Former Ohio Gov. Bob Taft described himself as “a conservative” while declaring his plan to vote for incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in the Buckeye State’s 2024 U.S. Senate race. Taft, who served as governor from early 1999 through early 2007, is the great-grandson of the late President William Howard Taft, who, years after his presidency, went on to serve as chief justice of the Supreme Court, making...

A New York House Republican is accusing a Democrat colleague of refusing to let him cosponsor a pro-contraception bill, which is now leaving him open to attack ads by his election opponent.  Rep. Marc Molinaro, R-N.Y., took to X on Monday to share emails from his staff written in June to Rep. Kathy Manning, D-N.C., asking that he be added as a cosponsor to the Right to Contraception Act, a...