CINCINNATI (AP) — A panel of federal judges ruled Friday that Ohio’s congressional districts were unconstitutionally drawn by the Republicans for their political advantage, and it ordered a new map for the 2020 elections. The…

If you’ve been waiting for a chance to serve on your local city council or school board, now’s the time to decide. Candidates have about five weeks, until noon on June 3, to file for…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to be headed toward a historic fifth term as Israel’s prime minister today, with close-to-complete unofficial election results giving his right-wing Likud and other nationalist and religious parties a…

In the final weeks before the 2008 election, Barack Obama’s campaign sent mailers to Florida voters reassuring them that he supported the Second Amendment. In the opening days of the 2020 Democratic primary, it’s hard…

Forty years ago, military veterans made up roughly three-quarters of Congress. By 2017, the proportion had dwindled to fewer than one in five. The number of veterans on Capitol Hill will dip slightly again next…

When North Carolina’s Republican legislative leaders have seen their work struck down in court as unconstitutional — as they have many times — they have frequently responded by attacking the judge or judges as partisan…

According to the official tally released Friday, voter turnout among Kansans for the 2018 midterm election bested that of 2014’s midterm by 20 percent.  A full 58 percent of the state’s 1,841,776 registered voters participated;…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — More than 1 million Kansas residents voted in the state’s general election earlier this month to set a record for a non-presidential year. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Friday…

WASHINGTON — Is “Democratic discipline” an oxymoron? For years, it was. But in the 2018 midterm elections, Democrats prevailed in the House because they managed to keep a singular and unrelenting focus on health care…

An ancient political adage holds that winning elections is about addition, not subtraction — that parties succeed by building the broadest coalitions they can. Donald Trump, who became president by defying the rules, tried to…