The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting plan, delivering another major setback to the party in a nationwide battle against Republicans for an edge in this year's midterm elections. The court ruled 4-3 that the state's ...

PHOENIX (AP) — The only person ever charged in the unsolved 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay, whose case became emblematic of a crisis fueled by disproportionately high rates of violence faced by Native Americans, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison. U.S. ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Cameras won't be banned from the high-profile murder case of the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk, a Utah judge ruled Friday, saying coverage requests from news stations would continue to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Tyler Robinson's attorneys argued ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former sheriff's deputy was found guilty of reckless homicide at trial Thursday for shooting a Black man who was bringing sandwiches to his grandmother's house. The killing of Casey Goodson Jr. by Jason Meade in December 2020 had provoked outrage in Ohio. Trial ...

Republicans have opened up an advantage in a national redistricting battle among states after a pair of court rulings that weakened federal Voting Rights Act protections for minorities and invalidated a key Democratic redistricting effort. A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a ...

HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — Supreme Court justices are not "political actors," Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday, insisting unpopular court decisions are based solely on the law. "I think, at a very basic level, people think we're making policy decisions, we're saying we think this is how ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Tuesday's primary in Ohio set up two marquee matchups in November — a U.S. Senate race that will help determine control of the chamber and a governor's race in which Democrats see their best chance of victory in two decades. Another stunningly expensive Senate race ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam have donated $12.5 million toward blood cancer research and treatment. The donation includes $10 million to the Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre in England for research and drug development focused on chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A jury began deliberating Wednesday in the murder retrial of a former sheriff's deputy in Ohio charged in the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr. More than two years after a tumultuous first proceeding ended in mistrial, Jason Meade is once again awaiting a ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Dr. Amy Acton, a Democrat running unopposed in her party's primary for Ohio governor, faces some steep challenges in the coming general election. She is trying to be the first Democrat in 20 years to win the office in a state that has become dominated by Republicans. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Candidates for Ohio's top elected offices will stand before voters in a statewide primary on Tuesday, although many of them are already looking ahead to the November general election. Ohio is expected to play a high-profile role in the midterm elections, with a prominent ...

A real WKRP radio comes to Cincinnati, decades after the sitcom about a fictional station CINCINNATI (AP) — The radio station WKRP isn't dead, it's now live on air in Cincinnati. The call letters from the fictional station featured decades ago in a CBS sitcom were adopted by stations in the ...

A back-and-forth volley of congressional redistricting in states has changed the electoral battlefield ahead of the November midterm elections, as Republicans and Democrats each seek an edge in their push for control of the closely divided U.S. House. Florida's Republican-led Legislature is ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio has a contested Republican primary for governor fast approaching, but there are few signs that the top candidate sees it as a competitive race. Vivek Ramaswamy has parlayed his national name recognition, tech industry connections and alliance with President Donald ...

Rhetoric dehumanizing immigrant and Latino communities may appear more open and in-your-face in the current political climate. But that has not been a barrier for Latinos seeking elective office or high-level roles in government. Voters are choosing an increasing number of nonwhite Hispanic ...

Two years ago, Josephine Timperman arrived at college with a plan. She declared a major in business analytics, figuring she'd learn niche skills that would stand out on a resume and help land a good job after college. But the rise of artificial intelligence has scrambled those calculations. ...

Supreme Court denies appeal of ex-Ohio House speaker's and lobbyist's convictions in $60M scheme By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the racketeering convictions of imprisoned former Republican Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and ...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio has a contested Republican primary for governor fast approaching, but there are few signs that the top candidate sees it as a competitive race. Vivek Ramaswamy has parlayed his national name recognition, tech industry ...

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The accused gunman who tried to storm the ballroom at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner with guns and knives traveled across the country before the event and is believed to have been targeting ...

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Social media posts that appear to match the California man arrested Saturday in the shooting at the White House correspondents' dinner show he is a highly educated tutor and amateur video game developer. A May ...