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.

Rep. Jim Clyburn, the sole Black Democrat representing South Carolina in the US House, is adamant that he’s running for reelection regardless of whether GOP lawmakers succeed in redrawing the state’s map to make his district more Republican.

Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sidestepped questions at a Senate hearing Tuesday surrounding gifts he and his family accepted from a nonprofit funded by businesses his agency oversees.

The US Justice Department said Tuesday that it had filed criminal charges against four of the world’s largest makers of shipping containers and their top executives for allegedly colluding to raise prices during the pandemic.

US regulators unveiled a proposal to overhaul how examiners secretly rate banks, a move likely to be cheered by lenders who have long griped about the process.

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.

The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum location would be designated at a specified site on the National Mall under a modified version of H.R. 1329.

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.

NATO is discussing the possibility of helping ships pass through the blocked Strait of Hormuz if the waterway isn’t reopened by early July, according to a senior official in the military alliance.

Next Jump co-CEOs Charlie Kim and Meghan Messenger were acquitted following a second trial on allegations they bribed now-retired four-star Admiral Robert Burke in exchange for steering Navy business to the workforce-training company, defense counsel announced.

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.

It’s not often that scenarios used by scientists to anticipate the impacts of climate change get wide public attention. But a recent journal article on warming scenarios has provoked discussion globally, including in the White House.

A contingent of Democrats joined Republicans to confirm a former House lawyer and federal prosecutor nominated by President Donald Trump to the South Carolina federal bench.

A Pennsylvania school district’s method of selecting which property tax assessments to appeal doesn’t violate the state constitution’s promise of uniform tax application, the divided state high court held Tuesday.

The South Carolina Supreme Court during oral arguments Tuesday appeared unconvinced that Beaufort County’s law enforcement service charge on Hilton Head property owners is a tax rather than a user fee.