Former President Barack Obama addresses the Obama Foundation’s 2024 Democracy Forum in Chicago on Dec. 5, 2024. Scott Olson/Getty Images Former President Barack Obama joined California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Oct. 22 for a virtual volunteer event urging support for Proposition 50, the ballot measure that would let California redraw its congressional maps in response
The Department of Justice is preparing to send federal election observers to California and New Jersey next month, targeting two Democratic states holding off-year elections following requests from state Republican parties. The department announced Friday that it is planning to monitor polling sites in Passaic County, New Jersey, and five counties in southern and central
Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are seen in a combination of file photographs as they campaign on Jan. 5, 2021. Reuters A small but growing group of Senate Democrats is splitting with party leaders on how to handle the ongoing government shutdown. The breaks have come on two tracks—votes to
Only Black Republican in Virginia legislature faces threats from Democratic campaign worker, highlighting rising political tensions statewide.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) speaks during the fifteenth day of the government shutdown at a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 15, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) endorsed the Democratic Party’s nominee for mayor of New York, state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D-Astoria), on Oct.
Religious tensions escalate in New York City mayoral contest as leading candidate Zohran Mamdani faces criticism from Jewish community criticizing "Islamophobic" attacks from rivals.
Fallen shipping containers (L) next to stacks of leaning containers on a vessel moored at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif., on Sept. 9, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer announced on Oct. 24 a new investigation into whether China upheld the “Phase One” agreement