The House Judiciary Committee, under the leadership of Chair and Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has sent letters to Boston’s law enforcement leaders demanding documents and information on the city’s sanctuary policies as the Trump administration continues its nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration.

The letters by Jordan and...Read more

NEW YORK — Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso is defending organizers’ phone calls to voters that suggest Mayor Zohran Mamdani supports him in the Democratic primary for the NY-07 congressional district, when the mayor actually backs rival Assemblywoman Claire Valdez.

Reynoso says he sees nothing wrong with the calls from the left-...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House Armed Services Committee chairman released on Tuesday a proposed $1.15 trillion fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act that emphasizes bolstering America’s defense industry.

The so-called “chairman’s mark” from Rep. Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., would authorize almost $1.15 trillion for the base-budget part of...Read more

Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it.

Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent.

This silence comes in the wake ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former President Joe Biden is suing the U.S. Justice Department to block officials from sharing audio recordings and interview transcripts he gave for a memoir project with Republicans in Congress and a conservative advocacy group.

The extraordinary lawsuit, which pits a former U.S. president against his successor’s ...Read more

Three independents submitted the thousands of signatures needed to get on the November ballot in Illinois’ 4th Congressional District, teeing up a rare general election for a federal seat in which candidates from outside the major parties have a real shot.

Each needed to turn in at least 10,816 signatures by the Tuesday deadline. They tackled...Read more

NEW YORK — A Brooklyn man with a history of mental illness apparently upset with reductions to safety net programs left graphic messages on the White House’s web page threatening to kill President Donald Trump at his next public speaking engagement, federal prosecutors allege.

Justin Christopher Moore, 53, wrote three screeds on the “...Read more

DETROIT — Troy Mayor Ethan Baker announced his Republican candidacy for Michigan's 11th Congressional District.

If successful, Baker would flip the congressional district, which encompasses much of Oakland County. Democratic U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens represents the district but is leaving her seat in her bid to represent Michigan in the Senate....Read more

MIAMI — As he sits in a federal prison awaiting sentencing on criminal charges related to his lobbying work for an American subsidiary of Venezuela’s oil company, David Rivera’s prominent friends are sticking by him publicly and financially.

Alina Garcia, Miami-Dade’s elected supervisor of elections, offered to put up her home as ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — More House seats could flip in Florida this election season after a Republican-led redistricting effort upended the congressional map.

Florida is now home to three of the most competitive U.S. House races in the country, according to Cook Political Report, a ratings service. Republicans redrew three previously blue districts to ...Read more

MIAMI — Almost all of Florida’s elected Democratic National Committee members are condemning Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s decision to run for reelection in a district previously drawn to ensure Black voters’ representation but targeted for redistricting by Gov. Ron DeSantis this year.

“Our party cannot credibly denounce ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said his physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center went “PERFECTLY,” but provided no details on the results of his examination.

Trump’s Tuesday visit to Walter Reed marked his fourth publicly disclosed medical appointment since the start of his second term. It is also Trump’s third ...Read more

N.J. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. has broken his mysterious silence amid a nearly three month-long absence over an unexplained “medical” issue.

The embattled Republican scion of one of the Garden State’s most famed political families called some fellow GOP officials over the holiday weekend to reassure them that he’s still running for reelection ...Read more

In Colorado, a national debate about the role of Latinos in American society has deep roots in the state’s history, current identity — and future.

I’m a professor of ethnic studies at Colorado State University. I recently published a book titled “Latino Colorado: The Struggle for Equality in the Centennial State.” In it, I ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s shake-up of the United States’ public health apparatus in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has public health experts concerned about the country’s ability to respond to emerging disease outbreaks like hantavirus and Ebola.

Whether that’s a concern for Congress, however, often depends on the ...Read more

President Donald Trump has signed an emergency declaration for the Garden Grove toxic tank emergency — allowing local authorities to receive federal disaster assistance as Orange County fire officials work to contain the crisis.

The move came after the Orange County Fire Authority announced early Monday that the risk of a major explosion had ...Read more

After losing his bid for reelection last week, U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie said his “biggest crime” was showing that bipartisan work can be done in modern American politics.

In a moment of reflection on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday morning, the seven-term Republican said he thought he lost the GOP primary Tuesday because he voted “...Read more