TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to see a debate among the Republican candidates vying to replace him.

But the race’s front-runner, U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, has already refused to do so. On Thursday, a campaign spokesperson said it wasn’t Donalds’ job to “legitimize campaigns that have failed to gain meaningful support.” ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Planned Parenthood affiliate is challenging Alaska’s ban on providing medication abortion via telehealth.

Alaska’s state constitution has been interpreted to provide sweeping protections for abortion access under its privacy clause. But a longstanding Alaska statute has been interpreted by the administration of Gov. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick’s fiercest reelection battle in years got underway in the last two months, the moderate Bucks County Republican has called to restrict President Donald Trump’s war in Iran and for prohibiting a so-called “anti-weaponization fund” that could reward the president’s allies.

He’s talked up ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Armed Services Committee Republicans, in a reversal, voted this week to oppose an NDAA provision that would broaden health care coverage for military families’ fertility treatments, a Democratic senator said Thursday.

“After everything our troops sacrifice for our nation, they should never have to sacrifice their ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A bill that would stop large online platforms from discriminating against outside services has been revived in the Senate after versions in recent years died amid strong opposition from the technology industry.

Judiciary Chair Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., introduced the legislation on Wednesday in...Read more

In northern Oregon, just before dawn in October 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested and shackled two farmworkers on their way to work. The man and woman were Guatemalan citizens who spoke no English and very little Spanish. They spoke Mam, an Indigenous Mayan language.

Despite the man trying to tell an ICE ...Read more

Congress went about its business Tuesday, seemingly oblivious to the massive time bomb ticking in the corner. Will reality set in before the explosion? Voters must demand explanations.

This week, the Social Security Administration issued its annual trustees report on the fiscal state of the program. The news isn’t good. The Social Security ...Read more

ST. GEORGE, Utah — Residents from a state starving for water have become the face of local struggles against Big Tech, locked in protests against a proposed data center that at one point was set to sprawl thousands of acres larger than its infamous Bryce Canyon.

Some are looking for federal guardrails to protect against encroachment on ...Read more

Despite the growing popularity of electric vehicles, such technology continues to receive only scorn and derision from the White House and its acolytes in Congress.

The latest example can be found in a newly unveiled transportation bill that earned a stamp of approval from Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Bellingham, ranking member of the House ...Read more

WASHINGTON — When it comes to congressional earmarks, the big dogs usually eat first.

So it’s no surprise that House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., leads the pack on “community project funding” included in his panel’s fiscal 2027 spending bills, with $188.4 million.

The No. 2 House Republican, Majority Leader Steve ...Read more

In President Donald Trump’s warped worldview, all elections — not just his own — are either won or rigged. Democracy and the will of the people are irrelevant. Trump alone decides who the victor is, otherwise the election was stolen.

The newest exhibit is the fair and square defeat of Los Angeles mayoral contender Spencer Pratt, a self-...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The U.S. political class judges candidates too harshly for past bad behavior, discouraging people from running for office, Hunter Biden said in a forthcoming episode of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast, “This Is Gavin Newsom.”

In a four-minute clip obtained by The Sacramento Bee, Biden referred to reports that one of ...Read more

CHICAGO — Hillary Clinton used an audience at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s annual convention to lash out at the Trump administration Thursday, saying Democrats must combat a “revolution to turn the clock back,” a revolution that she said is eroding the building blocks of civil and voting rights established decades ago.

Clinton, a former...Read more

MIAMI — A half-dozen prominent academic and political figures filed into Miami federal court on Thursday to pledge the value of their homes to help secure a proposed $7 million bond for their friend, former Congressman David Rivera, in a bid to free him from jail.

But a judge, who detained Rivera in early May after he was found guilty of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened a federal government takeover of Washington, DC, if self-described democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George wins the city’s Democratic mayoral primary.

“I wouldn’t like it, and maybe we take back Washington, run it on the federal basis,” Trump told reporters at the White House on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House did not pass a short-term extension of a powerful surveillance tool Thursday morning as members headed out of town for a recess, all but ensuring the spy power’s statutory authority would lapse going into the weekend.

The vote to reject a reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act now ...Read more

NEW YORK — Like legions of young adults before her, Claire Valdez moved to New York in 2015 looking for a better life and a creative outlet for her budding career as a visual artist.

Valdez quickly realized she had to find an apartment, get a job and pay the rent (and hopefully change the world, too).

A decade later, the 36-year-old single ...Read more

Contrary to any of the polite things Kimberly Guilfoyle has said about Donald Trump Jr. leaving her for Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson, America’s ambassador to Greece was privately “seething,” according to a new report, and reached out to Anderson’s billionaire ex-fiancé to work together to break up the new couple.

That’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso boasts of living just a stone’s throw away from where he was born and raised in south Williamsburg.

Four decades later, Reynoso points to a potent track record of activism and progressive political victories like few others, forged from countless meetings in public housing projects, ...Read more