Politics and Government

If elections were decided by viral videos and fawning media profiles, Democrat Beto O'Rourke would win Texas' Senate race in a landslide.

Sen. John McCain's final journey ended Sunday on a grassy hill at the U.S. Naval Academy within view of the Severn River and earshot of midshipmen present and future, and alongside a lifelong friend.

The father of slain Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts in a Saturday opinion piece spoke out against using his daughter's death in support of "views she believed were profoundly racist."

Keep the government running and confirm Brett Kavanaugh as the next Supreme Court justice. Those are the big-ticket items that Republican leaders in Congress hope to accomplish as lawmakers look to wrap up their work and head home to campaign for the November elections.

Wisconsin's tight race for governor is putting Republican Gov. Scott Walker on the defensive about his record on education, roads and health care, while his Democratic challenger faces accusations he mismanaged his duties as the state schools chief.

Over the course of Trump's presidency there has been an upward trend in tweets declaring everything from news to books "fake" or "phony."

Lori Alhadeff's mission is to make all U.S. schools safe, starting with Broward County, Fla. After her daughter was killed in February's mass shooting, politics has become her vehicle for change.

"There is no political necessity to keep Canada in the new NAFTA deal," Trump said in one of a series of tweets.

The net neutrality protections, which advocates call the strongest in the country, now go to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown.

Emmet Flood is currently the lawyer handling the Russia investigation for the White House, but his name comes up frequently as a possible replacement for outgoing White House counsel Don McGahn.