SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California recall elections could get a makeover if voters approve a constitutional amendment this November.

Under current rules, voters casting ballots in recall elections face two choices at once: whether a politician should be recalled, and who should replace them.

Proposition 5 would drop the question over who should...Read more

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued new grant guidelines that threaten to withhold counterterrorism funds from states that do not comply with President Donald Trump’s election security directives.

The agency told states they must “reconcile the number of voters who voted in federal elections with the number of ...Read more

DENVER — Shimon Blau, a Denver doctor who said he was “saddened and alarmed” by the victory of Democrat Melat Kiros in last month’s 1st Congressional District primary, has qualified for the November ballot as an independent candidate.

Blau submitted 2,212 petition signatures to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office on July 9 to run...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has increasingly flashed frustration with the war in Iran, as the conflict that his team once predicted would end in a matter of weeks stretches into its fifth month and fighting intensifies.

The war’s seemingly intractable new chapter has unleashed fresh economic turmoil and driven up energy prices, ...Read more

Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council has set the first round of presidential, legislative and municipal elections for Dec. 13, with final results expected on March 12, 2027, in what would be the country’s first general elections in more than a decade.

Whether that timetable is achievable remains an open question.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina will go first in the 2028 Democratic primary contest nominating order, a move that keeps the Palmetto State in the early window and receiving outsized attention from White House hopefuls.

The decision was made Friday by the Democratic National Committee’s rules and bylaws committee. The full Democratic ...Read more

New Jersey made national headlines earlier this week when it was revealed that 6,600 noncitizens had been added to the state’s voter rolls between June 2023 and June 2024 — and roughly 400 of them had cast ballots since then. Not good.

Especially given the moment, when debates over election integrity have become intensely polarized and the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., defied expectations and kept his fractured conference together to pass several priority items before House members jetted home on Thursday to kick off a five-week recess.

But how much of that legislation their colleagues in the Senate will take up is a different question, as divisions continue to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. extended a 10% tariff baseline hitting most major trading partners, prompting pushback from countries around the world while shoring up a protectionist wall that’s been a top priority for President Donald Trump despite its unpopularity at home.

In a 431-page filing in the Federal Register, the U.S. Trade Representative...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. will collect duties of between 10% and 12.5% on imports from most major trading partners, its biggest move yet to reconstruct President Donald Trump’s tariff wall that was struck down by the Supreme Court.

The new levies follow an investigation into the alleged failure of around 60 economies to prevent forced labor in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Early on in his tenure, U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick proved himself to the largest federal employees union in the United States.

In 2017, President Donald Trump signed a law to improve whistleblower protections and set guidelines for employee misconduct at the Department of Veterans Affairs. But the American Federation of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. will collect duties of between 10% and 12.5% on imports from most major trading partners, its biggest move yet to reconstruct President Donald Trump’s tariff wall that was pierced by the Supreme Court.

The new levies follow an investigation into the alleged failure of around 60 economies to prevent forced labor in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The most powerful frontier artificial intelligence models would need a “kill switch” under new bipartisan legislation released days after a frontier model went rogue to hack another AI company.

The bill, introduced Thursday, would also give the Department of Homeland Security new power to order model shutdowns, as AI labs and...Read more

It’s been four years since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the federal constitutional right to abortion.

In the immediate aftermath of the decision, national attention centered on implementation of state bans and a rapidly shifting legal landscape.

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The 2026 primaries are resurfacing controversies about mail-in ballots that were at the heart of election disputes in 2020.

California’s June 2 primary – in which candidates from every party ran together and the top two advanced to the general election – raised eyebrows because of its so-called “red mirage.” A mirage is a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States will collect duties of between 10% and 12.5% on imports from most major trading partners, its biggest move yet to reconstruct President Donald Trump’s tariff wall that was pierced by the Supreme Court.

The new levies follow an investigation into the alleged failure of around 60 economies to prevent forced ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House and Senate, in votes Thursday on ending the Iran war, came to different conclusions, but the majority of voting members of Congress said it is time to bring U.S. troops home.

The House, for the second time, formally called on President Donald Trump to end the war, approving 214-208 a nonbinding concurrent resolution (H ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Some foreign-policy-minded senators are dismissing President Donald Trump’s assessment that Iranian officials have been disrupting the Strait of Hormuz to influence the midterm elections.

Several senators — Democratic and Republican — furrowed brows or shook their heads Wednesday when asked about Trump a day earlier ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House’s growing frustration with Senate Majority Leader John Thune seeped into public again on Thursday, the second consecutive day team Trump has vented at the chamber’s Republican leader.

“His patience is running out,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, referring to President Donald Trump’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was coy last year when asked if the feds would be seeking to rename Penn Station as part of their takeover of the project — but now the demand is explicit.

In a letter sent Wednesday to Senate leadership on several committees — a copy of which was obtained by the Daily News — Duffy lists �...Read more