When Americans think about campaign finance, they usually picture wealthy donors, political action committees and super PACs pouring money into elections.

But some of the most revealing money moves happen inside Congress itself.

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives routinely give campaign money to fellow members of ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA —The euphoria at Chris Rabb’s election night party last month hadn’t even started to wane before the democratic socialist and his supporters — dancing and hugging after capturing a rarely open Philadelphia seat in Congress — spoke of setting their sights even higher.

Taking on the city’s Democratic establishment to ...Read more

The U.S. and Europe tried unsuccessfully for 35 years to end the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Moscow also failed, sending “peacekeepers” after Azerbaijan’s attacks on Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020; these forces idly watched when Azerbaijan took the entire region and drove out 110,000 ethnic Armenians in 2023.

President Joe Biden’...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congress spent another day stalled on the renewal of a key surveillance authority Tuesday, as President Donald Trump declined to help clear a legislative path and instead dug in on his temporary choice in Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence.

Lawmakers and the White House are sliding closer to the deadline ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s longest-serving members of the U.S. House of Representatives were vying to keep their parties’ nominations during Tuesday night’s primary elections. It came after weeks of debate over whether the state should redraw its congressional map, an effort that would have put them into same district.

U.S. Rep....Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans cleared a $70 billion reconciliation package Tuesday to fund immigration enforcement agencies for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term.

On a party-line vote of 214-212, the House cleared the reconciliation bill that the Senate passed last week. Independent Kevin Kiley of California, who caucuses with the ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The four Black candidates running in the Democratic primary in Broward County’s 20th Congressional District are still actively working on a deal in which all-but-one would drop out of the race, setting up a one-on-one contest with Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

The candidates met for four hours in Pompano ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California’s slow vote counting process — still underway and causing friction after last week’s primary — may be forced to change before November’s midterm elections, as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to rule on whether mail ballots must be received by election day to count.

Whether those changes will speed things up ...Read more

LIMA, Peru — Peru’s presidential election is so tight that it’ll likely be citizens abroad, rather than those from within the country, who will break the tie.

Leftist candidate Roberto Sánchez is leading the race with 50.06% of the votes, while three-time runner-up Keiko Fujimori has 49.94%. That’s a difference of just over 20,000 ...Read more

This is a reflective time of year for me. My father, Ronald Reagan, died in June 2004, and each year I let myself drift into whatever realm my thoughts and memories lead me to. Sometimes it’s about who he was as a father — magical when I was a small child, but elusive and a bit awkward as I grew up.

This year I have found myself reflecting ...Read more

For most of President Donald Trump’s first 500 days back in office, congressional Republicans have shown next to no appetite for challenging him.

When the president’s immigration enforcement tactics wreaked havoc on everyday life in America’s cities, GOP lawmakers were mum. A few faint mumbles of discontent could be heard when Trump’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats are looking to break a five-year losing streak at Wednesday night’s Congressional Baseball Game, hoping a revamped roster will be enough to beat Republicans.

But partisan rivalry aside, research suggests the game may boost legislative collaboration.

Playing baseball gives legislators the chance to forge bonds outside...Read more

Former Vice President Mike Pence is not merely promoting a new book. He is making a final argument for a vision of conservatism that he believes is slipping away.

In “What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience,” Pence argues that the Republican Party must choose between enduring conservative principles and what...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Even before President Trump’s latest wave of unfounded claims of election fraud in California, a significant share of voters in the state expressed concerns about federal interference in the electoral process, according to a new poll.

Trump on Monday claimed on his social media site that the race for Los Angeles mayor ...Read more

An updated federal report alleges top Minnesota leaders knew about widespread fraud in social services programs but repeatedly failed to stop it — the latest partisan fallout from the ongoing fraud crisis.

The 200-page document, titled “The Cost of Doing Nothing: How Tim Walz and Keith Ellison Fueled Minnesota’s Fraud Explosion,” is a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has yet to embark on a robust midterm campaign schedule, and his handful of initial rallies have been far from targeted messages talking up GOP candidates.

In the most recent two trips to districts that could help determine whether Republicans retain control of the House, the president opted for the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso on Monday aggressively accused Assemblywoman Claire Valdez of being “beholden” to Mayor Zohran Mamdani as their Democratic primary battle heats up for New York's 7th Congressional District.

Reynoso also suggested Mamdani is a powerful “boss” of a “political machine” in an ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House lawmakers passed a bill Monday aimed at preventing future executive branch interference in some legislative branch agencies, a year after President Donald Trump fired the librarian of Congress.

It would allow House and Senate leaders to appoint the heads of both the Library of Congress and the Government Publishing Office, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Massachusetts on Monday blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to charge a $100,000 fee for companies seeking to employ foreign workers with an H-1B visa, ruling in part that it oversteps Congress’ taxing power.

In the ruling, Judge Leo T. Sorokin of the U.S. District Court for the District of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress face two major tasks this week: wrapping up reconciliation 2.0 and renewing a controversial spy powers authority before it expires Friday.

The House returns with a final sprint to clear roughly $70 billion for immigration enforcement through President Donald Trump’s term, which GOP leaders are hoping to ...Read more