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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Republican lawmaker is urging Gov. Mike Dunleavy not to veto a bill updating Alaska’s voting and election laws.

Dunleavy has until the end of the month to decide whether to sign or veto Senate ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted the Trump administration on Monday over its decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding — widely considered the legal foundation for much of U.S. climate policy regulating greenhouse ...Read more

Two Republicans are hoping to unseat an incumbent Democrat in a Central Valley swing district that could determine control of the House.

U.S. Rep. Adam Gray faces entrepreneur Vinay Kruttiventi and former Stockton Mayor ...Read more

By Nina Heller

Posted April 20, 2026 at 5:43pm

WASHINGTON — Ethics violations will take center stage in the House for the second week in a row, as a push to expel Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick comes to a head.

Only ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans plan to release their budget resolution and take a procedural vote as early as Tuesday, kicking off the cumbersome process for a reconciliation bill designed to help end the partial ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is reviving its effort to secure billions of dollars in State Department funding in a wide-ranging account with few guardrails that was met with resistance from Democrats last year, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congress faces a 10-day scramble before the statutory expiration of a powerful surveillance authority next week, after a collapse on the House floor laid bare the opposition to renewing the tool without new ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A clerk in northern Michigan says she's been conducting a "corrective audit" of the list of registered voters in her county, after the state Bureau of Elections questioned whether her actions have ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to provide federal funds for a wide range of energy projects, as his administration faces pressure to help curb rising oil and gas costs.

Trump on ...Read more

Rep. Ilhan Omar has amended her financial disclosure forms to show she does not have as much money as previously suggested in recent congressional filings.

The financial disclosure form in question had stated that the ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Monday shot down his own energy secretary’s prediction of stubbornly high gas prices through the end of the year.

Even thought the Iran war has sent prices at the pump way up, Trump said Energy...Read more

In light of Trump’s increasingly cruel and bonkers behavior — toward Iran, toward the pope, his posts, his bottomless vengeance, his continuing ICE raids, his continuing use of the Justice Department to target his ...Read more

Last week, two members of the U.S. House of Representatives resigned on the same day.

Gone were Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican accused of having a coercive sexual relationship with an aide who later killed herself, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania’s ban on public funding for abortion is unconstitutional, a divided Commonwealth Court ruled Monday.

In reaching that conclusion, the statewide court that oversees government-related ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Tuesday in a case that could shrink Congress’ power to let agencies internally decide legal and regulatory violations, as two telecommunications giants ...Read more

For the past 13 years, Maricopa County in Arizona has attempted to reform its sheriff’s department after Joe Arpaio made it into a national flash point for extreme immigration tactics. After a legal immigrant sued ...Read more

On a spring morning in 1914, miners in Ludlow, Colorado, were celebrating Greek Easter when the Colorado National Guard and a private security agency opened fire on their camp with a machine-gun-equipped armored car ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate faces an expected budget vote-a-rama this week as Republicans seek to start the process of funding immigration enforcement without the support of Democrats.

A resolution from Senate Budget ...Read more

There’s a good chance you’ve never actually seen a film from a woman’s point of view.

For decades, mainstream storytelling has been shaped by a largely masculine narrative logic: linear progression, cause and effect...Read more

Noncompete agreements, once reserved for executives with unique access to trade secrets, have gone mainstream in America. According to the Government Accountability Office, between 18% and 20% of U.S. workers are covered ...Read more