The Virginia counties where Republicans will need to regain ground in the governor's race: From the Politics Desk ...

The nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report shifted its rating of the Maine Senate race from “lean Republican” ...

The mayoral race in Matthews is heating up as incumbent Mayor John Higdon faces challenger Leon Threatt next month.

The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority appeared open to weakening the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a way ...

The court's six conservatives sounded ready to rein in the historic Civil Rights Act in drawing congressional district lines.

Justices weigh whether race played too big a role in the state’s new congressional map — a ruling that could shift power in ...

The Supreme Court appears ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that's helped root out racial discrimination in ...

Justice Samuel Alito drilled down on whether race is a proxy for partisan affiliation, during an oral argument Wednesday in a ...

Andrew Cuomo is now running a campaign of attrition, hoping to get enough voters to come to him as the choice they’re least unhappy with. Zohran Mamdani wants to win by a margin big enough that he can ...

Virginia polls shifted dramatically after attorney general nominee Jay Jones' leaked violent texts, with Jason Miyares now ...

The seat, held by Republican Sen. Susan Collins, could be one of only a few realistic Senate pickup opportunities for ...

The US Supreme Court, hearing arguments Wednesday over a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, appeared inclined to limit ...