President Donald Trump on Wednesday shrugged off punishing price hikes faced by ordinary Americans, saying “I love the inflation” as the closely watched economic gauge soared over 4% amid the Iran war.

Asked about a new report showing consumer prices rose by 4.2% compared to 12 months ago, Trump told reporters that the report was music to ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A trial whose outcome could impact Idaho’s abortion laws is underway in federal court in Boise, and the first two days have included expert witness testimony from the high-risk pregnancy specialist suing government officials and from several other specialists who detailed myriad potential pregnancy complications they said ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As advanced safety technologies reach new stages of development across the transportation sector, Congress has been grappling with how to legislate such innovations, trying to balance industry needs against calls to prevent tragic accidents.

A subcommittee hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee took ...Read more

WASHINGTON — For both parties, the bare-knuckle battle for control of the House winds through California.

Recent primaries in the Golden State provided an early look at how major themes shaping the midterm elections are playing out: ideological debates roiling the Democratic Party, a redrawn map that threw together two GOP incumbents and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury refunded nearly $22 billion in tariff revenue collected from importers in May, the first swath of such repayments since the Supreme Court struck down a major component of President Donald Trump’s trade policy.

The amount was roughly equal to tariffs taken in during the month, according to a Treasury ...Read more

NEW YORK — In the thick of his campaign for Congress, former City Comptroller Brad Lander went on trial in Manhattan Wednesday, facing a violation stemming from his arrest last year during an ICE protest at 26 Federal Plaza.

Lander, 56, who’s vying for Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman’s seat in New York’s 10th congressional district, is ...Read more

Donald Trump’s adored, 19-year-old granddaughter Kai Trump was front and center with him as he faced loud, “thunderous” boos from the thousands in the crowd at Madison Square Garden, as she, the president and their entourage attended Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday night.

People on social media wondered if Kai Trump was taken aback by ...Read more

WASHINGTON — ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones did not answer questions from lawmakers at a House Administration Committee hearing Wednesday, invoking her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

Wallace-Jones and the Democratic fundraising platform have been under scrutiny for years, as House Administration Chair Bryan Steil, R-Wis....Read more

NEW YORK — Front-runners Micah Lasher and Alex Bores sparred over artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency while Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg staked out a more progressive stance on Israel in a NY-12 congressional debate.

Lasher, who narrowly leads most polls, repeatedly trashed Bores for supposedly being in the pocket of Big Tech, while...Read more

WASHINGTON — Legislation aimed at reducing delays when Medicare Advantage plans require preapproval for care could hit the House floor under fast-track rules for bills that have broad support.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., targets use of prior authorization in Medicare Advantage — in which insurers approve or deny services ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Recent proposals to regulate artificial intelligence show Democratic paths diverging between cooperation and compromise on the one hand and sweeping regulations on the other.

Growing public angst about the new technology and its impact on jobs, communities and the environment has fueled both ends of the spectrum and, even in the ...Read more

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