Nearly five months after the 2024 elections, a legal fight is raging in battleground North Carolina in an unsettled and contentious state Supreme Court race. At stake – an eight-year term on the highest court in the nation’s ninth most populous state. After two recounts, incumbent Allison Riggs, a Democrat, leads Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin by 734 votes out of more than 5.5 million cast. Griffin, who sits...

It’s Election Day in a western Pennsylvania legislative district in a race that will determine whether the Democrats regain control of the battleground state’s lower chamber or if Republicans win back the State House majority. The Pennsylvania State House is currently deadlocked, with Democrats and Republicans each controlling 101 seats. Democrats lost their razor-thin majority in January after the death of state Rep. Matt Gergerly.  Voters in District...