WASHINGTON — Independence Day recess ended Sunday with two explosive developments within the Senate GOP: the death of Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who died Saturday night, and a much-awaited health update from former Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

The latter issued a statement Sunday evening confirming that, contrary ...Read more

When the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that states can bar biological males from competing in women’s sports, it left unanswered the other side of the question: Can states permit it?

The question is pointed directly at Connecticut or, more particularly, at a case referred to as Soule that has percolated in Connecticut’s federal district ...Read more

Let’s begin with the obvious: President Donald Trump is out to rig the midterm elections.

We know this because the president commits many of his illegal acts in broad daylight.

For the past year, Trump has revved up his election-tampering efforts by throwing everything at the proverbial wall.

He called for nationalizing elections, pushed to...Read more

President Donald Trump and his administration have continued to ramp up demands that states, including deep-red Idaho, alter their election laws to limit or eliminate mail-in voting and ensure that only eligible citizens cast ballots with threats of legal and financial penalties just months ahead of November’s general election.

The U.S. ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he spoke with U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham shortly before his death in an interview on "Meet the Press" on Sunday morning, where he praised the political career of South Carolina’s influential senior senator.

Graham died Saturday evening after a “brief and sudden illness,” his office announced early Sunday morning....Read more

The Supreme Court's conservative justices say they decide cases based on the words and original history of the Constitution — and not on their personal or political views.

Following the lead set by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, they say they see history and "originalism" as a guiding principle to prevent judges from changing the ...Read more

MIAMI — The warm and inviting living room of the Rosales family’s Kendall West home is decorated with intricately hand-painted egg shell dioramas. In a back bedroom, piles of old photo albums document the family matriarch’s youth in Cuba before she immigrated to Miami in the 1960s. A 1963 LIFE Magazine profile of Fidel Castro is buried in ...Read more

Federal prosecutors issued subpoenas late Friday compelling five New York Times journalists to reveal their sources for two stories about security shortcomings on the new Qatari-gifted presidential jet, the news organization said.

The Times reported earlier this week that the Secret Service advised Trump to take the older jet used as Air Force ...Read more

Federal prosecutors issued subpoenas late Friday compelling four New York Times journalists to reveal their sources for two stories about security shortcomings on the new Qatari-gifted presidential jet, the news organization said.

The Times reported earlier this week that the Secret Service advised Trump to take the older jet used as Air Force ...Read more

A sweeping housing bill became law on Saturday without Donald Trump’s signature, or any White House fanfare, after the president soured on a package of dozens of affordability provisions that he derided as “a yawn.”

Trump’s scuttled support and the dead-of-night enactment are setbacks for his allies on Capitol Hill, who’d been looking...Read more

The Trump administration is continuing its pushback against state artificial intelligence laws that it views as ideologically biased, proposing a new Federal Trade Commission policy.

The proposed policy statement, which is open for public comment through July 31, would affect how the FTC regulates AI companies. The agency said it’s meant to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump warned Iran that the U.S. military would “completely decimate and destroy all areas” of the Islamic Republic if its leaders attempted or carried out his assassination.

The president’s message, in a Truth Social post late Friday, came at the end of a week in which clashes between Iran and the U.S. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A group of high-ranking Senate Democrats Friday called on their Republican counterparts to investigate whether President Donald Trump’s crypto ventures pose national security risks.

Democrats sharply criticized Trump’s financial disclosure last week showing he generated at least $1.4 billion from crypto ventures, and accused ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump dismissed all remaining members of the bipartisan U.S. Elections Assistance Commission this week, his latest move to assert control over national elections in the final months before midterm voting.

The White House defended the move as justified by a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision handing the president...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday put to rest any lingering hopes he would sign into law major housing legislation Congress recently cleared with overwhelming bipartisan majorities.

The legislation, which is designed to increase the supply and lower the costs of housing, would become law at midnight Friday if Trump doesn’t veto ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on democratic socialists who have won Democratic Party primaries could clash with his idea of creating investment accounts for American adults.

The administration this week already formally launched its Trump Accounts initiative for children, which includes a one-time government ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday night removed the remaining members of a federal commission intended to assist with federal elections, amid his broader effort to control voting procedures and election administration.

Trump fired Chair Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland from the Election Assistance Commission, while Republican ...Read more

The 2026 midterms are here, and negative campaign messaging is flooding screens across the U.S. In Texas’ Senate race, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton’s comments about Democratic Texas Rep. James Talarico have gone viral.

Rather than simply suggesting Talarico is weak on border security or inflation economics, Paxton’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House version of this year’s mega surface transportation reauthorization bill could increase the deficit anticipated in the Highway Trust Fund over the next five years despite the inclusion of new fees on electric vehicles and hybrids, according to the Congressional Budget Office

The CBO analysis, released Thursday, found ...Read more