SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The two candidates vying to be Sacramento’s next mayor agree — the number one issue voters care about this election cycle is homelessness. They disagree about what to do about it.

Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s successor takes office Dec. 10 and will inherit a city with roughly 1,300 shelter beds — virtually all of ...Read more

Legalizing marijuana isn’t as hot-button an issue in this election as abortion or immigration, but both presidential candidates former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have weighed in, and for once, they’re in agreement.

Both, however, are missing a big point.

Last month, Trump posted on the Truth Social platform: �...Read more

WASHINGTON — There’s an old proverb that fits Derek Kilmer: If you love something, sometimes you have to let it go.

The Washington Democrat led the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress — better known on the Hill as “ModCom” or the “Fix Congress Committee” — where he oversaw the drafting of more than 200 ...Read more

Israel and Iran are at war. In truth, the two sides have been fighting for decades, but the conflict has played out largely under the cover of covert and clandestine operations.

The recent actions of both sides in this once “shadow war” have changed the nature of the conflict. It is not clear that de-escalation is on the horizon.<...Read more

Elon Musk said he would attend a rally that Donald Trump is holding on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, the setting of the first assassination attempt on the former president.

In a post late Thursday New York time on his social platform X, the billionaire wrote, “I will be there to support!” in response to the Republican presidential ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III has sent to leaders of the Armed Services panels a 15-page letter detailing his serious worries about several dozen pending provisions in the House or Senate NDAAs.

Some of these are “topics of significant concern,” Austin wrote in the Sept. 26 letter, obtained by CQ Roll Call. “lf left...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will spend about $1.2 billion to maintain ships deployed as part of operations in the Red Sea and to replenish stocks of missiles fired to repel attacks by Iran and its proxies, according to new budget documents.

The spending, detailed in two Sept. 6 budget documents submitted to congressional defense committees and ...Read more

LONGVIEW, Wash. — U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Republican challenger Joe Kent battled over abortion, immigration, federal spending and foreign wars during a testy debate Wednesday in their nationally watched race that could determine control of the House next year.

The debate, in a packed auditorium at Lower Columbia College, ...Read more

ATLANTA — The Georgia attorney general’s office has asked the state Supreme Court to reinstate the restrictive abortion law that a Fulton County judge struck down earlier this week.

In a court filing, Georgia Solicitor General Stephen Petrany asked the justices to “affirm basic constitutional principles” and put on hold an order made by...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For California, the 2018 wildfire season marked the “deadliest and most destructive” one on record, fire officials say. But then-President Donald Trump reportedly nearly declined to approve federal aid because of the state’s political makeup.

Trump changed his mind, however, after he was shown voter registration data from ...Read more

Florida should reverse course on its “harmful” abstinence-only requirements for public school health classes and allow schools to teach a comprehensive sex education curriculum, according to a letter sent to state leaders Thursday from seven Democrats serving in Congress.

“Abstinence-only programs have been consistently proven ineffective...Read more

KOCHVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told a crowd in Saginaw County Thursday that, he believes, Michigan will be the "biggest beneficiary" of his much-debated plan to place tariffs on goods imported into the United States.

Trump made the statement during an 80-minute speech on the campus of Saginaw Valley ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. David Valadao and former California Assemblyman Rudy Salas clashed over their records since entering public office in Wednesday’s debate for one of the nation’s most hotly contested 2024 congressional races.

The debate largely focused on lowering costs — on groceries, gas, housing and health care — in the San ...Read more

New polling shows a majority of voters think the country needs a third political party, but significantly more Democrats than Republicans feel this way. Could that spell trouble for Kamala Harris in what’s expected to be a tight election?

The new Gallup poll, released Oct. 1, found that 58% of surveyed Americans — that includes Democrats, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s new law that allows people to sue over election deepfakes was temporarily blocked by a federal judge.

The judge, in granting a preliminary injunction on Wednesday, wrote that the law likely violates the First Amendment given its broad scope, even if digitally altered media such as by artificial intelligence...Read more

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is once again targeting Haitians as part of his anti-immigration stance in this year’s elections, announcing plans to go after their immigration protections if he wins — just as he did in 2017.

Focusing on the Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio, Trump said he plans to revoke their Temporary ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump plans to return to Butler County, Pennsylvania, for a rally Saturday on the farm show grounds site where a would-be assassin nearly took his life in July, the chairman of the House task force investigating the shooting is on scene this week to help make certain the grave security ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan House task force is seeking a host of records and interviews with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in connection with attempts on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's life.

The task force, chaired by Butler Republican Rep. Mike Kelly, requested Thursday all records including transcripts, ...Read more

SAVANNAH, Ga. — In the view of Eduardo Delgado, the 2024 presidential election features candidates who don’t value Latino interests.

Former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, demonizes migrants and undocumented residents, threatening to go door to door in a massive deportation effort if elected. The Democratic candidate, Vice ...Read more