The illustrator Thomas Nast, born in 1840, is perhaps America's most famous political cartoonist. Among other things, he has ...

TORO, the mascot for the Houston Texans, is being inducted into the Mascot Hall of Fame. Andrew Johnson is the man behind the costume, who chose his career path in the 5th grade and trains like an ...

Republicans have their new bogeyman, and his name is Zohran Mamdani, the Mayor-elect of New York City. Following the Democratic Socialists’ win in New York City Tuesday night, Republicans quickly ...

WASHINGTON — Democrats took a victory lap on Wednesday after sweeping the first major elections since Donald Trump returned to the White House, a much-needed balm for a wounded party that had spent ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Two Democrats romped to wins over Republican incumbents in elections to the Georgia Public Service Commission on Tuesday, delivering the largest statewide margins of victory by ...

Democrat Abigail Spanberger won the Virginia governor’s race Tuesday, defeating Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears to give Democrats a victory heading into the 2026 midterm elections and make ...

Smokey, the bluetick coonhound in a checkered vest, has been the University of Tennessee's mascot for more than 70 years. Since 1953, there have been 11 different Smokey dogs, most of which came from ...

Senate Republicans and Democrats are trying to hammer out a proposal to end the 30-day government shutdown as soon as next week, as some centrist Democrats argue behind the scenes that their party has ...

A team of centrist Democratic consultants thinks they’ve figured out what went wrong in the 2024 election. The problem, apparently, was that the Democratic Party was insufficiently nostalgic for 1992.

A woman records Josh Shapiro as he launches his general election campaign for Pennsylvania governor on May 26, 2022, in Johnstown. (Justin Merriman/For The Washington Post) CANONSBURG, Pa. — Eugene ...

Lost in Cult will release physical editions of Kaizen Game Works-developed “open-world mascot management crime drama” game Promise Mascot Agency for PlayStation 5 and Switch, the distributor announced ...

Massachusetts is the historical home of the gerrymander. A historical marker in downtown Boston commemorates the salamander-shaped district drawn in 1812 to give an advantage to then-Gov. Elbridge ...