BALTIMORE — The screen at Baltimore’s Senator Theatre faded to black.

The film the crowd gathered to see had ended on a somber note. Mayor Brandon Scott’s quest to reduce homicides in Baltimore remained unrealized by the time filmmakers behind “The Body Politic” stopped shooting the first-term mayor around the end of 2021. Scott’s ...Read more

ATLANTA — As campaign efforts ramp up in Georgia ahead of a busy election season, candidates will need to court not only native Georgians, but also registered voters who have moved into the state since 2020, with Democrats apparently having an edge over Republicans.

Georgia gained about 13,500 more likely Democratic voters than Republican ...Read more

Dueling Senate hearings earlier this month focused on Boeing's safety culture, with whistleblower testimony that lawmakers called troubling as they pledged to further address the company's problems.

A Federal Aviation Administration-appointed panel addressing the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on April 17 ...Read more

April 2024 proved to be a busy month in Japanese-U.S. diplomacy.

The month saw a state visit to the U.S. by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida that included a White House sit-down with President Joe Biden on April 10. The next day, both men were joined by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for the first-ever U.S.-Japan-Philippines ...Read more

The Detroit metropolitan area is one of the most segregated areas in the United States.

But that is slowly starting to change for some racial groups.

The slow change is driven by the fact that the region became more racially and ethnically diverse between 2010 and 2022.

However, change is not happening uniformly, and ...Read more

In April, Wisconsin joined 27 other states that have banned or restricted local governments’ use of private donations to run cash-strapped election offices, buy voting equipment or hire poll workers for Election Day.

All of the state laws came in the past four years, pushed by conservative lawmakers and activists who claim that Democratic ...Read more

Japan’s ruling party lost a special election Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had described in part as a judgment on himself, months ahead of a party leadership vote.

Public anger over a slush fund scandal helped the main opposition candidate Akiko Kamei defeat the Liberal Democratic Party’s Norimasa Nishikori by about 83,000 votes to 58,000 in...Read more

Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis met on Sunday to discuss the possibility of tapping DeSantis’ donor network, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The Miami meeting is a sign of rapprochement between the former president and his one-time opponent after a period of rocky relations, heightened by Trump’s attacks on ...Read more

Joe Biden’s allies are racing to blunt the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., casting his third-party effort as a stalking-horse bid designed to boost Donald Trump’s chances — even as Kennedy's wide-ranging policy positions make him a threat to both.

Kennedy injected new urgency into the Democratic effort this month by ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Tempted to make a bet on the rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump?

There are a lot of reasons that would be a bad idea. Here’s a big one — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Polls, pollsters and pundits disagree about how much support Kennedy has — or even which candidate he potentially would hurt more...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Mystery, sniping and challenged ballots — all swirl around the extraordinary recount in the Congressional District 16 race as it drags into its third week.

Who will emerge the victor — if anyone — between Assemblymember Evan Low and Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian who are in a dead heat for second place?

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WASHINGTON — When President Joe Biden returned to the White House after delivering his State of the Union address, 23-year-old TikTok influencer Awa Sanneh joined roaring cheers alongside administration staffers gathered on the mansion’s back porch.

Biden told the group “how important” social media content is to reach Gen-Z voters, ...Read more

On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, forever changing baseball and society.

Robinson was Black, and the integration of all-white major league baseball was perhaps the most important story about civil rights in the years immediately following World War II.

The integration, Jules ...Read more

Idaho’s medical community has been saying for the past two years — since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — that Idaho’s strict abortion ban is jeopardizing medical care when the health of the mother is at risk.

Idaho’s abortion laws take into account only risks to the life of the mother.

The laws are the subject of a ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s opposition presidential candidate Xochitl Galvez is running out of opportunities to mount a serious challenge against President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s anointed successor, trailing by a wide margin in polling just five weeks before election day.

On Sunday, in the second of three debates against front-runner ...Read more

WASHINGTON — To curb the use of U.S.-made civilian guns in crimes and human rights abuses abroad, the Biden administration will require exporters to better vet their customers and tighten sales to 36 countries deemed “high-risk” for illicit diversion of semiautomatic firearms.

The new rules — the most sweeping in decades — also cut ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A congressional hopeful’s effort to be on GOP ballot in June received a blow when a federal judge Thursday denied his request to stop ballot printing with his name left off.

Michael LaPierre, who filed to run as a Republican in the 3rd Congressional District but was not allowed to be on the ballot, sued the S.C. GOP and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump wished his wife Melania a happy birthday walking into his hush money trial Friday — a day after former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker said the former president never mentioned worrying about what she thought about his alleged affairs at the heart of the state’s case against him.

“I want to start by ...Read more