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.

“This was not a major topic of discussion at the bilateral meeting. We did not talk about chip export controls at the meeting,” US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says.

Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr on Thursday pushed back against proposals to shrink the central bank’s balance sheet, describing them as wrong and a threat to financial stability.

Anthropic PBC’s legal dispute with the US government over whether the company’s artificial intelligence models will be banned from federal agencies has emerged as a financial threat to other businesses.

Power prices on the largest electric grid in the US jumped 76% in the first quarter due to rampant demand from data centers, adding to pressure on its operator to alleviate the strain on consumers.

The Republican-controlled House tied on a vote to stop the US war against Iran in a sign of deepening political opposition to the conflict.

Minnesota homeowners will share $125 million in property tax relief under a framework budget agreement announced late Wednesday by Gov. Tim Walz (D) and legislative leaders.

The war in Iran has provided new impetus to the low-carbon transition as renewable energy is seen as less vulnerable to future price shocks, according to a group of corporate bosses and senior bankers.

President Donald Trump is calling for a suspension of the federal tax on gasoline as fuel prices soar because of the war with Iran.

Posillico Civil Inc. says the Department of Homeland Security unfairly funneled a majority of work under a $37 billion maximum value border infrastructure contract to two companies, and denied opportunities to other contractors.

The Trump administration is formally proposing to roll back wastewater limits for coal-fired power plants.

China agreed to buy 200 Boeing Co. planes, President Donald Trump said, in a multibillion-dollar deal that would mark the nation’s first purchase of US-made commercial jets in nearly a decade.

A defense contractor failed to convince a federal appeals court to allow it to challenge an explosive detection services procurement under which the US Postal Service awarded contracts to two other providers of detection dogs.

The State Bar of California’s board of trustees voted Thursday to unanimously recommend the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ NextGen Uniform Bar Exam for administration in July 2028 following the disastrous rollout, and rollback, of the state’s attempt to create its own exam.

The US Justice Department accused Yale University’s medical school of ongoing discriminatory admissions practices, according to a letter from the civil rights division shared by the agency on Thursday.

Key parts of Texas’ state-level migrant arrest and deportation law were blocked for a second time by a federal judge, who said he still believes authority to regulate immigration matters belongs only to the federal government.

A federal appeals court affirmed a ruling Thursday that a family’s trusts are liable for nearly $80 million in unpaid taxes, penalties, and interest tied to a stock-sale transaction structured to avoid taxes on appreciated corporate assets.

A divided US Supreme Court let a widely used abortion pill continue to be dispensed by mail, putting on hold a federal appeals court decision that had briefly required patients to make an in-person visit to a provider.

A jury will soon cast a vote and a judge will ultimately decide the outcome of a high-stakes showdown between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over OpenAI, the artificial intelligence startup they founded together more than a decade ago.