WASHINGTON — House Republicans passed their “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill early Thursday morning, sending to the Senate a filibuster-proof package that would deliver the major elements of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda, from tax cuts and border security to lifting the nation’s borrowing limit.

The 215-214 vote ...Read more

As Missouri and many other states continue their fractious political battles over the issue of reproductive rights, a Trump administration project is threatening to undermine those rights nationally: The Food and Drug Administration is unilaterally launching a “safety review” of mifepristone, the widely used abortion-inducing medication, ...Read more

“A profoundly dangerous and destabilizing thing.” That’s how Vice President JD Vance recently described America’s falling birthrate. Recently, the “inherently pronatalist” White House is considering a new set of proposals to address it — including government-funded menstrual cycle education and even a national medal for women who ...Read more

WASHINGTON — From the far reaches of South Texas to the dense urban enclaves of northern New Jersey, Republicans made significant gains with working-class Latino voters last year.

The upcoming midterm elections will test the durability of that rightward shift — and whether it’s transferable to down-ballot Republicans running in a time of ...Read more

Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly died this week at age 75, becoming the third member of Congress to die while in office this year. Is this unusual?

Connolly, a Democrat who was first elected in 2009, “passed away peacefully at his home” on Wednesday, according to a statement from his family.

He revealed in 2024 that he was battling esophageal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — After an uncomfortable Oval Office encounter with Donald Trump, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa becomes the latest world leader hoping to mend relations only to discover the U.S. president has something else in mind: confrontation.

He was seeking to secure Trump’s favor: catering to his ego with golf swag, a cadre of ...Read more

The U.S. Attorney’s office for South Carolina has a new role: defending Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., a controversial and outspoken member of Congress.

An assistant U.S. Attorney in the Greenville office, Robert Sneed, has been assigned to defend Mace against allegations that Mace libeled a Fort Mill man, Brian Musgrave, when she accused him of ...Read more

House Republican leaders worked frantically Wednesday night to resolve divisions over Medicaid and green energy provisions in Donald Trump’s signature tax bill that threaten plans to vote on it this week.

Opposition from some hardliners began to soften after an afternoon White House meeting with Trump, with Representative Andy Biggs throwing...Read more

House Republican leaders released a new version of President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending bill with a higher limit on the deduction for state and local taxes and other changes in a bid to win over warring GOP factions to support the legislation.

The updated legislation released Wednesday night also would speed up cuts to Medicaid ...Read more

Tuesday, the S&P 500 edged back into positive territory for 2025. That’s remarkable given that on April 7, the widely followed stock market index was showing a gut-wrenching 21% decline from its record high on Feb. 19.

The so-called Magnificent 7 tech stocks also have returned to their prior glories after looking anything but magnificent in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna D-Calif., represents Silicon Valley, but this weekend, he’ll rail against President Donald Trump and GOP-proposed cuts to health care from podiums in Allentown and Levittown, two battleground communities in a state critical to the 2026 midterms.

For Khanna, a progressive lawmaker and an ally of Sen. Bernie...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal school voucher program has long eluded conservatives, even as advocates for school choice have scored victories in more than a dozen red states over the past two years.

Now, a sweeping proposal by House Republicans to allocate $5 billion a year to provide a tax break for families who choose to send their children to ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nearly 100 people rallied outside the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in San Jose on Thursday to protest what they called repressive immigration policies as the U.S. Supreme Court considers the legality of President Donald Trump’s immigration-related executive orders targeting children of noncitizens and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has developed a draft architecture and plan to implement the proposed “Golden Dome” air and missile defense system, its spokesman said, as questions mount about the Trump administration’s ambitious project.

Following President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order, the Pentagon “gathered the brightest ...Read more

President Donald Trump has stated that birthright citizenship — which his administration is trying to overturn in court — was originally intended for a narrow group of people: the children of slaves.

But multiple experts disagree, arguing that, from the very beginning, the legal principle was meant to apply far more broadly.

“Birthright ...Read more

It’s been more than 100 days since President Donald Trump took office. He vowed during the campaign to bring down food prices on day one, and while egg prices are finally falling, the cost of other consumer goods remains high.

Now $6 per pound, the average price of ground beef hit a record high for the third consecutive month, jumping 15 ...Read more

If the 2024 presidential election were held again today, President Donald Trump might not win the White House, according to new polling.

In a Strength in Numbers/Verasight survey, 40% of respondents said they would vote for former Vice President Kamala Harris “if the U.S. was holding a do-over election today.” Meanwhile, 36% said they would...Read more

WASHINGTON — A majority of the Supreme Court appeared ready Thursday to place some limits on the power of single federal district judges to freeze presidential actions nationwide, in oral arguments over the future of President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship.

However, the justices appeared divided on just how to do so in...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court gave a skeptical hearing Thursday to a lawyer for President Trump who was appealing rulings that blocked his plan to deny citizenship to newborns whose parents were in this country illegally or temporarily.

None of the justices spoke in favor of Trump's plan to restrict birthright citizenship, and several were ...Read more

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation this week that could allow President Donald Trump and others to recoup millions of dollars in legal costs in the Georgia election interference case. Here’s what we know:

What does the bill do?

Senate Bill 244 would allow a criminal defendant to recover “reasonable” attorney fees and legal ...Read more