WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a group of current and former congressional lawmakers are not barred from recovering damages in a case over whether members of Congress are owed back pay for years of suppressed cost-of-living increases.

The lawmakers’ legal team has argued that Congress and the president have violated the ...Read more

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin released the long-awaited autopsy report of the 2024 elections Thursday following scrutiny over his initial decision to not release it.

In a statement, Martin apologized to fellow Democrats, some of whom had placed immense pressure on him to follow through on his promise to release the report when ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he called off the signing of an executive order that would address cybersecurity concerns raised by powerful new artificial intelligence models because he objected to parts of the directive, casting doubt on U.S. efforts to respond to new risks posed by the emerging technology.

“Because I didn’t ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday broadly upheld lawsuits by U.S. companies whose property was seized in Cuba prior to 1960, including claims against cruise ship lines that docked there in the past decade.

These suits do not seek compensation from Cubans but from those who "traffic in property which was confiscated by the Cuban ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders are closing up shop for the week without voting on their long-sought immigration budget bill, as Senate Republicans struggled to agree on legislative text amid an eleventh-hour fight over a new Justice Department “anti-weaponization” fund.

While Republican leaders had hoped to push the bill through both...Read more

WASHINGTON — New questions have emerged about whether President Donald Trump has lost sway with some Republican senators as they mull action related to a number of thorny foreign policy matters after they have clashed with Trump over the Iran war, the White House ballroom and his targeting of respected incumbents.

Trump’s Senate headwinds ...Read more

In a landmark decision several years into fierce litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday reversed an appeals court order that had tossed a $400 million judgment against four cruise ship companies that took passengers to Cuba and were sued for damages for “trafficking in confiscated property” by an American company owning a concession ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Democrat Earle Ford, an Army veteran and attorney who raised more than half a million dollars to unseat GOP U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida's Pinellas County, announced Thursday that he’s exiting the race and running to be the state’s chief financial officer instead.

The move comes after Florida Republicans redrew the...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis, the highest elected Democrat in Colorado, will be barred from serving as a guest of honor at state party functions for the foreseeable future as a rebuke for easing Tina Peters’ prison sentence last week, the state party’s central committee voted Wednesday night.

The prohibition is part of a formal condemnation ...Read more

Vanessa Trump opened up about her new health battle, revealing for the first time that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Trump, who was previously married to President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., offered the “personal health update” in a post shared to Instagram on Wednesday.

“While this isn’t news anyone expects,...Read more

The creation of an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” at the Department of Justice may have shocked a lot of people, but not Paul Figley, a legal scholar and former DOJ staffer who has spent years warning that taxpayer money could be used by an administration for political ends in just this way.

The fund, the result of a settlement of ...Read more

At Marine Corps Base Quantico in September 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promised assembled generals “maximum lethality” and no “stupid rules of engagement.” Under his leadership, the newly rebranded Department of War would “untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill.” Troops would be held ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is poised to issue an executive order as soon as Thursday aimed at bolstering artificial intelligence cybersecurity and has asked tech industry leaders to join for the event, according to people familiar with the matter.

The order that Trump is expected to sign would revamp existing cybersecurity ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s political team was full of bravado Wednesday after its winning streak in recent Republican primaries in Kentucky, Louisiana and Indiana, contests that put on display the president’s lasting hold over his Make America Great Again base.

“Do not ever doubt President Trump and his political power,” White House ...Read more

A day after declaring it would cost $8 billion to rebuild Penn Station — and a day before the Amtrak Board was scheduled to meet — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that a coalition of Halmar, the U.S. arm of Italian company ASTM Group, and the construction firm Skanska would be in charge of the massive project.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As the House faces growing calls to ban trading on prediction markets by members and staff, some are taking things into their own hands.

When Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., announced a new internal policy for his office in March, he described it as a way to make a stand as platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket become a “playground ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The relationship between some Republicans and President Donald Trump could be taking a “pretty sour” turn as some GOP lawmakers primaried out of their congressional seats by White House-backed candidates explore a newfound freedom to vote their minds.

That bodes poorly for Republicans’ efforts to unify and maintain their ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — The House voted 396-13 to pass housing legislation Wednesday after two key senators said the House bill would need work to pass the Senate.

The House vote on the measure was procedurally to adopt a resolution concurring in a Senate amendment, a move that effectively swapped in House text to the bill passed by the Senate. The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senators at a Commerce Committee panel hearing aired concerns Wednesday about rapidly growing prediction markets, appearing largely unswayed by industry arguments that they are not a form of betting subject to state regulation.

Members of the committee’s Consumer Protection, Technology and Data Privacy Subcommittee were in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — State Rep. Chris Rabb’s capture of the Democratic nomination to represent Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District on Tuesday marked a striking triumph for the progressive left, which has over the last decade installed democratic socialists into Philadelphia’s lower-level city and state offices, but had yet to notch such ...Read more