Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.) last week became the fifth member of the 119th Congress to die in office, continuing an upward trend in the number of member deaths seen in recent years. Scott’s death puts the current two-year session — which began January 2025 and ends January 2027 — on track to surpass recent congressional...

Democrats hold a 10-point advantage over Republicans on a generic congressional ballot, according to the latest in a series of polls showing the party in a strong position ahead of November’s midterm elections. In a three-day Emerson College Polling survey, conducted this past weekend, 50 percent of likely voters said they would back a generic...

Voters are starting to trust Democrats more on the economy, offering a potential opening for the party to regain ground on kitchen-table issues ahead of November’s midterms. For the first time since 2010, Americans say they trust Democrats more than Republicans — 52 percent to 48 percent — to handle the economy, according to the latest...

The German airline Lufthansa said it would cut 20,000 flights in the coming months to accommodate rising jet fuel costs amid the ongoing war with Iran. The schedule adjustments will affect “unprofitable short-haul flights” in Europe through the end of October, the Lufthansa Group said in a press release Tuesday. Flight changes through the end...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pushed back on concerns that the department’s modernization push could replace human air traffic controllers with artificial intelligence tools. In an interview with CBS News on Tuesday, Duffy said he sees potential for AI to make the nation’s airspace safer, while insisting human controllers will retain final authority in important decisions....

Michigan officials are pushing back on the Justice Department’s demand that the state provide ballots and other elections materials from the Detroit area to prove that no fraud took place in the 2024 election. Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, sent a letter on Tuesday to the chief election official for Wayne...