bid for an immediate appeal of a ruling keeping it in a suit over Clarivate Plc public offerings that it audited, leaving courts split on auditor liability.

President Donald Trump scored a major legal victory over the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday as the agency he has long reviled was barred by the Justice Department from continuing any “known and unknown” probes into his tax returns.

A panel of Ninth Circuit judges pressed Justice Department attorneys Tuesday on the department’s authority and purpose for collecting sensitive voter registration information from California and Oregon.