U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell defeated Cori Bush in Tuesday's Democratic primary to continue representing Missouri's 1st Congressional District — the second time in two years he has bested the former two-term congresswoman.

This time he won by a much wider margin. The final, unofficial totals show Bell winning with 59% of the vote, compared to Bush's...Read more

President Trump targeted birthright citizenship again Thursday by signing a pair of executive orders purporting to narrow it — including by cracking down on "birth tourism" and limiting which children born to immigrants in the U.S. qualify.

The new orders follow a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that rejected an attempt by Trump to end ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate Agriculture Committee rejected a five-year farm bill Thursday at a contentious markup plagued by Republican absences and a Democratic rebellion over plans for imposing food stamp costs on state governments.

The 10-11 vote defeating the 983-page bill marked a rare break from the bipartisan support that typically ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan bill aimed at combating hepatitis C is stalled in the Senate due to a high score from the Congressional Budget Office, the bill’s lead sponsor Bill Cassidy, R-La., said on Thursday.

The bill, co-sponsored by Sen Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., proposes a national strategy to reduce hepatitis C infections by providing free...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is actively considering issuing an executive order on vaccines and autism as soon as next week, according to people familiar with the matter.

The effort is prompted by President Donald Trump’s interest in seeing additional action, according to the people, who asked not to be named to discuss internal ...Read more

The U.S. Senate’s push to fast track the farm bill fizzled Thursday after Sen. Amy Klobuchar and other Democrats opposed a committee draft that would leave Minnesota counties with millions of dollars in new SNAP costs.

Last year’s cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, included a cost shift to states. But in states...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders aimed at denying citizenship to certain people born in the United States, his second attempt to curb birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court knocked down an earlier directive.

Under one measure signed Thursday, mothers deemed to be seeking entry to the U.S. for the ...Read more

And that, my friend, is what they call closure.

Donald Trump Jr. has officially severed romantic and business ties with Kimberly Guilfoyle.

The president’s eldest child recently paid off his ex-fiancée a cool $7.6 million for her share of the Jupiter, Florida, mansion they bought for $9.7 million in happier times (2021), The Palm Beach ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump defended Pete Hegseth after a report about a disagreement over dwindling U.S. weapons stockpiles raised questions about the Pentagon chief’s future in the administration.

“I am extremely happy with the job that Pete Hegseth is doing,” Trump said in a social media post Thursday. “Everything has been...Read more

U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., led a bipartisan group of lawmakers in a letter asking Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to extend and expand temporary protected status for Ukraine ahead of its expiration this fall.

The government status allows immigrants to live and work in the United States if conditions are unsafe in their ...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office is defending a $2 billion state contract awarded to a firm co-owned by U.S. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley’s husband and the head of the convention center, calling legal challengers sore losers.

“Plaintiffs’ Complaint is nothing more than a fever dream of imagined ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee voted Thursday to hold former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci in criminal contempt of Congress for declining to answer questions about the COVID-19 pandemic during a highly charged hearing last week.

The Thursday ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Several GOP senators warned that Donald Trump should focus his midterm messaging more on how Republicans plan to help voters and less on casting ultraliberal Democratic candidates as communist monsters.

The president again on Wednesday, during a stop just off the Las Vegas Strip, described a number of democratic socialist ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Authorities are trying unlock the mystery of a Downey security guard accused of weapons violations after he twice visited the Trump National Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes in advance of this week’s presidential visit.

Jeanine John Taele was charged by federal prosecutors with possession of an unregistered short-barreled ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The Democratic nominee for Michigan’s swing 7th Congressional District said Wednesday that he allowed his Democratic Socialists of America membership to lapse just last month.

Will Lawrence, who won his three-way primary race by 15 percentage points Tuesday, told CNN’s Manu Raju that he stopped paying his DSA dues to ...Read more

A committee led by Sen. Rand Paul voted to hold former White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci in contempt following a contentious hearing where he pleaded the Fifth over 100 times.

Paul, who is chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said he brought the resolution forward to hold Fauci accountable.

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WASHINGTON — Four months ago, calls denouncing misconduct came swiftly, and all at once.

Now, it’s near silence.

Allegations surrounding two House Republicans reached a fever pitch this week, as Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina dropped out of his reelection campaign due to a report detailing “inappropriate conduct” toward two ...Read more

After Luigi Mangione was arrested in December 2024 in connection with the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the internet did what it often does: It turned something serious into a joke.

Although Mangione has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in New York and to federal stalking charges, viral memes at the time ...Read more

“Crimes against humanity.”

That’s what an investigation in March 2026 called Russia’s “deportation and forcible transfer” of Ukrainian children and “their enforced disappearance.”

The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine wrote that “thousands of children have been deported to the Russian...Read more

The leading candidate to become California’s next governor said Wednesday that two bills in the state Legislature are a critical bulwark to federal and local attacks on voting and must pass.

“We want democracy to thrive and that’s why we are here,” he said during a press conference near the state Capitol, before supporters of the ...Read more