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ATLANTA —  The special grand jury in Atlanta that has been investigating whether then-President Trump and his allies committed any crimes while trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia …

RIFLE, Colo. —  Debbie Hartman voted for Lauren Boebert for Congress in 2020 and again in 2022, delighted by Boebert’s unequivocal stance on cultural issues that animate the Republican Party’s far-right …

State Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton), who was instrumental in passing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature mental health care legislation last year, has been appointed to lead the Senate’s influential health …

WASHINGTON —  The television split screen told the story. On one side, Republicans in the House of Representatives labored through the fourth of the 15 ballots they needed during four days …

Kavon Ward vividly remembers the sunny day in September 2021 when she won. When Black people won. Gov. Gavin Newsom had traveled to the overwhelmingly white city of Manhattan Beach …

CUIDAD JUAREZ, Mexico  —  Sitting on train tracks a few hundred feet south of the U.S. border, Nathalie Gonzalez, 23, pulled her 4-year-old daughter a little closer. Night was coming. …

He raised the money. He logged the campaign miles. He walked the halls in a crisp suit with a salesman’s gleam. But this week Kevin McCarthy ran headlong into the …

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our local elections newsletter. It’s Ben Oreskes here back from vacation and happy to be serving up news about this …

WASHINGTON —  Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) was elected speaker of the House early Saturday morning after four days and 15 ballots, resuscitating a chamber that had been paralyzed as it endured …

After a week of negotiations with a handful of opponents, Rep. Kevin McCarthy finally appears poised to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Bakersfield Republican’s unusually drawn-out …