WASHINGTON — A former staff member for Rep. Troy Nehls will get no settlement money in the dismissal of his lawsuit that alleged he was pressured out of his job because he was gay, according to the congressman’s office.

Alex Chadwell, who worked for Nehls’ offices in Washington and Texas, filed a lawsuit in 2024 contending he faced a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A majority of the Supreme Court appeared ready during oral arguments Tuesday to clear the way for a policy seeking to prevent immigrants from presenting asylum claims at the U.S. border with Mexico.

The Trump administration asked the justices to overturn a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit that blocked the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The University of Southern California canceled its Tuesday evening gubernatorial debate after facing fiery criticism about excluding every gubernatorial candidate of color.

Although the university defended the methodology used to determine who was invited to participate in the forum, it canceled the debate less than 24 hours ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — No Kings, the recurring nationwide protests against the policies of President Donald Trump, is back for 2026.

Over 3,000 No Kings rallies are scheduled for Saturday, and will focus on Trump, his policies, escalations of immigration enforcement tactics in Minnesota, and ICE’s increased presence nationwide.

It marks the third ...Read more

Three weeks into the U.S. war with Iran, it seems increasingly evident that President Donald Trump and his administration miscalculated how Iran would respond to attacks.

Besides appearing unprepared by the escalation of war, the president has offered contradictory statements on the U.S. rationale for bombing Iran, including that ...Read more

With the war in Iran a topic on everyone’s lips, you might have noticed an inconsistency in the way that nation’s name is said, varying between a more native-like “Ih-ron” pronunciation and a more Americanized “Ih-ran” one.

An everyday listener might just chalk this up as being the result of regional differences or the ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Bruce Springsteen apparently can’t get enough of the Twin Cities.

Before he kicks off his Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour on Tuesday, March 31, at Target Center in Minneapolis, he’ll give another performance at the No Kings rally on Saturday at the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul.

“You want to try to meet the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department will no longer allow media organizations to keep offices in the Pentagon building after a federal judge ruled that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had improperly revoked credentials for dozens of them.

The Pentagon will close what’s known as the Correspondents’ Corridor after deciding that access to the ...Read more

President Trump on Monday rejected a bipartisan deal that could end the partial government shutdown and ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to patrol some airport security checkpoints as air travel delays kept getting worse.

As ICE agents headed to 14 airports in the New York area and nationwide, Trump refused a proposed deal ...Read more

Only six of the ten leading candidates for California governor will take the stage Tuesday night for the next televised debate, prompting backlash from the excluded candidates — all of whom are major former officeholders — who are accusing organizers of using biased criteria that let in San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan despite similar polling ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers face a final sprint this week before a mini spring break recess — that is, if leadership lets them leave.

With new urgency to fund the Department of Homeland Security, the focus will be on off-the-floor negotiations to end the partial government shutdown.

And President Donald Trump is further complicating a deal to ...Read more

MIAMI — Federal prosecutors on Monday portrayed former Miami-Dade Congressman David Rivera and political consultant Esther Nuhfer as “secret” foreign agents for Venezuela who were driven by “greed” when Rivera’s company signed a $50 million lobbying contract to “normalize” relations with then-President Nicolás Maduro.

Rivera, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared ready during oral arguments Monday to restrict state laws allowing the counting of late-arriving ballots, in a challenge to Mississippi’s state law on absentee ballots.

Mississippi allows state officials to count mail ballots that were postmarked on or before Election Day but arrive up to five ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Kermit Gosnell, the infamous West Philadelphia abortion doctor who was sentenced to life in prison on murder and manslaughter convictions in 2013, has died.

Gosnell, 85, died earlier this month at a hospital, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections said. He was most recently being held at State Correctional Institution ...Read more

NEW YORK — Brad Lander and Rep. Dan Goldman traded barbs on Monday over their campaigns’ conflicting proposals to limit the impact of big-money spending by outside political special interest groups in their fierce Democratic campaign in the NY-10 House district.

Lander started the squabble by calling on Goldman to sign what he called a “...Read more

President Donald Trump Monday invoked the name of Jesus Christ in a call for lawmakers to scrap their Easter break and stay in Washington, D.C. to try to pass his package of new voting restrictions.

Speaking at a public safety roundtable in Memphis, Trump said the Republican-led Senate should only focus on passing his SAVE Act and shouldn’t ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Californians may be forced to put their ballots in the mail well before Election Day to be certain they will be counted.

That’s the likely outcome of a Republican challenge to mail-in ballots that came before the Supreme Court on Monday.

The court’s six conservatives sounded ready to rule that federal law requires that ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — For the first time since Kentucky’s unified court system was implemented in 1976, the state House of Representatives impeached a sitting judge.

The Kentucky House of Representatives on Friday voted overwhelmingly to send five articles of impeachment against Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Goodman to the Senate for a potential ...Read more

Multiple women told The New York Times that Mexican American civil rights hero Cesar Chavez assaulted them decades ago, including when some were just girls, one as young as 13. Over their multiyear investigation, published on March 18, 2026, journalists at the paper found “extensive evidence” of that abuse by poring over historical ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has filed more than 60 lawsuits against the federal government since Donald Trump began his second term last January — roughly one a week. The state has also signed on to another 60 legal complaints as a friend of the court. But what are all these lawsuits about?

Here is a breakdown. Some of the lawsuits ...Read more