New analyses of the 2024 election confirm that for all the talk of alienated Americans, voter participation remains high.

The battle is drawing national attention because New Jersey is one of only two states this year — along with Virginia — holding gubernatorial elections in 2025. And they’re the first big races after President Donald Trump returned to office this year, making it an early barometer for what the public thinks of his controversial new administration.

President Donald Trump on Monday dropped a vulgar turn of phrase as he talked about how he’d vowed to avenge his 2020 election defeat, which he once again falsely claimed had been rigged against him,

Transgender people are traveling less and many are considering moving because of Trump policies, a survey shows.

But then former President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party “rigged” the election, he said, in reference to his baseless claim that the 2020 election results were stolen. “And then I said, you know what I’ll do? I’ll run again, and I’ll shove it up their ass,” Trump said. His remark was met with laughs and applause from the crowd.

Elon Musk and David Sacks, both White House advisers, weighed in separately on the election in Eastern Europe.

It’s come down to the wire in Oregon’s May 20 election as voters decide whom to elect to their local school and community college boards and weigh key money measures ahead of today’s 8 p.m. voting deadline.

Ed Gainey, who was elected to be Pittsburgh’s first Black mayor nearly four years ago, will face Corey O’Connor, the Allegheny County Controller and well-funded son of a beloved former mayor. The primary will probably decide the general election as well, since Pittsburgh has not elected a Republican mayor in nearly a century.