Some 250 years after “Common Sense” helped inspire the 13 colonies to declare independence, Thomas Paine might receive a long ...

A Florida school district “cut ties” with controversial Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback after a student claimed he had an “inappropriate relationship” with her while she was underage ...

Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down a revolt from House Republican women. Several female lawmakers have been increasingly defying Johnson, R-La., on legislative matters and lobbing public broadsides ...

Republican Matt Van Epps has won a hotly contested special election for a deep-red congressional seat in Tennessee, NBC News projects, seeing off a Democratic challenge for the longtime GOP district.

In April 1916, 80 to 100 members of the Spokane County Progressive Party held their county convention and elected 22 delegates for the state convention in June. The progressives, also nicknamed the ...

The postmortems for Republicans’ lackluster results in this month's spate of elections in New Jersey, Virginia and beyond are in, and while pet theories abound, there is one thing almost everyone ...

After weeks of seemingly nonstop political ads and a texting scandal that rocked the race for attorney general, Virginia's highly anticipated elections drew to a dramatic close with an apparent ...

When Dick Cheney took the stage at 2000 Republican National Convention as the party's nominee for vice president, he spent much of his speech singing the praises of his running mate, George W. Bush.