WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that New Jersey Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver is not immune from prosecution over a tense incident that unfolded outside an immigration detention center last year.

The three-judge panel declined to toss out assault charges against her, even as McIver argued her arrest interfered with her ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday offered House Republicans a window into what’s on his mind just days before they return from an August break, painting an overly rosy picture of the economy and taking a new interest in federal beef regulations.

Speaking to conservative commentator Glenn Beck, Trump repeated his message on ...Read more

Days after the top elections official in Shasta County, California, announced that he planned to hire an election denier who served prison time for tampering with voting machines, county leaders there made an extraordinary plea to state and federal authorities: Please come investigate.

A statement released by the county Tuesday afternoon said ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With two months to go before Election Day, Democrats continue to have the advantage in the fight for the House as Inside Elections shifts its race rating of seven more districts in the party’s favor.

Some of the movement affects the current contours of the House battleground.

The contest for California’s 21st District, ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday vowed to fight President Donald Trump’s plan to restrict mail-in voting by ordering the post office not to deliver ballots to voters in some Democratic-led states.

After the Supreme Court put on hold a federal judge’s previous ruling that blocked Trump’s move, James decried...Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared “Mission Accomplished” in Iran even as the unpopular and costly war drags on with no end in sight and no sign that the United States is close to achieving any of the lofty goals he set for the conflict.

Trump posted an image of himself along with Iran’s slain former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrat Everton Blair has won the special election to succeed the late Democratic Rep. David Scott, becoming the first openly gay man elected to Congress from Georgia.

With more than 95% of votes counted, Blair, a former chair of the Gwinnett County school board, was leading fellow Democrat Marcye Scott, the late congressman’s...Read more

A coalition of Democratic-led states sued again Wednesday to block the U.S. Postal Service from implementing new nationwide rules for mail ballots, arguing they usurp state authority over elections at President Donald Trump’s behest, expose voter information unnecessarily and threaten chaos in the rapidly approaching November election.

The ...Read more

Memo to President Donald Trump: Canada is our friend.

A round of recent trade talks, necessitated in the first place by a series of American tariffs on our neighbor to the north early in Trump’s second term, collapsed late last week and now the U.S. is embroiled in the most foolish of trade wars with Canada. The Trump administration reacted ...Read more

Fourteen of the nation’s current governors once served in Congress.

By early next year, that number could grow to 20 if the states and territories with current or former members on their gubernatorial ballot end up electing them in November.

Six states and one territory have an opportunity this fall to elect a governor with congressional ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a jolt to the impending midterm elections by reviving President Donald Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting while creating a tangle of new legal and logistical questions as states prepare to make ballots available.

The court’s conservative majority on Monday agreed with the Justice ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A 73-year-old man suspected in the vandalism of political campaign signs across the Las Vegas Valley has been arrested.

David Smith was arrested and booked Monday into the Clark County Detention Center for placing graffiti or defacing property, $5,000 or greater, according to a Metropolitan Police Department release.

Campaign ...Read more

Illinois’ Democratic leaders expressed trepidation Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with plans that could severely limit mail-in voting, raising warnings that it could create chaos for the Nov. 3 general election.

With the first day to vote by mail in Illinois less than a month away on Sept. 24,...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A Supreme Court decision on mail voting has created uncertainty with less than 70 days until critical midterm elections, but Pennsylvania Democrats are trying to reassure voters that they’ll have the option to cast a ballot by mail.

More litigation over this highly watched issue is expected and further rulings could still ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday distanced herself from President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement last week that he had reached a deal with still-unnamed countries to ramp up beef imports.

Trump on Friday announced a plan to temporarily allow more tariff-free foreign beef into the United States in an effort ...Read more

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Tuesday defended his recent meeting with Jared Kushner as a way to explore possible bipartisan cooperation even as he vowed to keep fighting aggressively against President Donald Trump’s right-wing agenda and to hold the “Trump cartel” accountable for alleged corruption.

While the sit-down produced no concrete results...Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America if Canada doesn’t cave to his demands in the still-escalating trade war.

After days of verbal jousting, Trump singled out the Canadian industrial powerhouse province whose premier has derided him as a dictator and worse.

“The United States is ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s executive order on vaccines, signed August 10, is the latest in his administration’s endless attacks on public health. It recommends that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, or MMR, be separated into three individual shots. There is no scientific evidence or public health data to support this decision. Trump has ...Read more

The reaction to a procedural ruling by the Supreme Court on Aug. 24, 2026, was immediate and sharp.

The conservative justices’ decision in the 6-3 ruling to lift a block on implementation of President Donald Trump’s March 2026 executive order imposing restrictions on mail voting had voting rights advocates and many state officials...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump floated the idea of changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in a social media post Tuesday amid an intensifying feud with Canada.

The Republican president posted about the possibility of the name switch at about 7 a.m. Last year, he issued an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of ...Read more