Rep. James Comer and former President Bill Clinton are locked in an intense war of words after Clinton defied a congressional subpoena and accused the Kentucky lawmaker of playing partisan politics in his House Oversight Committee investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Because the Clintons did not appear for subpoenaed ...Read more

Bill and Hillary Clinton seem to be gearing up for a potentially contentious legal battle with Kentucky Rep. James Comer.

The 42nd president and his wife, herself a former secretary of state, defied the GOP lawmaker’s efforts to depose them in his investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Clintons declined to show up for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Neal Dunn announced Tuesday that he would not seek a sixth term this year, opening up a red-leaning North Florida seat based in Tallahassee.

Dunn, a urologist and former Army surgeon, is the eighth House Republican to announce retirement plans in 2026, while 18 others are departing to seek other offices.

“The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority sounded ready to uphold bans on transgender girls competing in girls’ sports, during oral arguments Tuesday in challenges to state laws in Idaho and West Virginia.

Across more than three hours of arguments in the two cases, the justices probed arguments from the states, the Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Kevin Kiley’s congressional district has been sliced into six pieces, and he’s ruled out running in one of them, the district now represented by Rep. Mike Thompson.

Thompson is a veteran Democrat from St. Helena and senior member of the powerful tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.

Kiley said Monday night in a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate passed bipartisan legislation Tuesday that would allow individuals to sue over nonconsensual intimate depictions of them that were generated by artificial intelligence.

The bill’s passage comes in the wake of intense criticism of Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, for allowing the Grok AI chatbot to generate ...Read more

DETROIT — President Donald Trump contended his policies had already spurred what he described as a "Trump economic boom" during a speech Tuesday in Michigan's largest city, as concerns about rising prices and tariffs loom over the midterm election year.

Trump's address before the Detroit Economic Club featured him claiming that affordability ...Read more

Current high prices for groceries, housing and other goods are largely not the fault of President Donald Trump. That blame still rests with the inflationary policies of former President Joe Biden, whose tenure brought a 21.5% rise in consumer prices.

Most of the Democrats who are now castigating Trump and Republicans for the continued stress ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices sounded ready Tuesday to uphold state laws that forbid transgender athletes from competing on school sports teams for girls.

Idaho, West Virginia and 25 other Republican-led states say a student's biological sex at birth should determine who can play on the girls' or boys' teams.

They say it is unfair ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Chairman James R. Comer said Tuesday the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee would take up a contempt of Congress measure against Bill Clinton next week, after the former president did not show up for a deposition tied to the panel’s investigation of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Committee approval of a ...Read more

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case that seeks to overturn state bans on transgender women competing in high school and college sports, with some conservative judges hinting they may side with the red states.

The conservative justices, who have been mostly skeptical of trans rights, will decide whether bans on trans women ...Read more

DETROIT — President Donald Trump arrived Tuesday in Michigan, where he is expected to promote his approach to the nation's economy and jump-start the midterm election year in the battleground state.

After Air Force One landed at Detroit Metro Airport at about 11:45 a.m., Trump is expected to visit Ford Motor Co.'s Dearborn Truck Plant before ...Read more

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case that seeks to overturn state bans on transgender women competing in high school and college sports.

The conservative justices, who have been mostly skeptical of trans rights, will decide whether bans on trans women in team sports violate the Constitution or the landmark federal law known ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California state Sen. Mike McGuire, a Santa Rosa Democrat, is a die-hard San Francisco 49ers fan.

During his first speech as Senate president pro tempore in early 2024, McGuire gave a shout-out to his beloved team, who were days away from facing the Kansas City Chiefs at the Super Bowl.

His late grandmother “would be ...Read more

With only four months before nominating conventions, Republican candidate for governor Ryan Fazio said Monday that he has passed the threshold needed to qualify for public financing.

Fazio said he has raised $272,000 so far, including $114,000 in the just-completed quarter and $157,000 in the previous quarter. His contributions must be ...Read more

Meta Platforms Inc. has appointed a former top adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump to a newly created senior management role focused on partnering with governments and investors on AI.

Dina Powell McCormick, a former Goldman Sachs executive, is joining the company this week as president and vice chairman. She’s part of a new team of ...Read more

Moderna Inc.’s chairman says the Trump administration’s vaccine policy changes are part of a broader attack on science that may have only just begun.

“Today it may be childhood vaccines or mRNA, but tomorrow it’s everything,” Noubar Afeyan said in an interview Monday on the sidelines of the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference in San ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Twelve House Democrats who last year sued the Trump administration over a policy limiting congressional oversight of immigrant detention facilities returned to federal court Monday to challenge a second, new policy imposing further limits on such unannounced visits.

In December, those members of Congress won their lawsuit ...Read more