President Donald Trump’s prime time speech on supposed shortcomings in the nation’s election systems failed to deliver any significantly new evidence and didn’t cast doubt on his loss in the 2020 presidential election.

The 25-minute address to the nation from the White House was billed as exposing “shocking vulnerabilities in our ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders laid the groundwork for a final dash to pass partisan legislative priorities before August recess. But if this week was any indication, it won’t be an easy run.

First, Washington was struck by the sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on July 11. Moving quickly, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster chose...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump is expected to campaign in Michigan ahead of the state's Aug. 4 primary election, according to three sources with knowledge of the Republican leader's plans.

The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the president's travel publicly. They said the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As Congress considers competing House and Senate proposals meant to protect kids online, lawmakers have only to look to their states to understand the challenges in seeking to regulate kids’ social media usage without running afoul of the First Amendment.

States have already tried some of the same strategies Congress is ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday night used a historically stunning primetime address to peddle unfounded conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, taking a major political risk as Republicans fight for their congressional majorities and conjuring warnings from Democrats about November’s midterms.

Trump ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Two Central Florida Congressional candidates who entered their races just ahead of the deadline last month and face crowded primaries have jumpstarted their campaigns by pouring $1 million or more of their own money into their coffers.

The candidates, both Republicans and running in separate districts, have amassed two of the ...Read more

A little-noticed presidential national security directive is now the legal engine behind a wave of terrorism prosecutions against left-wing protesters.

That domestic campaign now has an international dimension, one that American officials had been planning for months, culminating on July 16, 2026, when Secretary of State Marco Rubio�...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump used a rare prime-time address Thursday night to renew his attacks on the security of U.S. elections, telling Americans that the nation’s voting system is “so broken” that “no one can possibly defend it,” an unprecedented effort by a sitting president to undermine public confidence in domestic ...Read more

With control of the U.S. House on the line in November, Pennsylvania’s swing-district candidates are stocking up their war chests for a critical election — but one Democrat is lagging behind his counterparts.

Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, who is challenging longtime incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in the 1st ...Read more

Lawmakers expect to vote next week on a proposal to curb stock-trading by members of Congress, an effort months in the making that many Republicans are hoping to point to as they return home to their districts in August.

Democrats are lining up in opposition as they try to shore up their own campaign talking points, arguing the proposal should ...Read more

A longtime teleprompter operator for President Donald Trump has been accused of making more than $100,000 by using prediction markets to make winning bets on the content of his speeches, federal officials said Thursday.

Gabriel Perez, a White House tech assistant who has been running Trump’s teleprompter since his first term, has been ...Read more

Only one House Democrat from Pennsylvania voted against an amendment on Wednesday that would have ended aid to Israel.

The rest backed the measure along with the majority of Democrats in the chamber, highlighting shifts and factions within the party. The vote also inches closer to crossing a line that Democratic Sen. John Fetterman says could ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a prominent figure in national Democratic politics, said in an interview Thursday that the wildfire smoke blanketing Michigan and other places in the United States was a "manifestation" of climate change, which he labeled a crisis.

Sanders, an independent and self-described democratic socialist from ...Read more

Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez, a Miami Republican, faced little pushback from Democrats during a confirmation hearing Thursday for his nomination to be the U.S. ambassador to Brazil — except needing to answer for the Trump administration’s new tariff fight with the country.

Late Wednesday, while Perez was sleeping ahead of addressing ...Read more

Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton are expected to face each other in a debate, as they vie to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

The development in the high-profile statewide race comes after Talarico on Thursday challenged Ken Paxton to three televised debates. Paxton’s campaign has responded that the Texas attorney general ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, thumbing his nose at national Republicans on the morning after they subpoenaed him, rallied protesters on Capitol Hill on Thursday as one of his counterparts in Virginia, who had also been compelled by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, prepared to testify behind closed doors.

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The parades, reenactments and fireworks are over. And in the aftermath of Americans’ celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it is important to recognize that the declaration was only the first step in making a unified country.

Many of the founders argued that the country needed a remodeled ...Read more

President Donald Trump, along with some of his aides and supporters, have proposed a number of absurd ideas to aggrandize him. By far the most absurd is their repeated appeals to add his likeness to Mount Rushmore.

Carved into South Dakota’s Black Hills between 1927 and 1941, Rushmore features four of America’s most celebrated presidents: ...Read more