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 has named major pharmaceutical contractor WuXi AppTec Co. on a list of firms associated with the Chinese military, a move that could threaten its business and complicate research being done by American drugmakers.

The race for California governor is on track for a two-person runoff in November between veteran Democratic politician Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton, a British-born television personality endorsed by President Donald Trump.

Elon Musk unveiled a more detailed look at an initial version of an AI data center satellite SpaceX plans to build, providing fresh insight into the ambitious project driving the company’s highly anticipated initial public offering.

President Xi Jinping vowed to expand China’s trade, agriculture and technology cooperation with North Korea, while avoiding public mentions of its neighbor’s nuclear program in a meeting with Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang.

Tighter US sanctions on Cuba have led to a spike in infant mortality and plummeting survival rates for child cancer patients, the United Nations warned in one of its strongest rebukes of Washington’s pressure campaign against the island.

The Senate Appropriations Committee scuttled plans to mark up spending bills for the upcoming fiscal year this week, after Democrats balked at initial offers on a topline spending deal, the panel’s Republican chair said Monday.

The entities transforming New York’s Penn Station are slated to learn how much federal money will be directed to the project in about six months, according to Peter Cipriano, chief executive officer of the Halmar-Skanska consortium, the renovation’s master developer.

A new government-wide inspector general office for fraud that would assume functions of a Covid-era oversight council would be established under H.R. 8312.

The House passed a bill Monday to prohibit individuals convicted of certain felony offenses from receiving federal grants or contracts.

Accenture Federal Services can perform a $1.4 billion enterprise IT task order for the US Army Corps of Engineers, the GAO said in a decision made public on Monday.

The US Air Force reasonably found that ties to Iran required denying a space launch software contract to Kayhan Space Corp., an autonomous space flight services company, the US Court of Federal Claims said in an opinion released Monday.

Iran’s economy was already under strain before the US and Israel launched their war on the Islamic Republic. Those problems have been compounded by strikes on the country’s civilian and industrial infrastructure and the US naval blockade of Iranian ports.

Los Angeles violated an Australian reporter’s First Amendment right to cover an immigration protest when she was struck by a rubber bullet, a new federal lawsuit says.

A group of 14 transgender women succeeded in convincing a federal district court to grant a preliminary injunction preventing them from being transferred to male prison facilities under a Trump administration executive order.

A federal appellate court vacated the dismissal of a Black firefighter’s claim that an Illinois city violated federal anti-bias law and fired him in retaliation for speaking to the EEOC about alleged race discrimination within his department.

Lawyers in court battles over FTX’s collapse are accusing attorneys for one group of plaintiffs of filing a legal brief with AI-generated hallucinations.

Paramount Skydance Corp. has submitted suggested terms to resolve an antitrust investigation by California and other states into its $110 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Michigan’s Democratic US senators gave President Donald Trump his first blue-state backing for a judicial nominee in his second term, a move likely to inflame progressives.