Republican members of Congress blasted President Donald Trump’s decision to waive a tariff law passed last month to restrict Russian energy exports, arguing that the move will help Moscow wage its war on Ukraine.

The Trump administration has cast the waiver as a way to facilitate a deal with Russia on diesel exports — aimed at lowering ...Read more

Republican members of Congress blasted President Donald Trump’s decision to waive a tariff law passed last month to restrict Russian energy exports, arguing that the move will help Moscow wage its war on Ukraine.

The Trump administration has cast the waiver as a way to facilitate a deal with Russia on diesel exports — aimed at lowering ...Read more

Infighting gripping Donald Trump’s White House spilled into public view this week, with the abrupt exit of his hand-picked press secretary and the president forced to quash swirling questions about his chief of staff’s future.

The palace intrigue threatens to distract the White House at an already fraught moment, with just over two weeks ...Read more

In his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump made the cost of energy a centerpiece.

He blamed President Joe Biden’s environmental policies while vowing to slash gasoline prices to below $2 a gallon. That would herald an economic golden age of low fuel costs at home and U.S. “energy dominance” overseas, he said.

Fast forward to the ...Read more

The Trump administration’s deal to let Russia supply 3 million tons of diesel to the American and global markets is illegal, dangerous and harms U.S. national interests. It undermines our allies, rewards aggression and further cements the position of the United States under Donald Trump as squarely on the side of the bad guys. For all of this,...Read more

WASHINGTON — Few House lawmakers have risen through party leadership ranks as fast as GOP Conference Chair Lisa McClain. Now comes the toughest political challenge she’s faced in her short time in office: helping maintain Republicans’ tenuous grasp on the majority.

The third-term Michigan Republican, who took just four years to secure the...Read more

From Alaska to Florida, there once was an important job in government that most Americans rarely thought about: the secretary of state.

That changed after the 2020 presidential election, when secretaries of state in places such as Arizona, Georgia and Michigan were thrust into battles over election results, certification and false ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump waived massive tariffs linked to Russian energy exports mandated in a law that he signed last month, as the measures complicated his push to lower diesel prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.

Trump invoked a waiver clause under the law, which was championed by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham as a way to ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Tempers flared Thursday as the leading candidates for Alaska’s hotly contested U.S. Senate seat clashed over the Iran war, the economy and healthcare.

Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan and Democratic challenger Mary Peltola repeatedly accused each other of lying in an hourlong debate, and their bickering at one point ...Read more

President Donald Trump touted his economic policies as bringing a manufacturing boom to Georgia as he sought to rally voters in a state hosting a crucial U.S. Senate race in November’s midterm election.

Trump hailed investment pledges from companies including pharmaceutical company UCB SA, tire manufacturer Pirelli & C. Spa and Hyundai Motor ...Read more

DETROIT — President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Michigan's St. Clair County roughly 10 days out from the Nov. 3 election.

The event, the exact location of which is not yet clear, will take place the afternoon of Sunday, Oct. 25, according to information from the Trump 47 Committee. The Detroit News reported earlier this week that Trump ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republican Michele Tafoya sought to establish her independence from President Donald Trump, while Democratic Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan faced questions about party loyalty and her responsibility for Minnesota’s fraud crisis during their first and only scheduled U.S. Senate debate Friday.

The debate came just days after Trump ...Read more

A judge threatened to sanction President Donald Trump for failing to sit for a mandatory deposition in the $10 billion defamation suit he filed against the British Broadcasting Corp.

“The court has admonished plaintiff for his lack of participation to no avail,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjolique A. Lett said in a brief order in Miami. “...Read more

DENVER — U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse has gotten used to playing defense.

During the first half of Donald Trump’s second presidency, the Democratic congressman from Lafayette has spearheaded efforts to prevent the administration from selling off public lands, closing scientific research centers in Boulder, and blocking oversight of immigration ...Read more

PINECREST, Fla. — With early voting set to begin Monday in Miami-Dade, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries joined former CBS News Miami anchor Eliott Rodriguez Friday on the campaign trail for Florida’s 27th Congressional District, signaling Democrats think they have a shot at flipping the seat blue as they seek to regain the House.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump bypassed his White House chief of staff last week in selecting Katie Zacharia as his press secretary and chief messenger, triggering days of scathing headlines about her credentials and abilities before her ignominious resignation on Friday.

Susie Wiles, that senior-most aide ostensibly in charge of the ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s slated appearance near Wichita, Kansas, on Monday to rally support for Republican Sen. Roger Marshall’s reelection bid has stirred up both anger and excitement among hundreds of Kansans who are talking about the presidential visit online.

In that raucous public square known as Reddit, anti-Trumpers are planning ...Read more

MIAMI — President Donald Trump is holding a midterm election rally next Friday during early voting in Fort Myers, a part of the congressional district currently represented by Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds.

The Oct. 23 rally is in one of Florida’s reddest areas where Donalds is already a known political figure, and where ...Read more

NEW YORK — Presumptive Rep. Darializa Avila Chevalier has a point to prove when she gets to Washington: Progressives can “actually deliver” for their constituents.

The all-but-certain future congresswoman from upper Manhattan struck a surprisingly pragmatic tone in a new interview, throwing cold water on any effort to impeach President ...Read more

DETROIT — Democratic nominee for governor Jocelyn Benson vowed not to pursue a broad increase in taxes on the middle class after a Thursday debate in Detroit, where her opponent, Republican John James, accused her of using code words to disguise plans for a tax hike.

The televised back-and-forth highlighted the occasionally heated second ...Read more