President Donald Trump ordered the Navy to return to using steam catapults to launch planes off of aircraft carriers, acting on a longtime complaint despite opposition from many naval officers.

In a presidential memorandum, Trump ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to come up with a plan within 60 days on what would be needed to use ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A late-in-the-campaign push on behalf of three progressive candidates in Florida’s Democratic primaries is generating outrage — unfairly, organizers argue — amid a deepening nationwide rift within the party.

Three events Friday in South Florida were, until late Thursday, being headlined by U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib...Read more

Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., Thursday refused to return $10,000 in recent campaign donations from Rep. Max Miller, the embattled Ohio Republican who’s facing intense scrutiny over domestic violence allegations.

Digging in his heels, Lawler vowed he won’t return the money from Miller until and unless the allegations, including claims by his ...Read more

No one on the front lines of the fight over abortion access in Kansas believes this is the end.

But last week delivered two triumphant moments for abortion rights supporters in the Sunflower State, which has become a regional hub for reproductive healthcare in the four years since the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, undoing the federal...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Jadon E. MacCormack is not going away.

The outspoken conservative Republican candidate from the town of Brooklyn lost Tuesday’s primary for the state legislature after alarming party leaders by making anti-gay comments that generated controversy in the seven-town district in the state’s “Quiet Corner.” Top ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Text messages used as evidence in an ethics report show that U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards, on more than one occasion, put spending time with a young, female staffer over his constituents.

And a campaign finance report indicates that the Western North Carolina Republican used donations meant for his now-defunct reelection campaign to ...Read more

Tyler Boebert, the 21-year-old son of Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, has accepted a plea deal in a child abuse case that could land him behind bars, according to a report.

Boebert is expected to plead guilty to child abuse/negligence without injury as part of the deal offered by the Weld County District Attorney’s Office, which recommended a ...Read more

A largely overlooked part of the executive order President Donald Trump issued this week scaling back the schedule for childhood vaccines threatens legal action against the four states that don’t allow personal or religious exemptions to school vaccine requirements.

Those states — California, Connecticut, Maine and New York — are among ...Read more

When college students head back to campus for the fall semester, more of them will have guaranteed access to abortion medication.

Colorado recently joined California, Illinois, Massachusetts and New York in requiring public colleges and universities to provide abortion medication to students on campus or arrange to make it available to them ...Read more

Widespread denial accompanied the public exposure of Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse and trafficking of girls and women.

After the U.S. Justice Department released millions of case documents on Epstein in January 2026, billionaires, politicians, heads of state and academics proclaimed their ignorance of Epstein’s ...Read more

Why do disagreements about vaccines, climate change or elections often feel so personal? Our research suggests it is not simply because other people have different beliefs. It is because we think those beliefs are mistaken.

We are behavioral scientists who study the role of beliefs in politics and everyday life. Our new research finds...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats seeking to retake control of Congress are planning broad investigations into President Donald Trump and his family's business dealings as part of an agenda focused on alleged corruption and economic harm, while keeping impeachment an option rather than an immediate priority.

The strategy would use subpoenas, committee ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s chief negotiating strategy consists of keeping the other party guessing about what he might do next. As this pertains to Iran, the president has repeatedly threatened Tehran with additional military action only to back off once new “peace talks” are on the table.

But it has become increasingly apparent that this ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is asking voters to return her to Congress — less than four months after she resigned from the House of Representatives.

Cherfilus-McCormick is one of five Democrats seeking her party’s nomination in the reconfigured Broward County 20th Congressional District in the Aug. 18 primary. The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County election officials are examining steps ahead of the November midterms to respond to the rising popularity of election trading via prediction markets, including a possible ban on wagering for county election workers.

The discussions follow a fracas during the June ballot count, when a handful of influencers ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Darren McAuley served 26 years in the Air National Guard with worldwide combat deployments, but it was his work as a doctor at Tampa’s veterans hospital that inspired his run as a Democrat in Tampa Bay’s Congressional District 12.

McAuley said he saw firsthand how workforce and budget cuts from the federal government last ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has asked a federal appeals court to pause a judge’s order imposing sanctions on him and his lawyers for how they handled his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service while he appeals that ruling.

Trump is challenging a Miami judge’s findings that he brought the IRS case in “bad faith�...Read more

The latest financial disclosures in the race to replace former Rep. Eric Swalwell show one candidate pulling far ahead of another financially – with significant backing by outside donors and those tied to a pro-Israel group.

Of the direct donations given to BART Board President Melissa Hernandez between July 1 and July 29, less than 1% came ...Read more

Strengthening the United States’ economic and military alliances with partner countries against China was top of mind for a U.S. delegation trip to East Asia, led by U.S. Rep. Young Kim.

The bipartisan congressional delegation spent 10 days in South Korea, Japan and Taiwan to examine aspects of the U.S. relationship with each, said Kim, R-...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina voters broadly express confidence in the fairness of the election process, but sizable minorities still believe voter fraud and foreign influence could be major problems, according to a new poll released on Wednesday by Elon University.

Elon’s poll, which surveyed 800 registered voters last month, found that ...Read more