Politics

Jurors appeared riveted as prosecutors on Thursday played a September 2016 recording that attorney Michael Cohen secretly made of himself briefing his celebrity client on a plan to buy Karen McDougal’s story of an extramarital relationship.

Jovokhir Attoev was released inside the U.S. in 2022. A year later, Uzbekistan put out a global notice that he was wanted for alleged ISIS ties. U.S. officials didn’t arrest him until 2024.

With early voting in Maryland’s Senate primary beginning this week, leading Democratic candidates Angela Alsobrooks and David Trone are highlighting their differences – including key endorsements — in a race where their policies are closely aligned. Alsobrooks, the Prince George’s county executive, and Trone, a businessman-turned-congressman,...

A new report released Tuesday details how oil and gas companies knew the consequences of their emissions since at least the 1960s. Congressional Democrats spent three years investigating the fossil fuel industry’s deception and highlighted their findings during a Senate hearing on Wednesday. National climate reporter Chase Cain recaps the milestone...

The Arizona Senate voted Wednesday to pass a repeal of the near-total ban on abortion from 1864 that was upheld by the battleground state’s Supreme Court last month.

The Brennan Center survey also found 62% of local election officials are concerned about political leaders’ attempting to interfere with how they do their jobs.

Candidates for Maryland’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate Angela Alsobrooks and David Trone share why they’re running and where they stand on the issues. News4’s Tracee Wilkins, who has covered Maryland politics for years, reports.

Donald Trump has been held in contempt of court and fined $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his New York hush money case.

A letter obtained by NBC News says action is pending because of Fox’s alleged “conspiracy and subsequent actions to defame Mr. Biden and paint him in a false light.”

Do you need to be in a political party to vote in the 2024 Maryland primary? How can you register to vote in Maryland? Is same-day registration is available?

Former President Donald Trump met privately over breakfast with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Sunday, six sources said.

President Joe Biden on Saturday used his White House correspondents’ dinner speech to swipe at former President Donald Trump, taking shots at the presumptive GOP nominee while highlighting the stakes of the election.