Historic Black Belt congressional district could elect first Republican since 1883

Princeville, North Carolina — On a single-lane road in Eastern North Carolina, surrounded by farmland, the congregation at Mark Chapel Baptist Church listens to a sermon on faith — and the importance of their vote as part of the “Black Belt,” a stretch of majority-Black congressional districts in the South.  The 1st Congressional District hasn’t

Gallego Makes Last-Ditch Appeal to AZ Supreme Court to Keep Divorce Records Sealed

Gallego presses for stay of lower court ruling that would unseal his divorce records Rubén Gallego in 2014 (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Arizona Senate candidate Ruben Gallego on Tuesday sought the intervention of the state’s Supreme Court to prevent the unsealing of his divorce records.  Lawyers for Gallego filed a motion to stay an appellate court

Trump won’t say if he’s spoken to Putin, but “if I did, it’s a smart thing”

Former President Donald Trump says he’s not commenting on the question of whether he’s spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin since he left office, after journalist Bob Woodward reported in his new book that the former president has had as many as seven conversations with the Russian leader. At the Economic Club of Chicago Tuesday,