The vice president has stepped into the fray between the president and Pope Leo. For those of you who have not been following this, Pope Leo has been critical of various things that Trump has said regarding his war with Iran, including his statement that he was ready to wipe out Iranian civilization.

In response, Trump called Pope Leo too ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Minnesota congresswoman Kelly Morrison is selling her individual public and private stocks amid heightened scrutiny of congressional trading and questions about her extensive financial holdings.

Morrison, a first-term Democrat from the suburbs west of Minneapolis, is divesting assets that include up to $1.45 million in private ...Read more

Until recently, President Donald Trump always found a way to fail forward, through a combination of spin, threats, payoffs and bluster.

OK, that’s the simplistic interpretation. The fine print tells a less-glamorous story: a man born on third base who spent decades insisting he’d hit a triple.

Still, it’s hard to argue with success. When...Read more

Last April, President Donald Trump announced what will go down as one of the dumbest economic policy decisions in American history.

Nearly every economist told the president that tariffs imposed using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act were a loser — with disagreement coming mostly from how bad their impact would be — and the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Tuesday to take up a budget resolution that is designed to provide enough funding for immigration enforcement agencies through the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term.

On a strictly party-line vote of 52-46, the Senate agreed to proceed to a GOP-written budget resolution that marks the first step in a ...Read more

The leading candidates vying to be the next governor of California will step onto the debate stage three separate times in the coming weeks, giving them a final chance to make their pitch to voters in prime time before ballots land in mailboxes next month.

“It’s hard to overstate how important these debates are going to be,” said Melinda ...Read more

Florida Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned Tuesday afternoon, minutes before a scheduled Ethics Committee hearing and vote on what sanctions she should face for the more than two dozen counts of misconduct her colleagues charged her with last month.

In a public statement, Cherfilus-McCormick called the committee’s two-year long...Read more

Lynn Ianni didn't learn she was apparently dying in a Los Angeles County hospice care facility until her Medicare claim for a pickleball injury was rejected.

"At first we laughed because it was an obvious clerical error," the Seattle-based psychotherapist recalled before a congressional committee Tuesday, where she was providing testimony about...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A near-total abortion ban penalizing doctors and women easily cleared a full state Senate panel on Tuesday, but its chances at taking another step forward are unlikely.

While a majority of Republicans on the committee voted in favor of further restricting abortions in South Carolina, state Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort, said he ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As revelations of sexual misconduct continue to ripple through Congress, calls for change are dominating the halls — so much so that Speaker Mike Johnson said he’d lead the cause himself.

“We are looking at every potential avenue to tighten up the rules and make sure that women have an avenue to report,” Johnson, R-La., ...Read more

Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson apologized for supporting President Donald Trump during a repentant discussion with his brother Buckley Carlson.

“You wrote speeches for him, I campaigned for him. I mean, we’re implicated in this, for sure,” the podcaster confessed on Monday’s “The Tucker Carlson Show.”

Buckley says he voted for ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would like to see a buyer emerge for Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc. and was open to the government coming to the aid of the airline, while opposing a merger between American Airlines Group Inc. and United Airlines Holdings Inc.

“Spirit’s in trouble, and I’d love somebody to buy Spirit,” Trump said Tuesday ...Read more

Florida Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned Tuesday afternoon, minutes before a scheduled House Ethics Committee hearing and vote on what sanctions she should face for the more than two dozen counts of misconduct her colleagues charged her with last month.

In a public statement, Cherfilus-McCormick called the committee’s two-...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared ready to back limited forfeiture powers for federal agencies during oral arguments Tuesday, in a pair of challenges to the ability for the Federal Communications Commission to impose fines on alleged lawbreakers.

Telecommunications giants AT&T and Verizon asked the justices to toss more than $100 ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would have won the Vietnam War and threatened to resume airstrikes on Iran in the latest round of disturbing mixed messages about the Middle East conflict even as the warring sides prepare to return to the table for more peace talks.

Expressing impatience with negotiations, Trump suggested he has the ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s unprovoked and illegal attack on Iran has sent crude oil, gasoline and diesel prices through the roof. In addition, farmers are facing sharp increases in the cost of fertilizers produced from oil and gas.

But while the costs mount for regular people, the administration’s allies in the fossil fuel industry stand to ...Read more

As a new round of opinions begins to arrive in the coming weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court enters its most consequential season. From April through June, the justices release decisions that do more than resolve legal disputes; they shape the country’s direction.

Alexander Hamilton once called the court the “least dangerous” branch, lacking ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s super political action committee raised $35.6 million in March, bolstering his war chest to $550 million as he tries to defy history by hanging onto congressional Republican majorities in an increasingly difficult midterm election environment.

Billionaire Diane Hendricks, a longtime Republican donor who...Read more