WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday limited a federal law that prohibits illegal drug users from possessing firearms, in a case involving a man who was charged after investigators found a gun in his home and he admitted using marijuana about every other day.

In a unanimous decision, the justices found that the prosecution of Ali Danial...Read more

NEW YORK — Congressional candidate Jack Schlossberg said his estranged cousin, MAGA surrogate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., came to him in a dream with words of encouragement.

“He was saying ‘good job, you’re going to win,'” Schlossberg claimed in a new Politico interview.

Schlossberg, 33, was pointedly critical of his first cousin once ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Thursday for gun rights and against drug laws.

In a 9-0 ruling, the justices struck down part of the longstanding federal gun control law that makes it a crime for an "unlawful user" of illegal drugs to possess a gun.

The Trump administration had urged the court to uphold the conviction of a Texas...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Brushing aside criticism that she shouldn’t even be running for reelection in a new Broward County district, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz sought to portray herself Wednesday night as the best choice for voters wanting experience and clout to deliver — and the guts to stand up to President Donald Trump and MAGA...Read more

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood silent and stone-faced behind Donald Trump on Wednesday as the president joked of passing the buck if his deal with Iran, under increasingly withering criticism and scrutiny, ultimately falls apart.

The blame, Trump said, would likely fall on his vice president, JD Vance, who led the ...Read more

Every election cycle sees its share of controversial, scandal-plagued candidates running for office. But the 2026 midterm elections will feature two such candidates – one from each party – in two of the highest-profile U.S. Senate races.

In Texas, the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, recently secured the Republican Party’...Read more

WASHINGTON — Next week’s primaries in New York will test Zohran Mamdani’s political power six months into his mayoral term and set up what’s likely to be one of the fall’s most competitive House races in the Hudson Valley.

Mamdani has endorsed a trio of Democratic candidates running for House seats across New York City, including two ...Read more

WASHINGTON —With control of the House on the line, a redrawn district in Utah has presented Democrats with a rare opportunity to pick up a seat.

Next week’s Democratic primary in the blue-leaning 1st District has become a proving ground for the party’s progressive wing, represented by state Sen. Nate Blouin, tax attorney Michael Farrell ...Read more

There is a powerful force that affects politics as much as it affects individual lives. It is fatigue.

We just get darn tired of something, be it a job, a relationship, a hobby or a routine. We have been devoted to it for years, and suddenly we want out; we want to do something else. What we loved doing has become boring and tedious. More work ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his team had several red lines that they used to justify the U.S. war against Iran. At a news conference Wednesday, Trump largely brushed them aside.

Explaining his decision to agree to an interim peace deal, Trump repeated his insistence that the country would never get a nuclear weapon. Yet he went on...Read more

A Raleigh man who allegedly posted Facebook videos threatening to kill President Donald Trump was arrested and charged by federal officials Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced Wednesday.

Christopher Key-Torrion Carnes, 33, was charged with communicating threats against the president of the ...Read more

Rep. Kevin Kiley now says former President Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election — a position he had repeatedly refused to state publicly in years past.

Kiley, who left the Republican Party to become an independent in March, provided the statement earlier this month while on a NewsNation segment about California’s slow primary vote ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Three weeks after members of Congress listened to and then publicly shared concerns from inside of Pennsylvania’s largest immigrant detention center for the first time, U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean said she was blocked from speaking with detainees while visiting the same facility on Wednesday.

Dean, D-Pa., said she was given “a...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — During Tuesday’s GOP debate Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and Attorney General Alan Wilson didn’t hold back any animus that built up over the last week since they advanced to a runoff election for the Republican nomination of governor.

Evette and Wilson sparred in their final televised debate appearance before two days of early ...Read more

Nearly six months after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump is increasingly portraying the operation as one of the defining victories of his foreign policy, arguing it transformed Venezuela from a hostile adversary into a strategic partner.

Speaking to reporters during the G7 summit in France, Trump pointed to the U.S.-backed...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congress is hopeful that the popularity of U.S. national parks and other public lands can translate into bipartisan support for a deferred maintenance fund whose reauthorization expired last year.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday approved a bill to reauthorize a fund providing $1.9 billion annually ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Another month, and another batch of rating changes that benefit Democrats.

But the House Republican majority is not lost yet, according to a district-by-district analysis of the House battleground.

With less than five months to go, the fundamentals of midterm elections continue to favor Democrats.

President Donald Trump’s job...Read more

Throughout history, rulers and political movements have used public spectacles of combat to evoke courage, sacrifice, collective strength and national purpose. From Roman gladiator contests to modern mixed martial arts, combat spectacles have served not merely as entertainment but as public rituals through which people experience belonging to...Read more

WASHINGTON — A pair of Republicans endorsed by Donald Trump won their Senate primary runoffs Tuesday, but the president suffered a setback in a Republican gubernatorial contest for the second time this month.

In Georgia, Rep. Mike Collins claimed the GOP Senate nomination, two days after picking up Trump’s support, while the president’s ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A TV ad released Wednesday by a group that wants U.S. Rep. John James to be Michigan's next governor touted the Republican congressman's backing of President Donald Trump.

The commercial from Mission Michigan came about seven weeks before the Aug. 4 primary election. According to the organization, it will spend more than $1 ...Read more