A largely overlooked part of the executive order President Donald Trump issued this week scaling back the schedule for childhood vaccines threatens legal action against the four states that don’t allow personal or religious exemptions to school vaccine requirements.

Those states — California, Connecticut, Maine and New York — are among ...Read more

When college students head back to campus for the fall semester, more of them will have guaranteed access to abortion medication.

Colorado recently joined California, Illinois, Massachusetts and New York in requiring public colleges and universities to provide abortion medication to students on campus or arrange to make it available to them ...Read more

Widespread denial accompanied the public exposure of Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse and trafficking of girls and women.

After the U.S. Justice Department released millions of case documents on Epstein in January 2026, billionaires, politicians, heads of state and academics proclaimed their ignorance of Epstein’s ...Read more

Why do disagreements about vaccines, climate change or elections often feel so personal? Our research suggests it is not simply because other people have different beliefs. It is because we think those beliefs are mistaken.

We are behavioral scientists who study the role of beliefs in politics and everyday life. Our new research finds...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats seeking to retake control of Congress are planning broad investigations into President Donald Trump and his family's business dealings as part of an agenda focused on alleged corruption and economic harm, while keeping impeachment an option rather than an immediate priority.

The strategy would use subpoenas, committee ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s chief negotiating strategy consists of keeping the other party guessing about what he might do next. As this pertains to Iran, the president has repeatedly threatened Tehran with additional military action only to back off once new “peace talks” are on the table.

But it has become increasingly apparent that this ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is asking voters to return her to Congress — less than four months after she resigned from the House of Representatives.

Cherfilus-McCormick is one of five Democrats seeking her party’s nomination in the reconfigured Broward County 20th Congressional District in the Aug. 18 primary. The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County election officials are examining steps ahead of the November midterms to respond to the rising popularity of election trading via prediction markets, including a possible ban on wagering for county election workers.

The discussions follow a fracas during the June ballot count, when a handful of influencers ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Darren McAuley served 26 years in the Air National Guard with worldwide combat deployments, but it was his work as a doctor at Tampa’s veterans hospital that inspired his run as a Democrat in Tampa Bay’s Congressional District 12.

McAuley said he saw firsthand how workforce and budget cuts from the federal government last ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has asked a federal appeals court to pause a judge’s order imposing sanctions on him and his lawyers for how they handled his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service while he appeals that ruling.

Trump is challenging a Miami judge’s findings that he brought the IRS case in “bad faith�...Read more

The latest financial disclosures in the race to replace former Rep. Eric Swalwell show one candidate pulling far ahead of another financially – with significant backing by outside donors and those tied to a pro-Israel group.

Of the direct donations given to BART Board President Melissa Hernandez between July 1 and July 29, less than 1% came ...Read more

Strengthening the United States’ economic and military alliances with partner countries against China was top of mind for a U.S. delegation trip to East Asia, led by U.S. Rep. Young Kim.

The bipartisan congressional delegation spent 10 days in South Korea, Japan and Taiwan to examine aspects of the U.S. relationship with each, said Kim, R-...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina voters broadly express confidence in the fairness of the election process, but sizable minorities still believe voter fraud and foreign influence could be major problems, according to a new poll released on Wednesday by Elon University.

Elon’s poll, which surveyed 800 registered voters last month, found that ...Read more

Donald Trump’s social media company has been leaning on Wall Street’s fear of missing out in its pitch for a controversial new subscription to faster feeds from the president’s Truth Social account.

It’s the latest gambit by Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., which has previously leaned into Wall Street fads like cryptocurrencies and...Read more

GENEVA, Ohio, and JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. — Unburdened by a Congress on summer break, President Donald Trump on Tuesday watched his Patriot Games finale like a stoic Roman emperor.

But he was soon reminded that congressional business looms, and acknowledged the 80th Congress built a legal wall that could spell a dead end for his third-term ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on Tuesday launched a campaign ad against her Republican challenger, John Braun, accusing the state senator of seeking to limit abortion access nationwide.

Last week, the National Republican Congressional Committee — the national campaign committee dedicated to electing Republicans to the U.S. House...Read more

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quietly split with her fiancé, Riley Roberts, well before she began freezing her eggs, according to reports.

The longtime couple called off their engagement almost two years ago, according to Leigh Ann Caldwell, chief Washington correspondent at Puck. TMZ also confirmed their breakup late Tuesday, citing ...Read more

The Trump administration again on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene — and fast — to save President Donald Trump’s plan for the U.S. Postal Service to place new nationwide limits on mail voting ahead of the November midterms.

It did so after a lower court judge blocked the Postal Service plan from moving forward for a ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Central Florida Congressman Cory Mills faces dwindling campaign funds and growing opposition from members of his own party, potentially imperiling his reelection bid with less than a week to go before the primary.

But Mills, who is under investigation by a congressional ethics committee and, reportedly, by the U.S. Department ...Read more

Israel’s election in two months may see out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s religious-rightist government, but a major shift in West Bank policy would be needed for there to be peace in the territory, the top Palestinian diplomat said.

“You can change the faces as much as you want. If the policy remains the same, then the issues ...Read more