MIAMI — As he sits in a federal prison awaiting sentencing on criminal charges related to his lobbying work for an American subsidiary of Venezuela’s oil company, David Rivera’s prominent friends are sticking by him publicly and financially.

Alina Garcia, Miami-Dade’s elected supervisor of elections, offered to put up her home as ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — More House seats could flip in Florida this election season after a Republican-led redistricting effort upended the congressional map.

Florida is now home to three of the most competitive U.S. House races in the country, according to Cook Political Report, a ratings service. Republicans redrew three previously blue districts to ...Read more

MIAMI — Almost all of Florida’s elected Democratic National Committee members are condemning Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s decision to run for reelection in a district previously drawn to ensure Black voters’ representation but targeted for redistricting by Gov. Ron DeSantis this year.

“Our party cannot credibly denounce ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said his physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center went “PERFECTLY,” but provided no details on the results of his examination.

Trump’s Tuesday visit to Walter Reed marked his fourth publicly disclosed medical appointment since the start of his second term. It is also Trump’s third ...Read more

N.J. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. has broken his mysterious silence amid a nearly three month-long absence over an unexplained “medical” issue.

The embattled Republican scion of one of the Garden State’s most famed political families called some fellow GOP officials over the holiday weekend to reassure them that he’s still running for reelection ...Read more

In Colorado, a national debate about the role of Latinos in American society has deep roots in the state’s history, current identity — and future.

I’m a professor of ethnic studies at Colorado State University. I recently published a book titled “Latino Colorado: The Struggle for Equality in the Centennial State.” In it, I ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s shake-up of the United States’ public health apparatus in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has public health experts concerned about the country’s ability to respond to emerging disease outbreaks like hantavirus and Ebola.

Whether that’s a concern for Congress, however, often depends on the ...Read more

President Donald Trump has signed an emergency declaration for the Garden Grove toxic tank emergency — allowing local authorities to receive federal disaster assistance as Orange County fire officials work to contain the crisis.

The move came after the Orange County Fire Authority announced early Monday that the risk of a major explosion had ...Read more

After losing his bid for reelection last week, U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie said his “biggest crime” was showing that bipartisan work can be done in modern American politics.

In a moment of reflection on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday morning, the seven-term Republican said he thought he lost the GOP primary Tuesday because he voted “...Read more

Assemblywoman Claire Valdez and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso are vying for the progressive mantle as they battle in a Democratic primary for the heavily Latino NY-07 district that snakes through fast-changing neighborhoods in northern Brooklyn and western Queens.

Valdez, a first-term lawmaker, has Mayor Zohran Mamdani in her ...Read more

Voters will decide in November whether to overturn the abortion rights that were enshrined in the Missouri Constitution just two years ago.

On Friday, Gov. Mike Kehoe announced that he is moving four ballot measures to the August primary rather than the General Election in November.

The statement didn’t note that Amendment 3, the proposed ...Read more

Progressive Brad Lander is aiming to unseat two-term incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman in a contentious Democratic primary for the NY-10 district spanning lower Manhattan and a chunk of brownstone Brooklyn.

The ex-city comptroller and mayoral candidate is betting his durable popularity in the more-populous Brooklyn portion of the district, and his ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Assembly member Jasmeet Bains and her political allies have escalated attacks against opponent Randy Villegas with aggressive messaging that accuses him of concealing decades-old sexual abuse claims and invokes comparisons to Jeffrey Epstein.

The attacks come as Bains and Villegas are locked in a bitter primary...Read more

U.S. lawmakers voted Thursday to advance a proposal to stay on daylight saving time for states nationwide.

The Sunshine Protection Act passed out of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, and would make daylight saving time permanent for every state, although states would be able to opt out and stay on standard time. President Donald ...Read more

RIO DE JANEIRO — President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is leading Brazil’s presidential election as Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro suffers from his ties to the man at the center of a massive banking scandal, a new poll showed.

Lula leads Bolsonaro by 4 percentage points, 47% to 43%, in a hypothetical runoff election, according to a Datafolha survey ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump put his midterm coattails to the test Friday by trekking into a New York House district won by Kamala Harris in the last presidential election.

“It’s this radical turnaround, and we better do it fast, because we’re not going to have a New York left, and we got to have New York left,” Trump said to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — For much of President Donald Trump’s second term, Republican senators have largely stayed in line, wary of the consequences of defying a president with a history of targeting those who cross him. This week, that dynamic noticeably shifted.

Senate Republicans blocked two of Trump’s legislative priorities, angered by the push ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Former President Joe Biden will keynote the Maryland Democratic Party’s 2026 Fight Back & Win Gala, the party announced Friday.

“It’s going to be a special night, and I’m honored to spend it with the folks who are fighting to move Maryland — and this country — forward,” Biden said in a statement.

The June 27 event ...Read more