Some people want to keep politics out of sports, but 44-year-old Iowa state representative J.D. Scholten saved his local pro team by pitching a gem Saturday on a few hours notice.

Rep. Hillary Scholten won the Democratic primary for Michigan's 3rd Congressional District, a key swing race likely to help determine control of the House of Representatives.

Scholten said the House Democrats’ campaign arm “begged” him to run against Steve King in 2020. When King lost his primary, the DCCC lost interest.

Scholten’s law firm thought he was bargaining and offered him a paid leave, making him perhaps the best-paid baseball player in European history. In 2011, he returned to Europe a final time to ...

In 2022, Congresswoman Hillary Scholten became the first Democrat to represent the area in three decades. Now she faces Republican attorney Paul Hudson, who's hoping to flip the district back to red.

That same day, Scholten posted her own statement on Facebook saying that although Floyd’s death was a "grave injustice," the violence in Grand Rapids would make the community’s efforts to ...

Scholten's background is in immigration law and social work, she once served as attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice under President Barack Obama.

Hillary Scholten is a mother of two, a former attorney and now a Congresswoman-Elect. We sit down one-on-one with the first-ever woman to represent West Michigan in Congress. Creeping into the ...

J.D. Scholten, the progressive populist who nearly defeated Steve King two years ago in Iowa’s ruby-red 4th Congressional District, conceded to Republican state Sen. Randy Feenstra.

Scholten has stopped in all 374 towns in his district to meet with potential voters. On the day of his Spirit Lake parking lot rally, he stopped by a memorial to one of his political heroes ...