Ranked choice — in which candidates with the fewest votes are eliminated and their supporters’ backup picks get a boost — was critical to the 2022 mayoral contest. Taylor narrowly lost to Sheng Thao, ...

Christopher Cadelago is POLITICO’s new Editorial Director, California. Already a singular force in the California expansion as POLITICO’s California Bureau Chief, Chris will assume full leadership of ...

Washington is exploring a new weapon in President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war: kicking Chinese companies off American stock exchanges.

Cody Balmer told police he had planned to beat Gov. Josh Shapiro with a sledgehammer if he encountered him, according to ...

A document obtained by POLITICO shows plans to zero out or substantially reduce spending on many programs, including ones ...

The companies went to the ballot after failing to defeat AB 5, a 2019 bill that made it harder for employers to classify ...

The agency asked laid-off workers to return after gutting the office that penalizes stores for selling tobacco to minors.

The industry, which Cuomo sought to win over with a recent mea culpa for his role in reforming the state’s rent laws, is full of deep-pocketed donors like the TF Cornerstone brothers who just gave a ...

Lawmakers are debating proposals to ban intoxicating hemp products, which could destroy thousands of businesses.

And it’s not only Democrats. In Florida, Republican state Sen. Don Gaetz, father of former U.S. House Rep. Matt Gaetz, has a ...

RUSSIA’S CIVILIAN TERROR STRATEGY — President Donald Trump described Russia’s double ballistic missile strike on the ...

The condensed timeline and low voter turnout special elections typically bring will make it harder to draw big conclusions from tonight’s results. But today’s primary still offers an early glimpse ...