The Latest Breaking News on US Politics

The Universities of Wisconsin and Assembly Republican Speaker Robin Vos have reached a sweeping deal that would freeze hiring for diversity positions across the system in exchange for lawmakers approving employee pay raises and funding for a new engineering building at the flagship campus

Massachusetts’ attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing a white nationalist group of civil rights violations, saying it repeatedly subjected LGBTQ+ events and facilities sheltering migrant families to intimidation and harassment

Congressional Republicans have used Hunter Biden’s legal problems, past drug use, and foreign business dealings to open an impeachment inquiry into the president, despite no evidence supporting any links to the elder Biden, Gustaf Kilander writes

Some Republican Missouri lawmakers are renewing their call to allow homicide charges against women who have abortions

A judge has found the New Hampshire publisher of a weekly community newspaper guilty of five misdemeanor charges that she ran advertisements for local races without properly marking them as political advertising

"Any competent lawyer on the planet" would warn Trump against testifying, former prosecutor says

A political vacuum has formed in the most populous state, home to the last two House speakers and a departed senior senator

Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s departure from Congress brings to mind ambition and the other side of ambition’s coin, humiliation – the thirst for fame and power on one side, ignominious failure on the other.

The state senate is considering a bill to prohibit doctors from offering gender-affirming care to trans patients younger than 18

President Joe Biden’s scandal-plagued son is accused of skipping out on $1.4m tax payment – instead using the money to fund an extravagant lifestyle of drugs, escorts and fast cars. Rachel Sharp reports

Late-night hosts discuss the fourth Republican presidential debate, Vivek Ramaswamy and Trump’s civil fraud trial