WASHINGTON — A relentless push by President Donald Trump to reshape Washington‘s cityscape is facing mounting resistance, threatening a slate of transformative monuments intended to cement his legacy in the nation’s capital.

Eager to see his projects completed before leaving office, Trump has responded to growing legal and political ...Read more

CHICAGO — Five years after Illinois joined other states in allowing politicians to use campaign funds for childcare, a handful of state lawmakers from Chicago have become some of the nation’s biggest users of laws designed to encourage parents — particularly mothers of young children — to run for office, according to a nonprofit ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence makes passage of a bill renewing spy powers far harder, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee said.

Senator Mark Warner said on ABC’s This Week that Pulte’s appointment threw a “live grenade” into negotiations between ...Read more

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s party leads in the Armenia’s parliamentary election that would determine whether he gets mandate strong enough to reorient the country toward Europe even as tensions with Russia grow.

Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party is leading with about 55% of the vote with around 20% of ballots counted, according to ...Read more

Peruvians were on edge Sunday as exit polls offered little clarity on which candidate would win the bitterly contested runoff to become the country’s next president.

An exit poll by Ipsos showed conservative Keiko Fujimori with 50.7% of the vote while leftist Roberto Sánchez had 49.3%. Another poll by firm Datum projected Fujimori at 50.53%...Read more

France’s veteran leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon pitched himself on Sunday as the most viable candidate in next year’s presidential election to prevent a win by the far-right National Rally party.

Speaking at a campaign event in Saint-Denis, near Paris, Mélenchon said candidates who don’t stand a chance of making it to the runoff in the ...Read more

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito cannot participate in any cases involving the Treasury Department because his son Phil works as an attorney there. Justice Amy Coney Barrett has two adopted children from Haiti, so she should be disqualified from hearing an ongoing case involving Temporary Protected Status for Haitians. Chief Justice John ...Read more

DENVER — In her 16th campaign for Congress, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette is making a straightforward pitch: If Denver voters send her back to Washington, D.C., she’ll do more with her seat as a seasoned lawmaker than a newcomer can.

If Democrats regain control of the House this fall, DeGette could lead one of the most powerful subcommittees in ...Read more

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned of a major shakeup in two key eastern German state elections in September where the Alternative for Germany leads in the polls, urging the political center to work together to counter the far-right party.

“If we don’t do our job and if we’re not good enough, there will be a big bang in September,”...Read more

The U.S. House passed a Republican-backed fiscal 2027 agriculture funding bill this week that Rep. Andy Harris said would support farmers, rural communities and agricultural research, while cutting Biden-era climate and rural development initiatives.

Harris, a Maryland Republican who chairs the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The British Broadcasting Corp. issued a wave of subpoenas to dozens of members of President Donald Trump’s inner circle as part of its defense in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit, raising fresh questions about Trump’s speech before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

The BBC in recent weeks sent 47 subpoenas to members...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rep. Doris Matsui has secured her spot for the November general election, while main contender Mai Vang will likely have to wait for at least a few more days.

Sacramento County’s election update Friday afternoon solidified that the two Democrats appear headed toward a showdown in the general election. Matsui had 30.5% ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans early Friday could not muster enough votes to move forward on a long-term reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, leaving the key surveillance power, which expires next week, in limbo as both chambers leave the Capitol for the weekend.

The Senate voted 47-52 on the motion to...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Former state Sen. Richard Pan has retaken the second spot in California’s 6th District primary election and appears poised to face newly Independent Rep. Kevin Kiley in November.

Sacramento County’s election results update Friday afternoon catapulted Pan past Michael Stansfield, an unknown Republican candidate who had...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In a vaguely worded social media post, Central District of California Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said his agency was working with the FBI on “multiple election fraud investigations,” as federal officials followed President Donald Trump’s lead and raised doubts about California’s election integrity amid ...Read more

President Donald Trump expressed interest in the U.S. government holding equity stakes in leading artificial intelligence developers, saying that he planned to discuss the idea of a partnership with AI companies’ executives as soon as next week.

“There are concepts where pieces could be given to the American public, where the American ...Read more