Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from his latest hospitalization Tuesday, officials said, as he endures a difficult recovery from prostate cancer that included surgery in December and a lengthy stay in intensive care last month. Austin, 70, was discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland about 3:30 p.m., the Pentagon said […]Read More

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Republicans approved maps Tuesday that would weaken their ironclad grip on the state legislature, backing new district lines supported by the Democratic governor out of fears that the state’s top court could impose ones that are even worse for them. If approved by Gov. Tony Evers, the package would jettison what […]Read More

House Republicans careened Tuesday evening toward another vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his stewardship of the U.S. immigration system. If they succeeded, Mayorkas would be the first sitting Cabinet member in 150 years to receive such a censure amid loud Republican criticism of the Biden administration’s immigration policies. Republican House Speaker […]Read More

A few months after Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election, Michael Whatley, the chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, alerted GOP faithful to what he portrayed as a two-decade quest by Democrats to cheat their way to power, beginning with the contested 2000 election. “We knew, if we were not there, they were […]Read More

Mazi Pilip, the Republican in New York’s 3rd Congressional District race, is not well-known on Long Island. She had just started her second term as a Nassau County legislator when the local Republican Party tapped her to run for the congressional seat. Pilip, 44, is a mother of seven children who was born in Ethiopia, […]Read More

Tom Suozzi, the Democrat in New York’s 3rd congressional race, is well-known on Long Island. Twenty years ago, he was a mayor and rising star in the Democratic Party. Now, at 61, Suozzi is in a neck-and-neck race with little-known Republican Mazi Pilip, and barely mentions in his ads that he is a Democrat. And […]Read More

Tom Suozzi, the Democrat in New York’s 3rd congressional race, is well-known on Long Island. Twenty years ago, he was a mayor and rising star in the Democratic Party. Now, at 61, Suozzi is in a neck-and-neck race with little-known Republican Mazi Pilip, and barely mentions in his ads that he is a Democrat. And […]Read More

Mazi Pilip, the Republican in New York’s 3rd Congressional District race, is not well-known on Long Island. She had just started her second term as a Nassau County legislator when the local Republican Party tapped her to run for the congressional seat. Pilip, 44, is a mother of seven children who was born in Ethiopia, […]Read More

A few months after Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election, Michael Whatley, the chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, alerted GOP faithful to what he portrayed as a two-decade quest by Democrats to cheat their way to power, beginning with the contested 2000 election. “We knew, if we were not there, they were […]Read More