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Scores of government statisticians are gone, leaving data at risk, report says 12/10/2025 05:12pm • The ranks of U.S. government statisticians have been gutted in the past year due to layoffs and buyouts. That along with diminished funding and attacks on their independence have put at risk the data used to make informed decisions about everything from the nation’s economy to its demographics, ac Opponents of Trump-backed redistricting in Missouri submit a petition to force a public vote 12/10/2025 12:32am • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Opponents of Missouri's new congressional map submitted thousands of petition signatures Tuesday calling for a statewide vote on a redistricting plan backed by President Donald Trump as part of his quest to hold on to a slim Republican majority in next year's elections. Indiana Senate committee advance redistricting legislation backed by Trump toward final floor vote 12/09/2025 05:50am • State senators in Indiana advanced a proposal to redraw the state's congressional boundaries Monday, although it is not clear if it has the support to become law in a final vote expected later this week even after months of pressure from President Donald Trump. The legislation was designed to favor Democratic governors say the party's midterm strategy must focus on voters' pocketbook concerns 12/07/2025 07:23pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Democratic governors met this weekend in Arizona, looking to parlay last month’s big victories for the party in New Jersey and Virginia into campaigns for next year’s midterms, when a majority of governor's seats will be up for election. Those elections helped Democrats zero in Threats pile up as Indiana Republicans confront pressure from Trump on redistricting 12/06/2025 03:37pm • Spencer Deery's son was getting ready for school when someone tried to provoke police into swarming his home by reporting a fake emergency. Linda Rogers said there were threats at her home and the golf course that her family has run for generations. Jean Leising faced a pipe bomb scare that was em Detroit reflects on Mike Duggan's tenure as his final days in the mayoral office near 12/06/2025 10:47am • DETROIT (AP) — When Mayor Mike Duggan announced his plan to run for Michigan governor, he did so from a tower in the iconic but aging Renaissance Center overlooking Detroit. It's not the same city that Duggan inherited in January 2014. No longer defined by blocks of vacant houses, empty downtown s Indiana House Republicans pass Trump-backed map, setting up high-stakes Senate fight 12/05/2025 08:04pm • Indiana state House Republicans passed a new state congressional map Friday at the behest of President Donald Trump, advancing the legislation to the state Senate, where it is unclear if enough lawmakers will support its final passage. Lawmakers in the Republican-majority House voted 57-41 in favor Redistricting forced a California GOP congressman to weigh a Texas move. He tells AP why he’s not 12/05/2025 05:52pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — California Rep. Darrell Issa says he was asked by Texas colleagues to consider moving to Dallas to run for Congress after lawmakers in both states created a midterm scramble by redrawing congressional districts. But in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press on Friday How the UK's ancient stones are drawing renewed awareness of the sacred 12/05/2025 03:49pm • PENZANCE, England (RNS) — On a gray afternoon in November, a group of 19 people gathered outside the Church of St. Buryan, an iconic medieval parish with a 92-foot granite tower that dominates the skyline. Clad in raincoats, reflective vests, waterproof boots with some holding wooden staffs, these Tennessee special election shows the power of partisan gerrymandering as Trump pushes for more of it 12/04/2025 07:17pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As a leader of the College Democrats at Vanderbilt University, Luci Wingo knew the odds of a Democrat winning one of Nashville's three U.S. House seats weren't great. Yet her hope grew as the party mounted an aggressive campaign for its candidate, Aftyn Behn, in a special e Immigration crackdown in New Orleans has a target of 5,000 arrests. Is that possible? 12/04/2025 05:35pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Trump administration officials overseeing the immigration crackdown launched this week in New Orleans are aiming to make 5,000 arrests, a target that some city leaders who oppose the operation say is unrealistic and would require detainining more than just violent offenders. It Florida starts redistricting talks in a growing battle for House control in 2026 elections 12/04/2025 05:32pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s Republican-controlled House officially kicked off the first meeting of its select committee on congressional redistricting Thursday, as the state becomes the latest to consider redrawing electoral maps amid a partisan battle for every edge in next year’s midt Trump targets Minnesota's Somali community with harsh words and policies 12/03/2025 06:45pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Recent statements by President Donald Trump and top administration officials disparaging Minnesota's large Somali community have focused renewed attention on the immigrants from the war-torn east African country and their descendants. Trump on Tuesday said he did not want Somali Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says 12/02/2025 05:59pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal authorities are preparing a targeted immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota that would primarily focus on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S., according to a person familiar with the planning. The move comes as President Donald Trump again on Tuesday Marylanders' commute listed as 2nd-worst in the nation 12/02/2025 03:59am • Recently released Census Bureau data indicates Maryland commuters spend on average 31.5 minutes driving to work. The state ranked second to New York's 32.8-minute average commute in 2023, according to data extracted from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey. "The number did go up in t