LOS ANGELES — A congressional subcommittee sent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass a letter this week asking her to testify at a Washington hearing focused on fraud and failure in the region’s homelessness system.

U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), chair of the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, said in his four-page letter that ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — House Republicans are scrapping the last two weeks the chamber was scheduled to be in session before the midterm elections.

Under the revised schedule announced Thursday, the House will return for votes the evening of Monday, Sept. 14, a week after Labor Day, for what is now expected to be only a one-week session before ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Thursday construction work would begin on President Donald Trump’s proposed memorial arch, as the administration proceeds with a project that has drawn backlash over its size and location.

“We are preparing to start, over the next two-week period, the excavation work necessary,” Burgum ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Some Republicans are slowly warming to the idea of raising payroll taxes on upper-income households to shore up Social Security.

Rep. Lloyd K. Smucker of Pennsylvania, a top candidate to lead House Budget Committee Republicans in the next Congress, said Thursday that raising the cap on income subject to Social Security payroll ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed to come to Alaska before the November election to help boost the candidacy of Republican U.S. Sen. Dan S. Sullivan.

The incumbent senator is in a closely watched race with former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, a Democrat. It's one of a few races across the country that could determine control of the Senate in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Elon Musk is back.

The richest man in the world, who was laser-focused on delivering Pennsylvania for President Donald Trump in 2024, is wielding his wallet in the Keystone State once again to support Republicans in three swing congressional districts ahead of the midterms.

America PAC, Musk’s super PAC, has contributed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let the Postal Service enforce new rules for mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterm elections, a move that some states have warned would wreak havoc as they prepare to send ballots to voters in the coming days.

The Justice Department filed an emergency request on ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A federal appeals court has paused a decision that would have prevented Idaho officials from enforcing the state’s abortion ban against a specific doctor when pregnancy threatened a woman’s health or put her at risk for death from self-harm.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ordered a stay of an injunction that U...Read more

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said he’s open to easing the ban on wearing sneakers in the Capitol’s ornate House Speaker’s Lobby if Democrats win control of the chamber in the midterm congressional elections.

Asked if he would give the green light to more casual footwear, the House Democratic leader suggested he is firmly in the pro-kicks camp.

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For much of the past 25 years, each anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks has arrived with signs and stickers reminding people to “never forget.”

I have always felt unsure about what those words mean. For those of us who were alive in 2001, forgetting the day itself is almost impossible.

I remember the shock and fear, the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. House candidate Michael Bouchard this week released his first video ad since winning the GOP primary in a suburban Detroit swing district a month earlier.

The ad, titled "Jump," features the former Army paratrooper leaping from a plane and making a direct-to-camera appeal that he will "lead the fight" against ...Read more

WASHINGTON — For Rep. Thomas Massie, time is running out in his latest effort to extract more files from the Justice Department related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

He’s leading a push to sidestep House leaders and bring another bill to the floor, dubbing it the Epstein Files Transparency Act II. It would allow state attorneys ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Authorities arrested a podcaster at his Los Angeles home Thursday morning for allegedly threatening to kill President Donald Trump and threatening the president's personal attorney.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli for the Central District of California said in a post on X that Benjamin Azariah Southworth, a 40-year-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Authorities arrested a podcaster at his Los Angeles-area home Thursday morning for allegedly threatening to kill the president of the United States.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli for the Central District of California said in a post on X, that Benjamin Azariah Southworth, 40, was indicted by a grand jury on federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Less than 24 hours before a key deadline for mail-in voting in the U.S. midterm elections, states are bracing for late-breaking developments in a legal battle over federal control of the process, including possible intervention from the Supreme Court.

A judge in Boston is weighing Thursday whether to extend a short-term order ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — House Republicans are scrapping the last two weeks the chamber was scheduled to be in session before the midterm elections.

Under the revised schedule announced Thursday, the House will return for votes the evening of Monday, Sept. 14, a week after Labor Day, for what is now expected to be only a one-week session before ...Read more

BOSTON — The Democratic primary between Sen. Ed Markey and Congressman Seth Moulton gained national attention as the two progressives battled over the summer months, so much so that President Donald Trump is chiming in on Markey’s landslide victory.

Trump praised Markey’s dominant performance on Tuesday, where he pulled in 64.8% of the ...Read more

Many Americans will pause on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to remember the nearly 3,000 people who were killed that day. The attacks became a shared national tragedy, the impact of which reached far beyond those who experienced them firsthand.

The aftermath of such a disaster can place enormous strain on a community. If ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For years, Hollywood has talked about a federal film and television tax credit that could help the industry combat the growing number of productions fleeing overseas.

This week, the entertainment business got a glimmer of hope.

After more than a year of quiet work from California lawmakers, industry lobbyists and Hollywood ...Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, of Washougal, and her Blue Dog coalition colleague, Rep. Jared Golden, of Maine, may face disciplinary action from House Democratic leadership after they unexpectedly helped Republicans pass a key procedural vote on Tuesday.

“The decision by two of our colleagues to blindside the entire House...Read more