A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday that removes President Donald Trump's ban on three news outlets from White House grounds, a rebuke of the administraton's most severe attack yet on the Washington press corps.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said in his ruling that the administration's ban is likely unconstitutiona...Read more

President Donald Trump has often sparred effectively with the mainstream media outlets. His latest skirmish, however, is a misstep.

On Friday, Trump announced that CNN, MS NOW and Politico were no longer welcome in the White House. He justified this decision by writing on Truth Social that they constantly report “fake news.”

Over the ...Read more

“You can’t debate a liar.” That’s the rationale given by Democratic gubernatorial nominee David Jolly, who announced earlier this week that he would not participate in a debate with Byron Donalds, his GOP counterpart.

We vehemently disagree. In fact, face-to-face debate is often one of the best ways to challenge a rival on their beliefs...Read more

GOLIAD, Texas — Standing on a stage draped with patriotic bunting in this red pocket of the Lone Star State, Bobby Pulido prodded the audience of several hundred to look past the “D” next to his name.

Pulido, a Tejano singer who has two Latin Grammy Awards and broad name recognition across South Texas, is the Democratic nominee for a ...Read more

There may never be a more favorable setup for a midterm election cycle than the current iteration.

As we roll into the thick of this year’s fall campaigns, Democrats are all wringing their hands about taking Congress back. We will get the House, they stoutly declare, then add a frail whisper that the Senate could be a long shot.

The ...Read more

President Donald Trump denounced reporting by MS NOW that administration officials have floated attaching his name to Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where an assassin killed President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

“The story that the White House, or me, want to affix my name to Ford’s Theater, in Washington, D.C., where Abraham Lincoln was ...Read more

A phrase used repeatedly through the years is that “the road to the White House runs through North Carolina.”

But in 2026, the road to control of the U.S. Senate starts in North Carolina, seen by many as the most likely state to flip party control in November.

Which helps explain why President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance ...Read more

VIRGINIA BEACH — Rhena Hicks considers herself fortunate that she and her husband were able to save money and buy a house five years ago at a low interest rate. If they were shopping for a home today, Hicks believes it would be a different story.

“I don’t know if we could do it, or we would be in a much smaller place, or maybe not as nice...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge appeared skeptical of the Trump administration’s argument that the president had valid national security grounds for banning three news outlets from the White House, but didn’t immediately rule on whether to reinstate their access.

U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly, at a hearing Wednesday in Washington, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rep. Kevin Kiley’s campaign has sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Sacramento television station over a new political advertisement that compares the congressman to a duck and highlights his past endorsement from President Donald Trump.

The 30-second ad — titled “Duck” — began airing Monday on ABC10 (KXTV) and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Amid industry and government calls for a pause on the most advanced artificial intelligence development, leading progressives are drawing a line in the sand on one type of AI.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, unveiled legislation Wednesday that would ban AI...Read more

The conventional wisdom is that the Democratic Party has the advantage in the 2026 midterm elections and could become the majority party in one, or both, chambers of Congress. The margin of that anticipated victory is harder to predict.

And the size of a party’s majority makes a difference. To see why, it’s worth looking back to ...Read more

Recently, I moderated a national event that had college students speaking with election officials, something I often find myself doing this time of year. This year, a new question kept coming up: “If I’m voting by mail, can I trust my ballot will actually show up?”

For college students, such considerations have urgency. Many are...Read more

President Donald Trump announced Friday that CNN, MS NOW and Politico would be barred from the White House because of reporting he characterized as false and unfair. Reporters from the three organizations were subsequently denied access, and the outlets filed a federal lawsuit alleging violations of their First and Fifth Amendment rights.

The ...Read more

A disturbing innovation of President Donald Trump’s deportation dragnet has replaced confrontational invasions of big cities like Minneapolis and Los Angeles with a quieter and, unfortunately, more effective crackdown in the nation’s least visible corners.

Pennsylvania’s coal country is among the unlikely targets of this latest wave of ...Read more

The story of this political moment keeps getting written like President Donald Trump is the main character — his impulses, his conflicts, his latest post on Truth Social.

But the more important story is happening one branch over, where a Republican-controlled Congress has spent the last several weeks demonstrating, in real time, what it looks...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Incumbent U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., and progressive challenger Mai Vang are in a fierce intraparty and generational battle for the Sacramento region’s 7th Congressional District.

Matsui, 81, faces her toughest reelection campaign since she took over the seat 21 years ago. Vang, 41, is part of a broader wave of ...Read more

More than a year and a half into President Donald Trump’s second term, U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., has voted against the White House and the GOP more than any other House Republican.

Yet he has still voted with the president and his party nearly 70% and 77% of the time, respectively, during this congressional term, according to a new ...Read more

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's wife used to spend her evenings cooking a big meal for her husband and waiting for him to return home from his job as a homebuilder. Now, his son told members of Congress, Salgado Araujo's wife spends those evenings visiting her husband's grave at the cemetery.

In a packed Senate hearing room, a rapt audience of dozens ...Read more