NEW YORK — If Tuesday’s sweep by Democratic socialists across New York validated Mayor Zohran Mamdani as the city’s kingmaker, it also established controversial streamer Hasan Piker as an emerging power behind the throne.

The Twitch star and political commentator spent Election Day crisscrossing the city, lending his audience of millions ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As concerns grow over insider trading on prediction markets, a House panel advanced a bill Wednesday that would curb how lawmakers can use them.

House Administration Chair Bryan Steil, R-Wis., described his proposal as a narrow but important “step in restoring public trust.” With the midterm elections approaching, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans on Capitol Hill had been hoping to spend the summer touting a rare bipartisan legislative feat, but Donald Trump and his growing anger toward Senate Republicans torched that effort Wednesday. And more trouble could lie ahead, if a tense in-person meeting was any indication.

Trump descended on the Capitol for a Senate ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring major changes to the way Americans vote suffered another courtroom defeat, this time in a suit brought by Democratic state attorneys general who disputed the government’s claims of widespread voter fraud.

Chief U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston on Wednesday issued a...Read more

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a measure into law Wednesday shielding patients from having electronic medical records related to abortion and other reproductive health services received in Illinois disclosed without their consent to out-of-state providers.

Marking the fourth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s “devastating” Dobbs decision ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump canceled his planned signing Wednesday of the landmark housing bill Congress passed this week, in a striking decision to jeopardize a rare bipartisan success in order to demand that lawmakers pass voter ID legislation.

The president’s reversal, as a stage and chairs for the signing ceremony were set up ...Read more

The federal Office of Management and Budget is requesting that $1 billion of an $87.6 billion defense funding package be earmarked for Penn Station, the Daily News has learned.

The funding request is one of several “urgent needs” outlined in a letter — obtained by the Daily News — from Trump’s budget director, Russell Vought, to House...Read more

BALTIMORE — Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth, an Annapolis resident, is the projected winner of the Democratic primary to continue representing Maryland’s District 3 in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Elfreth was sworn in to the U.S. House in January 2025 after Rep. John Sarbanes chose not to seek reelection. Before Congress, Elfreth ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump Justice Department from seizing the medical records of transgender youth from New York City hospitals and cast doubt on the government’s claim that it didn’t want to use the information to prosecute patients.

In a lengthy oral decision announced at a remote...Read more

Texas activists are gathering in Washington on Wednesday to mark the four-year anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned.

More than 30 Texans are joining abortion rights advocates from around the country to protest the overturning of Roe v. Wade and to call for abortion access to be reinstated throughout the country.

On June 24, 2022, the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring major changes to the way Americans vote suffered another courtroom defeat, this time in a suit brought by Democratic state attorneys general who disputed the government’s claims of widespread voter fraud.

Chief U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston on Wednesday issued a...Read more

WASHINGTON — New Jersey Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver urged a federal appeals court Wednesday to throw out the three-count indictment against her, arguing her arrest outside a federal immigration detention center last year interfered with her legislative duties.

In challenging the charges, McIver has argued that Trump administration officials...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would not sign the landmark housing bill Congress passed this week as scheduled, in a striking decision to jeopardize a rare bipartisan success in order to demand that lawmakers pass voter ID legislation.

It escalated tension between Trump and Senate Republicans, which had already neared ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — An ad targeting a candidate for the U.S. House is prompting new questions about state limits on the use of generative artificial intelligence in political ads, with the Michigan Bureau of Elections maintaining the state law does not apply to federal races.

Cheree De Golia of Lansing filed a complaint Tuesday with the Bureau ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Hours before President Donald Trump was scheduled to sign ​comprehensive housing legislation into law from the Capitol on Wednesday, he abruptly canceled the event, saying he won’t sign it until Congress passes a separate election security measure.

“Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would not sign the landmark housing bill Congress passed this week, in a striking decision to jeopardize a rare bipartisan success and an escalation in his battle with Senate Republicans over his favored voter ID legislation.

Trump demanded on Truth Social that Congress pass the SAVE ...Read more

NEW YORK — Rep. Hakeem Jeffries bristled Wednesday at the possibility he could face a leftist primary challenge after Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s slate of three progressive allies swept to big wins in the New York City congressional races.

The normally courtly House minority leader snapped at a Capitol Hill reporter who asked if he might wind up...Read more

Each June, the nation turns its attention to the U.S. Supreme Court as it hands down some of its most consequential decisions.

Long before a landmark Supreme Court ruling dominates the headlines, it is shaped by a highly structured legal process, much of which takes place out of public view. This procedure involves strict gatekeeping ...Read more

Two House Democrats from New York City lost their reelection bids Tuesday to challengers backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a sign that the 34-year-old’s political capital remains high six months into his term.

In the 10th District, based in Lower Manhattan and western Brooklyn, Brad Lander was leading Rep. Dan Goldman with 62% to ...Read more

NEW YORK — After throwing himself into a high-risk test of his political power, Mayor Zohran Mamdani emerged from primary day triumphant as all three of the candidates he backed posted impressive victories in New York congressional primaries.

Claire Valdez resoundingly defeated Antonio Reynoso by a whopping 26 points in the 7th District. ...Read more