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After 32 years in Congress, Ohio's Sherrod Brown lost his Senate seat in 2024 as many working class voters turned out for Trump. Now Brown is counting on union voters to send him back to Washington.
Civil lawsuits are now filed against the federal government on behalf of the family of Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman fatally shot in January by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in south Minneapolis.
The progressive Senate candidate is offering olive branches to Jewish voters and campaigning with Kamala Harris to attract Black voters. Polling shows it may be working.
Republicans lined up a series of doomed votes in their final hours, hoping to portray Democrats as obstructionists. But some conceded that their party was more likely to be punished.
The Supreme Court said it will consider whether the Trump administration can detain tens of thousands of immigrants without access to bond hearings.
“Our summers used to actually be summers,” one justice lamented.
The Senate confirmed Keith Sonderling to lead the Department of Labor on Wednesday, officially installing the nominee who has been leading in an acting capacity since Lori Chavez-DeRemer's exit in April.
Kansas has not sent a Democrat to the U. Senate since 1932 — but this year, the party hopes Adam Hamilton, former Republican who serves as pastor of a massive church, could flip the seat.