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

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Republican lawmaker is urging Gov. Mike Dunleavy not to veto a bill updating Alaska’s voting and election laws.

Dunleavy has until the end of the month to decide whether to sign or veto Senate Bill 64, which would create a ballot curing process that allows voters to fix minor mistakes on their ballots; allow the ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted the Trump administration on Monday over its decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding — widely considered the legal foundation for much of U.S. climate policy regulating greenhouse gas emissions for nearly 20 years — asserting that the move will worsen climate-driven extremes.

The criticism came two ...Read more

Two Republicans are hoping to unseat an incumbent Democrat in a Central Valley swing district that could determine control of the House.

U.S. Rep. Adam Gray faces entrepreneur Vinay Kruttiventi and former Stockton Mayor Kevin Lincoln in California’s 13th Congressional District. Gray flipped the seat in 2024 by just 187 votes, and it remains ...Read more

By Nina Heller

Posted April 20, 2026 at 5:43pm

WASHINGTON — Ethics violations will take center stage in the House for the second week in a row, as a push to expel Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick comes to a head.

Only six lawmakers have ever been expelled from the House, and prior to the expulsion of former Rep. George Santos in December ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans plan to release their budget resolution and take a procedural vote as early as Tuesday, kicking off the cumbersome process for a reconciliation bill designed to help end the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Monday he hopes to confine the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is reviving its effort to secure billions of dollars in State Department funding in a wide-ranging account with few guardrails that was met with resistance from Democrats last year, who accused the administration of setting up a foreign policy slush fund.

This week, appropriators will give an initial ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congress faces a 10-day scramble before the statutory expiration of a powerful surveillance authority next week, after a collapse on the House floor laid bare the opposition to renewing the tool without new privacy safeguards.

The early-morning votes Friday, a piercing setback for the Trump administration and House leadership, ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A clerk in northern Michigan says she's been conducting a "corrective audit" of the list of registered voters in her county, after the state Bureau of Elections questioned whether her actions have violated state law.

In a statement provided to The Detroit News on Monday, Antrim County Clerk Victoria Bishop argued that her ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to provide federal funds for a wide range of energy projects, as his administration faces pressure to help curb rising oil and gas costs.

Trump on Monday signed five presidential determinations under the law, according to a White House official on condition of anonymity to...Read more

Rep. Ilhan Omar has amended her financial disclosure forms to show she does not have as much money as previously suggested in recent congressional filings.

The financial disclosure form in question had stated that the value of the companies her husband, Tim Mynett, co-owned was worth anywhere between $6 million to $30 million, representing a ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Monday shot down his own energy secretary’s prediction of stubbornly high gas prices through the end of the year.

Even thought the Iran war has sent prices at the pump way up, Trump said Energy Secretary Chris Wright was incorrect to say gas prices would not go back to $3 a gallon until 2027 at the earliest.

“No, ...Read more

Last week, two members of the U.S. House of Representatives resigned on the same day.

Gone were Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican accused of having a coercive sexual relationship with an aide who later killed herself, and Eric Swalwell, whose bid for the Democratic nomination for California governor was derailed after accusations of sexual ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania’s ban on public funding for abortion is unconstitutional, a divided Commonwealth Court ruled Monday.

In reaching that conclusion, the statewide court that oversees government-related matters recognized “a fundamental right to reproductive autonomy” in the Pennsylvania Constitution.

The finding likely sets up...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Tuesday in a case that could shrink Congress’ power to let agencies internally decide legal and regulatory violations, as two telecommunications giants challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s power to impose forfeitures.

AT&T and Verizon have contested determinations ...Read more

For the past 13 years, Maricopa County in Arizona has attempted to reform its sheriff’s department after Joe Arpaio made it into a national flash point for extreme immigration tactics. After a legal immigrant sued Arpaio and the county Sheriff’s Office, a federal district court ruled in 2015 that Arpaio and his deputies relied on racial ...Read more

On a spring morning in 1914, miners in Ludlow, Colorado, were celebrating Greek Easter when the Colorado National Guard and a private security agency opened fire on their camp with a machine-gun-equipped armored car called the Death Special.

The miners waged a pitched battle with the National Guard for 10 days before President Woodrow...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate faces an expected budget vote-a-rama this week as Republicans seek to start the process of funding immigration enforcement without the support of Democrats.

A resolution from Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is expected to provide instructions for roughly $70 billion for Immigration and Customs ...Read more