WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his team had several red lines that they used to justify the U.S. war against Iran. At a news conference Wednesday, Trump largely brushed them aside.

Explaining his decision to agree to an interim peace deal, Trump repeated his insistence that the country would never get a nuclear weapon. Yet he went on...Read more

A Raleigh man who allegedly posted Facebook videos threatening to kill President Donald Trump was arrested and charged by federal officials Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced Wednesday.

Christopher Key-Torrion Carnes, 33, was charged with communicating threats against the president of the ...Read more

Rep. Kevin Kiley now says former President Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election — a position he had repeatedly refused to state publicly in years past.

Kiley, who left the Republican Party to become an independent in March, provided the statement earlier this month while on a NewsNation segment about California’s slow primary vote ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Three weeks after members of Congress listened to and then publicly shared concerns from inside of Pennsylvania’s largest immigrant detention center for the first time, U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean said she was blocked from speaking with detainees while visiting the same facility on Wednesday.

Dean, D-Pa., said she was given “a...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — During Tuesday’s GOP debate Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and Attorney General Alan Wilson didn’t hold back any animus that built up over the last week since they advanced to a runoff election for the Republican nomination of governor.

Evette and Wilson sparred in their final televised debate appearance before two days of early ...Read more

Nearly six months after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump is increasingly portraying the operation as one of the defining victories of his foreign policy, arguing it transformed Venezuela from a hostile adversary into a strategic partner.

Speaking to reporters during the G7 summit in France, Trump pointed to the U.S.-backed...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congress is hopeful that the popularity of U.S. national parks and other public lands can translate into bipartisan support for a deferred maintenance fund whose reauthorization expired last year.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday approved a bill to reauthorize a fund providing $1.9 billion annually ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Another month, and another batch of rating changes that benefit Democrats.

But the House Republican majority is not lost yet, according to a district-by-district analysis of the House battleground.

With less than five months to go, the fundamentals of midterm elections continue to favor Democrats.

President Donald Trump’s job...Read more

Throughout history, rulers and political movements have used public spectacles of combat to evoke courage, sacrifice, collective strength and national purpose. From Roman gladiator contests to modern mixed martial arts, combat spectacles have served not merely as entertainment but as public rituals through which people experience belonging to...Read more

WASHINGTON — A pair of Republicans endorsed by Donald Trump won their Senate primary runoffs Tuesday, but the president suffered a setback in a Republican gubernatorial contest for the second time this month.

In Georgia, Rep. Mike Collins claimed the GOP Senate nomination, two days after picking up Trump’s support, while the president’s ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A TV ad released Wednesday by a group that wants U.S. Rep. John James to be Michigan's next governor touted the Republican congressman's backing of President Donald Trump.

The commercial from Mission Michigan came about seven weeks before the Aug. 4 primary election. According to the organization, it will spend more than $1 ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump’s emerging nuclear accord with Iran risks securing fewer restrictions than the deal negotiated by the administration of Barack Obama — one he derided and later scrapped.

The potential agreement, set to be negotiated over a 60-day period, will build on a memorandum of understanding that states only that Iran’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Robert White is poised to become the District of Columbia’s next nonvoting delegate to Congress, replacing retiring Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and bringing a fresh voice to the role for the first time in 36 years.

A current at-large D.C. councilmember, White emerged as the victor in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in the ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump’s emerging nuclear accord with Iran risks securing fewer restrictions than the deal negotiated by the administration of Barack Obama — one he derided and later scrapped.

The potential agreement, set to be negotiated over a 60-day period, will build on a memorandum of understanding that states only that Iran’s ...Read more

In January, the United States sent military forces into Venezuela, killing more than 50 people, to capture Nicolás Maduro to face federal charges. By even the most generous reading, that raid was legally questionable. A more honest reading sees it as an illegal use of military force to accomplish what the government itself treated as a criminal...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate and House leaders agreed Tuesday to a final version of comprehensive housing legislation that they believe will pass the Senate this week and the House next week, landing on the president’s desk for his expected signature.

The deal puts the chambers within reach of concluding almost a year of work on a major package that...Read more

Former Democratic state Sen. Richard Pan’s Tuesday morning news conference underscored what will be a central message of his November campaign: portraying his opponent, newly independent Rep. Kevin Kiley, as a staunch Republican loyal to President Donald Trump.

“Kevin Kiley clearly is trying to obfuscate who he is, what he stands for with ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House budget office released $351.6 million to the Secret Service on Friday for “White House Security Measures,” amid mounting criticism that taxpayer dollars may be tapped to help pay for President Donald Trump’s planned East Wing ballroom.

A database that tracks “apportionments” made by the Office of ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A northern Minnesota judge handed down a 30-day jail sentence to a head election judge this week for the felony offense of allowing 11 unregistered voters to cast ballots.

Timothy Scouton, 65, of Nevis, Minnesota, removed his glasses and closed his eyes on camera during his virtual sentencing Monday in Hubbard County District ...Read more

DETROIT — Gas prices might improve immediately following the deal between the United States and Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, but it'll be months before scarcities and other supply disruptions ease, KPMG US's chief economist said in Detroit.

Diane Swonk, a U.S. economic adviser, noted that halted rubber glove production in Bangladesh ...Read more