JB Pritzker

Lynn Davenport, a lifelong conservative, met Donald Trump backstage at a Texas rally in 2016

As much of the attention in Texas this fall has focused on the U.S. Senate race between Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton, another statewide contest has been tightening under the radar: Governor Greg Abbott's bid for a record fourth term

Several executives gathered at the White House have called for slowdown in development of technology after several incidents of AI agents having gone rogue

But while the administration has championed the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure, recent polls suggest many Americans are wary of the massive facilities being built to power the technology

The left's push to rein in AI is taking shape on two fronts: slowing advanced development at home, and weakening China's progress abroad

President Trump has targeted Pritzker’s weight in several personal attacks

Republicans on Capitol Hill are grappling over whether and how to regulate artificial intelligence companies even as top AI business leaders warn the technology could pose an existential threat to humanity

OpenAI discloses new instances of its models going rogue CNN

Plus, Ryan J. Reilly and Kelly O’Donnell dig into the attorney general’s unusual political appearances

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro on Thursday accused President Donald Trump's administration of helping China gain ground in the artificial intelligence race by allowing Nvidia to sell advanced AI chips to approved Chinese customers

Trump gives nonsensical answer when quizzed about delay for his $5,000 ‘dividends’

With less than two months until the midterm elections — and early voting just weeks away — President Donald Trump and the GOP kicked off their convention on Wednesday as Republicans fight to keep control of Congress

There were a few hundred Democrats gathered at a venue called Lofty Spaces in Dallas on Monday, in a sweltering heat that could not hold back the annual Labor Day political rally

JB Pritzker is planning to invest $20 million in the 2026 midterm elections, Politico reported

Massachusetts’ 80-year-old senator sees off primary challenge over his age

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have previously pushed back against Trump's efforts to send federal troops into Chicago

Democratic strategist James Carville went after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) over his recent meeting with President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner

Fox News presenter Joey Jones is under fire following a three-minute on-air outburst targeting service members deployed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln who recently voiced concerns about deteriorating shipboard conditions

The Chicago Bears are one of the more historic franchises in the NFL

A reported Iranian-linked threat involving a shoulder-fired missile triggered an extraordinary Secret Service operation to move President Donald Trump out of Turkey after a July NATO summit

Some media commentators questioned whether the operation left Trump's aides and journalists traveling with him at risk aboard the plane presumed to be carrying the president

President Trump took secret flight out of July's NATO summit due to Iranian missile threat; storms hit Midwest as wildfires rage in western states

The five supermajors, comprising Exxon Mobil, Chevron, BP, Shell and TotalEnergies, generated a whopping $48 billion profit in the April to June period, benefitting from higher fossil fuel prices amid hostilities between the U.S. and Iran

In weather so chilly that attendees could see their own breath, a small army of volunteers wearing Hong T-shirts set up a tent and fanned out in the crowd

Shouqing Zhu is a senior policy adviser at the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)

The Families Receiving Emergency Support for Hunger, or FRESH, program will distribute up to $70 million to qualifying residents without requiring them to submit an application

JB Pritzker (D) on Monday signed a bill making the state the country’s first to mandate that the largest artificial intelligence labs obtain third-party audits of their safety plans

The responses range from patriotic classics and Springsteen staples to a few deep cuts that may spark some debate at the backyard barbecue

JB Pritzker (D) called President Donald Trump’s controversial multi-million dollar Washington renovation projects “disgraceful” in a sit-down with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday

Trump rants about communists after canceling affordable housing bill signing

The strategies that led to the overturning of the Roe v. Wade abortion decision will not carry the movement forward after Dobbs

Speaking on Fox News, Blanche drew a distinction between cooperation among law enforcement agencies and support from elected officials

Trump’s comments came after Chicago police reported at least two dozen shooting incidents since Friday evening

From entire airplanes to spacecraft and deeply personal memorabilia, presidential libraries often double as something like a national attic, revealing quirks and unexpected moments from those who held the highest office in the land

Pritzker called on state lawmakers this year to suspend incentives for two years while they hammer out a comprehensive review of the impact centers are having on communities

The Bears would foot the bill for ​construction -- the team has dedicated $2 billion in funding toward the project -- ​on land owned by the public

The Artificial Intelligence Non-Sentience and Responsibility Act is a recent Missouri bill that would have established that the technology cannot be granted legal personhood

President Donald Trump on Tuesday stressed the importance of establishing the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s “exclusive authority” over prediction markets and vowed to protect the cryptocurrency industry

The Chicago Bears' stadium saga has droned on for five years

Springfield’s agenda is back in motion, and so is everyone’s spin machine

Folks in the political class are beginning to think about the future, and about how brightly it could shine on them

As immigration crackdowns intensify, the series, Walk The Line: ICE Nation, tracks the Chinese families who risked it all to reach the US, while meeting unlikely migrant allies and young activists stepping into a national divide

At some point, leaders of the Democratic Party will have to confront the radicals in their midst

His reported column chronicles the inside conversations and major trends shaping U.S. politics

Rodric Bray led the opposition to those new congressional lines

This week's Supreme Court ruling weakening the Voting Rights Act has nullified some of the Democratic resistance that kept many states from pursuing extreme gerrymanders this election cycle

Padilla has more bona fides than most of his Democratic colleagues when it comes to election law — he served six years as California’s secretary of state and is now the highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Rules committee which oversees federal elections

The Trump administration's crackdown, which it dubbed Operation Midway Blitz, led to thousands of arrests and violent confrontations between federal ​immigration agents and protesters

President Trump praised U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday for authoring the court’s landmark decision to limit a central provision of the Voting Rights Act