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The Wall Street Journal asked a judge to dismiss President Donald Trump’s revised $10 billion defamation lawsuit over an article on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, arguing that the new complaint isn’t an improvement on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump got his mojo back with Republican primary voters Tuesday following a setback in Iowa last week when his preferred candidate lost the GOP contest for governor.

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Congressional lawmakers grilled Chicago Public Schools CEO Macquline King in an hourslong hearing Wednesday, pressing her and two other superintendents on policies supporting transgender students and other diversity, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican James Gallagher took the oath of office Wednesday, filling the seat of the late Rep. Doug LaMalfa in California’s 1st District and giving House leaders some breathing room in what has been a ...Read more

Efforts by Black congressional candidates and political leaders to coalesce around one challenger to U.S. Debbie Wasserman Schultz apparently have failed.

Elijah Manley, one of four Black candidates in the Broward County ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — An upstart challenger to longtime U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro says that he will not have enough signatures to force a Democratic primary but is strongly considering an independent challenge in November.

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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in the House and Senate are pushing bipartisan measures to increase U.S. support for Sudan as the country enters into the fourth year of a brutal civil war and humanitarian crisis.

In the Senate, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Progressive Democrat Randy Villegas has secured his spot in the general election and will battle Republican Rep. David Valadao for one of the nation’s most critical House races.

Villegas clinched ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The fight to see who will face off to replace Rep. Nancy Mace continues. Both the Republican and Democratic primaries for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District are headed for runoffs, set for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats appeared ready to reject President Donald Trump’s request for a short-term extension of a key surveillance authority Wednesday, arguing the president’s promise to eventually find a ...Read more

MIAMI — Attorney Kendrick Meek Jr. filed paperwork Wednesday to run for Florida’s 24th District, after Rep. Frederica Wilson announced two weeks ago that she wouldn’t seek reelection.

Meek enters with a special ...Read more

A race for a key swing district in Northeastern Pennsylvania has caught the eye of a major Democratic super PAC that plans to spend around $50 million on advertising targeting Republican-held seats, according to the New ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday shrugged off punishing price hikes faced by ordinary Americans, saying “I love the inflation” as the closely watched economic gauge soared over 4% amid the Iran war.

Asked about a ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A trial whose outcome could impact Idaho’s abortion laws is underway in federal court in Boise, and the first two days have included expert witness testimony from the high-risk pregnancy specialist suing...Read more

WASHINGTON — As advanced safety technologies reach new stages of development across the transportation sector, Congress has been grappling with how to legislate such innovations, trying to balance industry needs against ...Read more

WASHINGTON — For both parties, the bare-knuckle battle for control of the House winds through California.

Recent primaries in the Golden State provided an early look at how major themes shaping the midterm elections are...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury refunded nearly $22 billion in tariff revenue collected from importers in May, the first swath of such repayments since the Supreme Court struck down a major component of President Donald ...Read more

NEW YORK — In the thick of his campaign for Congress, former City Comptroller Brad Lander went on trial in Manhattan Wednesday, facing a violation stemming from his arrest last year during an ICE protest at 26 Federal ...Read more

Donald Trump’s adored, 19-year-old granddaughter Kai Trump was front and center with him as he faced loud, “thunderous” boos from the thousands in the crowd at Madison Square Garden, as she, the president and their ...Read more

WASHINGTON — ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones did not answer questions from lawmakers at a House Administration Committee hearing Wednesday, invoking her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

Wallace-Jones ...Read more