Katie Hill and Steve Knight are waging one of the most fiercely competitive congressional races in the country, a free-for-all spilling from the pin-neat subdivisions of Simi Valley to the scrubland of the high desert.

Hill, a Democrat, has been featured on HBO and profiled in several national publications. Knight, a two-term GOP incumbent, is ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The White House press secretary said the Trump administration had punished "bad behavior" after a planned CNN interview with national security adviser John Bolton was canceled following a tense exchange between President Donald Trump and one of the network's correspondents.

Bolton had been booked to appear on CNN's "State of the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's road to confirmation may have a little-noticed obstacle: Sen. Rand Paul's firm views on privacy.

While abortion has gotten most of the attention in the partisan fight over the nomination, the Kentucky Republican strongly disagrees with Kavanaugh on the meaning of the Constitution's Fourth ...Read more

WASHINGTON--Democratic members of the group of lawmakers with access to particularly sensitive intelligence information expressed concern Thursday about broader dissemination -- to other members of Congress.

The Thursday letter directed to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats was publicly released on Friday.

"In recent days, we learned ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A whisper campaign is underway to promote U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina as the next speaker of the House of Representatives.

Allies of the Democratic lawmaker, currently assistant House Democratic leader, say the conversations are still in the early stages. They add, however, there are real and active efforts to pitch ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- For a guy who regularly preaches the virtues of sovereignty, Donald Trump sure had a lot to say this week about how other people are running their countries.

He attacked Angela Merkel for a pipeline deal with Russia. He badgered NATO allies to more rapidly increase their defense spending. He chastised Theresa May for ignoring his ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Katherine M. Clark has proposed legislation that would prevent people convicted of animal cruelty from accessing firearms.

Clark, D-Mass., said her bill would close an existing loophole and cited a study from the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Northeastern University linking animal ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The GOP's race to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is sparking a furious battle between liberal and conservative groups to sway half a dozen pivotal senators who are giving little hint of how they'll vote.

Many senators are falling along party lines over the nomination of Kavanaugh, a 53-year-old appellate court judge...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The deputy sergeant-at-arms of the Senate has been picked by President Donald Trump to be the deputy administrator of NASA.

James W. Morhard, who has been deputy SAA since Republicans took over the Senate majority in 2015, has largely focused on the various administrative functions of the Senate.

He should be no real stranger to ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The calls on the left to abolish the government's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency reached Capitol Hill on Thursday, as three Democratic representatives filed legislation to close the agency that has become the face of immigration raids in the Trump administration.

"ICE is not working in its current form because the ...Read more

BRUSSELS -- President Donald Trump threw the annual NATO summit deeper into crisis Thursday -- forcing an emergency session and suggesting the United States could leave the nearly 70-year-old alliance -- before switching positions and claiming victory.

As the summit closed, the president held an unexpected news conference, taking credit for ...Read more

As a candidate for president, Donald Trump vowed to accomplish a great many things with the ease and simplicity of snapping his fingers.

Once in office, however, he discovered that achieving those goals -- dismantling Obamacare, slashing the federal debt, building a wall along the border with Mexico, among other promises -- was far more ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's rulings on federal regulatory power, and his approach to the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, provide the best hints of how he might rule on cases involving states' rights.

Kavanaugh was nominated by President Donald Trump Monday to take the seat being vacated by Justice Anthony ...Read more