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The Senate Ethics Committee is admonishing South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham for soliciting campaign contributions inside a federal building after a November 2022 Fox News interview in which he asked viewers to donate to a GOP candidate.

A New York grand jury is deciding whether to indict former President Donald Trump in a hush money investigation. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke to Political Analyst Larry Gerston for some insight.

Alvin Bragg sought to assure staffers in a memo that they’ll be safe.

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said he had national security concerns about the payments to the president’s son, brother and daughter-in-law.

First Amendment experts say attacks on free speech rights are escalating across the United States.

“I have yet to meet a person in Minnesota that is hungry,” GOP state Sen. Steve Drazkowski said ahead of a vote on the legislation.

A child marriage bill was passed by the West Virginia Senate on Friday night after it was changed to prohibit anyone younger than 16 from getting married and to ban age gaps of more than four years for 16- and 17-year-olds.

Slowly but surely, Decision 2024 is heating up, with more people posturing to make a run for the White House. NBC Bay Area’s Audrey Asitio spoke to Political Analyst Larry Gerston for some insight.

Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said under oath that he believes the 2020 presidential election was free, fair and not stolen.

A federal judge has convicted a military veteran of storming the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory.

Savage seeks to replace Rep. Adam Schiff, who is running for the Senate seat held by retiring Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

Self-help author Marianne Williamson has officially launched another longshot Democratic presidential campaign.

A former Colorado clerk who has become a hero to election conspiracy theorists has been convicted of a misdemeanor obstruction charge for trying to prevent authorities from taking an iPad she allegedly used to videotape a court hearing. The case is separate from Tina Peters’ alleged involvement in a security breach of voting machines. Jurors on Friday found Peters guilty...

Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland on Tuesday officially announced her campaign for the U.S. Senate seat to be vacated by Dianne Feinstein’s retirement. Abbey Fernandez reports.

Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland on Tuesday officially announced her campaign for the U.S. Senate seat to be vacated by Dianne Feinstein’s retirement.

President Biden is back in Poland after an unannounced visit with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Ukraine. NBC Bay Area’s Political Analyst Larry Gerston explains the importance of the visit and what it means for the U.S.

A Republican consultant was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for his role in conspiring to illegally funnel contributions from a Russian national to former President Donald Trump‘s 2016 presidential campaign. Jesse R. Benton, 45, of The Woodlands, Texas, was convicted in November on a series of charges including conspiracy, contribution by a foreign national, and causing false records to…

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., checked himself into Walter Reed Medical Center on Wednesday to be treated for clinical depression, according to his chief of staff.

Pence said he was prepared to take the case “as far as it needs to go, if needs be to the Supreme Court of the United States.”

Treasury will exhaust its emergency measures sometime between July and September unless Congress raises the debt ceiling, the Congressional Budget Office says.