What to Watch in Tuesday’s Primaries

GOP Rep. Martha McSally is facing two other Republicans for the GOP nomination for Senate. Voters in three states - Arizona, Florida and Oklahoma - head to the polls Tuesday in some of this year's latest nominating contests, including a critical Senate race and about half a dozen open-seat primaries.

Pentagon Will Miss John McCain, Its Friend and Foe

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., brought a unique and formidable background to his oversight of the Defense Department and its contractors and allies.  To the Pentagon, its contractors and allies on the congressional defense committees - the so-called iron triangle -  John McCain could be either the U.S. military's strongest proponent or its harshest critic.

Kushner and Lighthizer Pressed for Deal Before Mexican President Leaves Office

McCain appears to criticize Trump in farewell message to the nation - The Arizona Republican's moving final words were read to the public by his close friend Rick Davis in Arizona. - Sen. John McCain, who passed away Saturday from brain cancer, penned a farewell message before he died Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance - A leftist journalist's bruising crusade against establishment Democrats - and their Russia obsession.

Insults, straight talk, expertise – McCain knew how to attract the media

McCain appears to criticize Trump in farewell message to the nation - The Arizona Republican's moving final words were read to the public by his close friend Rick Davis in Arizona. - Sen. John McCain, who passed away Saturday from brain cancer, penned a farewell message before he died Nuns Killed Children, Say Former Residents Of St. Joseph's Catholic Orphanage - Millions of American children were placed in orphanages.

What to watch during elections in Florida, Arizona, Oklahoma

Voters in Arizona, Florida and Oklahoma head to the polls in the final multistate elections of the 2018 primary season. They offer another test of President Donald Trump's imprint on the Republican Party.

State attorney says there’s evidence of voter fraud in hotly contested Alaska House district

Alaska elections officials said Monday that they've asked criminal investigators to examine "irregularities" with absentee ballots in a hotly contested Anchorage House district - including seven absentees requested in the names of dead people. The irregularities are evidence of voter fraud, according to one state attorney, Margaret Paton-Walsh.

Trump White House resumes flag tribute to McCain after criticism

The White House lowered its flag to half-staff Monday afternoon following a barrage of criticism for ending the tribute to deceased Sen. John McCain just one day after he died. President Donald Trump refused to say a word about McCain during events at the White House on Monday, where flags flew at full-staff for most of the day in contrast to honors the late senator received elsewhere in Washington and across the country.

McCain’s death shadows Republican primary in Arizona

Shadowed by the death of six-term Sen. John McCain, Arizona voters are nominating candidates to replace his seat-mate in a primary contest that lays bare the fissures in a Republican Party dramatically remade by President Donald Trump. Three Republicans are vying Tuesday to replace Sen. Jeff Flake, who is retiring after his fierce criticism of Trump made his political future in the state untenable.

US lawmaker asks Washington to demand Pyongyang return USS Pueblo: report

A US congressman has sent White House security adviser John Bolton a letter asking Washington to demand that Pyongyang return the US intelligence ship Pueblo to the US Navy, the Voice of America reported Tuesday. According to VOA's Korean service, John Faso, a Republican congressman from New York, said in the letter dated Saturday that the United States should use the repatriation of the ship as a bargaining chip in its negotiations with North Korea.

Judges: Congress map still unlawful with partisan bias Source: AP

Federal judges on Monday affirmed their earlier decision striking North Carolina's congressional districts as unconstitutional because Republicans drew them with excessive partisanship. Acting under an order of the U.S. Supreme Court to re-examine the case, the three-judge panel ruled again in favor of election advocacy groups and Democrats who had sued to challenge the boundaries drawn in 2016.

Kavanaugh’s support for surveilling Americans raises concern Source: AP

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has frequently supported giving the U.S. government wide latitude in the name of national security, including the secret collection of personal data from Americans. It's a subject Democrats plan to grill Kavanaugh about during his confirmation hearings scheduled to begin next Tuesday.