The palace intrigue surrounding President Donald Trump’s endorsement in Kentucky’s May Republican U.S. Senate primary has begun.

After many months of a heated race with no hint from the president on whether he’d endorse among the candidates running to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday that Trump...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump focused on other matters this week as House Republicans struggled to pass measures related to surveillance powers, agricultural policy and immigration enforcement funding, with former officials saying the president’s own priorities are likely to increasingly draw him away from the legislative grind.

The ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A bitterly contested race for an open seat in Congress representing a deep-blue Philadelphia district has become something of a symbol of a broader national debate among Democrats about how far the party should go in criticizing Israel.

While voters in the city have long said that economic concerns, public safety, and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Hot rotisserie chickens could be purchased by families using food stamps under a measure led by a Michigan lawmaker and added Thursday to the latest farm bill to pass the U.S. House.

Current rules for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, don't consider hot rotisserie chickens to be an eligible purchase for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House cleared a Senate-passed bill funding most of the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, effectively ending an 11-week partial shutdown.

The bill, which the House sent to President Donald Trump’s desk on a voice vote, would fund all of the vast department — covering the Secret Service, Coast Guard, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Artificial intelligence chatbot providers would need to verify users’ ages and ban minors from using AI companion chatbots under a bill that advanced unanimously in a Senate committee Thursday.

The Judiciary Committee voted 22-0 to approve the bill, which would make it a crime to knowingly provide a chatbot that might encourage...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump Jr. could be poised to succeed his father.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Amazon is mulling a reboot of “The Apprentice” with Don Jr. as the potential star. The reality competition show, which previously ran on NBC from 2004 to 2017, was originally hosted by his father. It’s also where President ...Read more

Eight candidates for California governor shared a stage for 90 minutes Tuesday night, their second of three scheduled debates before the June 2 primary.

My colleagues Gustavo Arellano and Mark Z. Barabak joined me to decide who the winner was, or if there was a winner at all.

Arellano: The real MVP in this debate? State Supt. Tony Thurmond.

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Rep. Mike Lawler traded barbs Thursday with Tucker Carlson after the right-wing pundit and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted the New York Republican congressman as a backstabbing hypocrite and closet liberal.

Lawler slammed Carlson as a “moron” and “grifter” after Carlson accused him of backing Israel too strongly, rubber-...Read more

“On behalf of President Donald J. Trump,” read 22 emails sent from the White House Presidential Personnel Office on Friday afternoon, April 24, 2026, “I am writing to inform you that your position as a member of the National Science Board is terminated, effective immediately.”

The email was signed “Thank you for your service...Read more

Divided along ideological lines, the U.S. Supreme Court on April 29, 2026, issued a ruling that severely weakens a provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. That provision, known as Section 2, prohibited any discriminatory voting practice or election rule that results in less opportunity for minority groups to exercise their ...Read more

President Donald Trump sparked immediate outcry on April 12, 2026, when he posted an image of himself as a Jesus-like figure. The post, which Trump later said was supposed to depict him as a doctor, came shortly after the president criticized Pope Leo XIV as “weak” and “terrible.”

Three days later, Trump posted an image ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Almost a decade after a workplace harassment overhaul on Capitol Hill, staffers aren’t fully comfortable reporting misconduct — that is, if they even know where to turn, a range of lawmakers and aides told Roll Call.

Congress should finish the job it started during the #MeToo era, several said, especially after the recent ...Read more

When an active shooter threat disrupted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the president and members of his Cabinet were evacuated swiftly and efficiently. The threat ended with a shooter apprehended and a Truth Social post. Then President Donald Trump returned to the podium, bypassing the persistence of gun violence in this country to ...Read more

Google tracks the vast majority of cellphones in the United States, collecting your location, usage and device data through installed software and apps. The tracking occurs by various autonomous processes you cannot see or stop, even when you turn off location history, and Google and other companies keep that data for years. Outside of your ...Read more

Rep. Josh Harder, D-Tracy, faces a familiar slate of challengers as he seeks reelection in California’s 9th Congressional District in the June primary.

Harder faces four Republican challengers, three of whom have raised little to no donations, according to Federal Election Commission filings. Harder, a four-term congressman originally from ...Read more

Supreme Court justices pressed the federal government Wednesday about whether the president’s racist remarks about immigrants should factor into legal challenges to the Trump administration’s terminations of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians, in a case that will have significant consequences for South Florida, the heart of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House passed a renewal of a key surveillance power Wednesday, a day before its statutory authority expires, sending it to a Senate that appears unlikely to pass that version of it.

The House, in a 235-191 vote that split members of both parties, approved legislation that would renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence ...Read more