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.

When Washington Governor Bob Ferguson proposed the state’s first income tax in modern history, he said the word “affordability” five times.

Tesla Inc.’s door handles are facing renewed scrutiny in the US after federal auto safety regulators opened a probe into the emergency releases in certain Model 3 vehicles.

The Trump administration imposed visa bans on a former European official and several activists for trying to police online hate speech, drawing immediate rebukes from Paris and Berlin that the move amounted to unacceptable intimidation.

Russia may be getting help from Chinese satellite imaging data to carry out strikes on energy targets in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

A 27-year-old crude tanker that was supposedly scrapped in 2021 is due to reach Venezuela late this week, according to ship-tracking data, in the latest example of how the South American country keeps its embattled oil industry alive.

China is still restricting the rare earth elements that the US needs to produce its own permanent magnets and other products even after President Donald Trump reached a deal with his Chinese counterpart in October to lift restrictions on the supplies, according to market participants.

Large dollar amounts, constitutional questions, and corporate responsibility are at the center of several False Claims Act lawsuits that courts will address in 2026.

A federal judge correctly invalidated the leases of a private school and an oil drilling well on the US Department of Veterans Affairs’ Los Angeles campus, but was wrong to touch the lease for UCLA’s baseball stadium, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled.

Princeton University trustees, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other universities urged a federal appeals court against reversing an Energy Department policy that restricted certain types of funds for research.

The US fleet of F-35s, the most sophisticated stealth fighter jet in the world, was only available to fly half of the time because of poor maintenance by Lockheed Martin Corp., a government watchdog said.

The Trump administration is offering undocumented migrants $3,000 and paid travel if they agree to leave the US voluntarily before the end of the year, its latest effort to escalate mass deportations and slash enforcement costs.

President Donald Trump announced the Navy will build a new “Trump-class” battleship as part of the White House push to modernize a fleet that’s been hobbled by years of cost overruns and delays.

Florida transgender inmates in newly unsealed documents say their care was altered after Gov. Ron DeSantis was questioned about their treatment by a news outlet in the months leading up to his presidential campaign.

The Ohio Supreme Court reversed a tax board ruling granting soap maker VVF Intervest LLC a $350,000 CAT refund, finding that while Ohio was just one leg of a continuous delivery process, the state was still owed tax.

Minnesota is suing the Trump administration, alleging it has threatened to cut off federal funding for food assistance benefits if the state doesn’t comply with prescribed recertification procedures.

West Virginia may not enforce, at least for now, a law prohibiting the use color additives in food that are “poisonous or injurious to the health.”

A federal court ordered the Trump administration to reinstate whistleblower lawyer Mark Zaid’s security clearance after revoking it out of what the judge called “retribution.”

The attorneys who successfully represented employees challenging St. Louis schools’ Covid-19 vaccine policy on religious grounds won a $1.3 million payday.