WASHINGTON — Three pieces of cryptocurrency legislation and the fiscal 2026 Defense appropriations bill appeared ready for House floor action on Wednesday after stalling out for much of the day on Tuesday.

After a group of conservative Republican lawmakers sank the rule for floor debate over objections to how the crypto bills were being sent ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The rift within the Republican Party over the release of documents related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein continued to widen, with top congressional allies of President Donald Trump — including House Speaker Mike Johnson — calling for his administration to exercise greater transparency.

The growing controversy has ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Virginia Foxx sat at the front Monday night and smiled slowly before her face stiffened.

She pinched her thumb against her pointer and middle fingers and rubbed them together.

She started to speak, just for a moment, but instead clenched her jaw.

Then she narrowed her gaze on Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, a Democrat from ...Read more

Central Florida U.S. Rep. Cory Mills could face eviction from a luxury Washington, D.C., penthouse after his landlord sued and accused him of failing to pay tens of thousands of dollars in rent.

The Republican congressman owes about $85,000 in missed rental payments from March until this month, Bozzuto Management Co. alleged in a lawsuit filed ...Read more

President Donald Trump returned to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to tout massive private sector investments in artificial intelligence and energy in the key battleground state, but he also found time to weave into unrelated topics, including taking potshots at his predecessor.

Trump’s visit took him to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republican appropriators are running into headwinds in their attempt to move fiscal 2026 spending bills before the August break, struggling both with a tight schedule and intraparty differences on funding levels that threaten House passage.

House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., conceded Tuesday that his panel won...Read more

President Trump on Tuesday accused Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., of committing mortgage fraud by intentionally misleading lenders about his primary residence being in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., rather than California, in order to “get a cheaper mortgage and rip off America.”

Schiff, who led a House impeachment of Trump during the ...Read more

ATLANTA — The 2026 elections may seem like a long way away, but that’s not how Georgia state lawmakers see it.

Plans — from new voting machines to even more new voting laws — are already underway as a special legislative committee dominated by Republican lawmakers met for the first time Tuesday.

Members of the House Study Committee on ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland’s oldest lawmaker hasn’t announced whether he’ll run for reelection. But if he doesn’t, it won’t be for lack of funding.

Rep. Steny Hoyer, a Prince George’s County Democrat, raised roughly $232,000 during the second fundraising quarter, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings. After expenses, ...Read more

The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners had previously argued that the state’s election code barred its employees from forming a union. But the law shouldn’t be read that way, administrative law Judge Anna Hamburg-Gal found in an order Monday that paves the way for official recognition of the union.

City elections workers, including ...Read more

With President Donald Trump threatening several U.S. trading partners with substantial tariffs the first of August, Gov. Jared Polis and other Democratic governors said Monday that they are taking steps to oppose policies they consider harmful to their states’ businesses.

Polis issued an executive order directing the Colorado Office of ...Read more

The Supreme Court on Monday gave President Trump the authority to dismantle the Education Department and to fire about half of its staff.

In a 6-3 decision, the court's conservatives set aside a Boston judge's order and cleared the way for Education Secretary Linda McMahon to carry out her plans to shut down much of her department.

The court ...Read more

Gov. Greg Abbott’s special session agenda includes the redrawing of congressional districts mid-decade. This comes after the U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter to the governor and attorney general saying three Houston districts and one Fort Worth district are “unconstitutional ‘coalition districts’” and are racially drawn.

A ...Read more

Gov. Josh Shapiro and Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin said this week they think State Sen. Sharif Street should consider stepping down as Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party chair as he runs for U.S. Congress.

The comments from the two top Democratic heavyweights come as Street this month announced his campaign for the Third ...Read more

After mulling a run for governor of Iowa, Republican Rep. Zach Nunn has decided to seek reelection to his Des Moines-centered swing seat, a development first announced by President Donald Trump.

“Just spoke to Great Combat Veteran Zach Nunn, and he is committed to the mission of, HOLDING THE MAJORITY,’’ Trump said on his Truth Social ...Read more

Pennsylvania Democrat Janelle Stelson, who narrowly lost a battleground race in the Harrisburg-based 10th District last year, announced Monday her long-awaited second challenge to Republican Rep. Scott Perry.

Perry won a seventh term last year by defeating Stelson, a former broadcast journalist, by just over a percentage point, his narrowest ...Read more