In one of its most consequential rulings of the year, just before breaking for the holidays last week the Supreme Court held that President Donald Trump acted improperly in federalizing the National Guard in Illinois and in activating troops across the state. Although the case centered on the administration’s deployments in Chicago, the court�...Read more

For President Donald Trump’s supporters, 2025 has been a year of transformation. For his opponents, it’s been nothing short of a long nightmare. The holiday season is a perfect time to look back, reflect and remember the consequential moments of the past year.

As human beings, we generally fixate on the negative. Indeed, there are a ton of ...Read more

I know boats. Catamarans where water laps at your legs. Fishing boats with bright colors and splintered seats. Even though I grew up in the heart of Silicon Valley in San José, California, I come from a line of Venezuelans who were fed by the ocean. And, like all the fishermen before him, my father’s sunworn skin smelled of salt.

My father ...Read more

A candidate in the crowded Democratic primary to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky said Tuesday he plans to drop out of the race following a pressure campaign from AIPAC, an influential but controversial pro-Israel lobbying organization.

The development appears to be a boon to state Sen. Laura Fine, another Democratic candidate who ...Read more

Guinea’s military leader Mamadi Doumbouya won a widely expected victory in Dec. 28 elections from which several opposition figures were barred from running.

Doumbouya, who seized power in a 2021 coup, secured 86.7% of the vote, according to preliminary results from the General Directorate of Elections.

Standing under the banner of the ...Read more

Idaho’s U.S. senators have sounded the alarm with President Donald Trump over his recent decision to relax federal marijuana restrictions.

Republicans Mike Crapo and Jim Risch each signed a letter sent to Trump opposing his executive order this month that directs reclassification of marijuana to a lower-level drug in the U.S. Initial word of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will end 2025 behind on judicial confirmations compared to the pace of predecessor Joe Biden, but ahead of the rate Trump set during the first calendar year of his previous term in the White House.

With 53 seats, majority Republican senators had wide latitude to confirm the administration’s picks for the ...Read more

Susie Wiles was right about one thing.

In a revealing Vanity Fair article, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff said he thinks “there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing. Zero. Nothing.”

Trump confirmed it by having his handpicked board rename one of the nation’s most cherished memorials “The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy...Read more

WASHINGTON – Seven months after President Donald Trump announced plans for a Golden Dome missile shield for America, lawmakers who oversee the Pentagon say they have yet to learn meaningful information about the system’s attributes, cost or schedule.

Trump said in May that the system’s so-called architecture had been “officially ...Read more

Last week the Supreme Court gave the country one notable gift in blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, part of a campaign of intimidation that has seen troops deploy now to various (invariably heavily Democratic) areas.

Six justices said no to Trump, Chief John Roberts, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena ...Read more

For all the lawmakers who’ve announced plans to retire from congressional service this year, there’s a long list of former members from both parties who want to be back in Congress.

They range from former lawmakers whose terms ended only a year ago to ex-members who’ve been out of the political spotlight for more than a decade.

Here’s...Read more

WASHINGTON — As congressional Republicans push to delist gray wolf and grizzly bear populations from Endangered Species Act protections, they now have an ally in the administration who has taken a skeptical view of the law designed for the purpose.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Director Brian Nesvik, who was confirmed in August, has advocated ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Trump administration proposals that would sharply limit pediatric gender-affirming care could face a host of legal challenges if implemented, from accusations of overriding the state regulation of Medicaid to undermining Congress, lawyers and civil rights groups say.

Accusations of subverting the will of Congress have been common...Read more

The Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C., serves as the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Labor. Its dedicated employees implement and enforce labor laws passed by Congress. It’s not a church, or a synagogue, and its mission is not to serve or praise any religious deity. But if you stopped in at the Cesar Chavez auditorium on Dec....Read more

The special election on redistricting has been certified. The closely watched decisions from former Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla have been made.

Does that mean the race for California’s next governor — with its primary just six months away — is ready to heat up?

It’s been a rather lackluster campaign thus far...Read more

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar says she’s long past feeling shock when President Donald Trump says something negative about her or the Somali people.

But now it’s at a new level. It’s not just words.

Federal immigration agents are pulling her constituents off the streets – even, she has said, stopping her son. She’s also being forced to once ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers rarely publicly break with the Trump administration. But the GOP leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees have done so on a number of key occasions during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term.

Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Rep. Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., both longtime ...Read more

Tatum Dale, a longtime campaign manager and former chief of staff to Kentucky Rep. Andy Barr, died Dec. 24.

The Republican congressman who represents the Lexington area in the U.S. House of Representatives and is running to take the seat of retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell shared news of her passing Thursday.

In a news release and statement ...Read more

President Trump wished a Merry Christmas to all, including “Radical Left Scum.”

“Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly,” the President posted Wednesday on his Truth Social media platform and Elon Musk’s X.

Some of the President’s ...Read more