WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance Committee advanced a bipartisan tax administration package Thursday aimed at modernizing the IRS, improving customer service and strengthening taxpayer rights.

The committee voted, 26-1, to approve the sprawling tax modernization bill, which encompasses a laundry list of tax provisions including some proposals ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate again rejected advancing a measure to direct President Donald Trump to end the war in Iran, a vote that comes as a brief respite in fighting appears to be over.

The Senate voted 49-50 on Thursday against discharging from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a war powers resolution offered by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Election analysts moved two of North Carolina’s congressional district races — the 1st and 11th — from leans Republican to toss-up races.

On Thursday, The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics leaned left 13 congressional districts across the country.

North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, in the state’s...Read more

WASHINGTON — With three months remaining until election day, there is now little the Trump administration can do to bring relief to Americans battered by years of stagnant wages and steep inflation before they hit the polls, experts say — complicating midterm campaigning for Republicans and sharpening the opportunity for Democrats to win ...Read more

The Rand Paul-Anthony Fauci show returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday. The ensuing fireworks detracted from legitimate questions about the government’s involvement in potentially dangerous research.

Paul, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the Homeland Security and Government Committee, and Fauci, the high-profile symbol of the nation’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With three months remaining until Election Day, there is now little the Trump administration can do to bring relief to Americans battered by years of stagnant wages and steep inflation before they hit the polls, experts say — complicating midterm campaigning for Republicans and sharpening the opportunity for Democrats to win ...Read more

The Trump administration on Monday petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to ignore the Constitution and allow the implementation of an executive order that would severely restrict voting by mail nationwide. Even high school civics students know elections are the dominion of the states, but President Donald Trump naturally believes that power should ...Read more

Members of Congress for years have metaphorically run for the hills when confronted with the nation’s looming entitlement crisis, opting for inertia over reforms that might be politically risky. But with the Social Security trust fund now set to run dry in just six years — and Medicare not far behind — further inaction will soon be an ...Read more

Three months after a federal appeals court upheld the sweeping corruption conviction of Michael Madigan, the ex-House speaker is now taking his case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Madigan, through his lawyers, petitioned the high court on Wednesday to review the long-running corruption case.

Last year, after a trial that stretched nearly four ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan pair of senators is pushing for more and better data to understand the impact of artificial intelligence on the workforce.

That data could help back up what experts told a Senate subcommittee on Wednesday — that the biggest AI-fueled change may be different tasks at work rather than mass unemployment.

Sens. Jim ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to revive his failed lawsuit accusing Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and others of conspiring to tarnish his 2016 campaign with bogus claims of collusion with Russia.

In a Supreme Court filing made public Tuesday, the president requested an ...Read more

President Donald Trump issued a call to Kansas Republicans on Wednesday: “Get out and vote, vote, vote for Ty Masterson to be your next governor.”

Trump dialed in for a “tele-rally” in support of the Kansas Senate president, one of seven GOP candidates who will appear on the Aug. 4 primary ballot.

The event lasted just over 10 minutes,...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump could be falling into some of the same messaging potholes as his predecessor, regularly telling voters to trust him on war and the economy ahead of November’s elections as he places big bets and pushes unproven predictions.

As he repeatedly shrugs off voters’ concerns about pain at the pump and grocery ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right to not testify at a Senate committee hearing on his role in the U.S. response to COVID-19 after slamming the proceeding as having been designed to push him into making incriminating statements.

“The only conclusion I can reach, is that the sole reason he is calling me before this ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The special election to succeed the late Georgia Rep. David Scott is heading to an all-Democratic runoff after no candidate took more than 50% of the vote in Tuesday’s all-party primary.

With more than 95% of the vote in, Marcye Scott, the late congressman’s daughter, had 46% while former Gwinnett County School Board Chair ...Read more

Temporary Protected Status has expired for more than 300,000 Haitians and Syrians, leaving thousands in New York and around the country vulnerable and unmoored after sometimes decades here, all to please Stephen Miller and Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant zealotry.

We know what isn’t going to happen: these people are not going to just up and ...Read more

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva maintained his lead over Flávio Bolsonaro ahead of October’s election as a cloud of controversies swirled around the conservative challenger, a new poll found.

Lula leads Bolsonaro by 6 percentage points, 49% to 43%, in a runoff scenario, according to an AtlasIntel survey for Bloomberg News published ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Four years ago, Republicans complained that Pennsylvania gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano torpedoed their downballot efforts in key House races across the commonwealth.

This time around, GOP nominee Stacy Garrity isn’t polling any better, again complicating House Republican campaigns in the Keystone State. And Pennsylvania...Read more

Two months after winning a primary to likely become the first democratic socialist representing Philadelphia in Congress, State Rep. Chris Rabb on Tuesday joined forces in the city with U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, a California progressive kicking off a week of events across the state as he considers running for president in 2028.

The like-minded ...Read more