Gov. Josh Shapiro has officially thrown his support behind Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie’s campaign to unseat U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick.

The Democratic governor’s endorsement comes a little more than a week ahead of the May 19 primary, when Harvie will face grassroots candidate Lucia Simonelli for the party’s nomination to face ...Read more

As gasoline prices have ratcheted higher across the U.S. due to the war in Iran, several Midwestern states have seen the steepest increases. That’s putting a strain on many of the voters Republicans need at the midterm elections in November to keep control of Congress.

Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin have all borne the brunt of ...Read more

A resolute Secretary of State Marco Rubio took to the White House lectern Tuesday and declared the United States, under President Trump's leadership, had launched a bold new operation to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, based on the principle that international waterways must remain free.

An hour later, Trump walked it all back, ending the complex...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The first time Highland Park resident Paul Zappia received a mailer criticizing Eunisses Hernandez, his representative on the Los Angeles City Council, he tossed it in the trash.

Then another arrived in his mailbox. And another, and another after that. Each came from a group called Neighbors First, which has been attacking ...Read more

NAZARETH, Pa. — Bob Brooks needed to clear his head.

The Democratic front-runner in one of this year’s most competitive races for Congress was a little over 24 hours away from his final debate, the first since a brutal performance a few weeks earlier.

The strains of a competitive primary were adding up.

And Brooks admitted as he trudged ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Matt Little, a former state legislator and mayor of Lakeville, won the 2nd District DFL endorsement May 9 after delegates opted for a progressive candidate to replace moderate Rep. Angie Craig.

His victory means a three-way Democratic primary will ensue in August.

Shortly before Little won the endorsement on the first ballot, ...Read more

The Trump family media group posted a net drop of $405.9 million in the first quarter, largely driven by unrealized losses in cryptocurrencies held by the company.

Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., which is the parent company of Truth Social, released its first-quarter 2026 results on Friday reporting a positive operating cash flow of $17....Read more

LOS ANGELES — The last time the Supreme Court threatened to end access to the country's most popular abortion method, California's network of online providers and their pharmaceutical suppliers scrambled to respond.

Now, with the fate of the cocktail used in roughly two-thirds of U.S. terminations once again in the balance, they're not even ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — For two months, commercials for physician Ala Stanford have dominated Philadelphia’s airwaves, as a Washington, D.C.-based political action committee has pumped more than $3 million into a congressional ad campaign for her.

But with less than two weeks until Election Day, Stanford’s top rivals are now getting some outside ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday allowed members of Congress to continue to conduct oversight visits to immigration detention facilities without a seven-day notice, with one judge saying the Department of Homeland Security did not show the visits were anything more than an administrative inconvenience.

A three-judge panel of the...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon made good on President Donald Trump’s promise to start releasing hundreds more declassified files linked to decades of UFO sightings, saying Americans can study the “new, never-before-seen” material and decide for themselves if aliens are real.

Among the 162 photos, videos and documents released Friday is an ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Former President Joe Biden was scheduled to speak Friday in Philadelphia at a gathering of the city’s Democratic officials and party faithful but said before the event he would be unable to attend.

Democratic City Committee Chair Bob Brady, in an email to attendees Friday afternoon, said he spoke with Biden and that the ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho state Sen. Jim Woodward wasn’t aware of any bad blood with Rep. Jordan Redman — both Republicans serving in the Legislature.

That is, until he learned that Redman, of Coeur d’Alene, had donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to a political action committee that, in turn, spent about $5,000 supporting Woodward’s ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota state Rep. Angie Craig’s run for the U.S. Senate has created a scramble for the state’s most competitive congressional seat.

Democrats Matt Little, a former state legislator and Lakeville mayor, state Sen. Matt Klein and state Rep. Kaela Berg are battling for the 2nd District DFL endorsement Saturday. Regardless if...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are preparing to challenge on procedural grounds a $1 billion provision in a GOP reconciliation bill that is connected to plans for a White House ballroom.

Democrats say the provision is a “glaring” violation of the Senate’s Byrd rule, which restricts the type of material that can be considered in a ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — A potential 2028 presidential contender launched a Rust Belt tour in Pittsburgh on Thursday to pitch his vision for a massive, New Deal-style expansion of the federal workforce.

To counter the coming social upheaval caused by the spread of artificial intelligence into a growing number of industries, U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna said the ...Read more

JUNEAU, Alaska — After vetoing the Legislature’s election reform bill last week, Gov. Mike Dunleavy requested a do-over with a largely similar elections bill Thursday. It includes a new signature verification process and delays implementation past the November general election.

But lawmakers said they don’t have the time or political will...Read more

On April 30, 2026, Texas executed James Broadnax, a Black man who was sentenced to death for the robbery and murder of two men in 2008.

Before the jury was seated, the prosecutor moved to dismiss each of the seven Black people from the jury pool. Citing court documents, CNN noted that he “(utilized) a spreadsheet during jury ...Read more