Central Jersey Democrats have chosen a nominee to take on a Republican incumbent who hasn’t been seen in the district or on Capitol Hill for months among other congressional primary contests Tuesday.

Democrats and Republicans set their nominees who will help determine control of Congress midway through President Donald Trump’s second term ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Buoyed by a new congressional map favoring their party, California Democrats were eyeing Tuesday’s primary elections as a critical first step toward flipping a handful of House seats and taking back power in Washington.

Results from California’s massive and slow-moving election process were not immediately clear late Tuesday...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States is proposing tariffs of at least 10% on imports from most major trading partners following an investigation into forced-labor practices, as President Donald Trump seeks to rebuild the sweeping tariff wall struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The 10% rate would apply to imports from Canada, Mexico, the European...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Incumbent Democrat Derek Tran is advancing to the general election in a battle to keep his seat representing a swath of north Orange County and Los Angeles County.

The Associated Press called the outcome shortly after polls closed on Tuesday night.

Tran was a political newcomer when he captured the seat by a little more than ...Read more

MIAMI — Four of the Black candidates running in the Democratic primary for Florida’s 20th congressional district met in a closed-door meeting Monday to discuss coalescing behind one candidate in the hopes of beating U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Those present at the meeting, confirmed by three people, walked away with the clear focus ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It’s been nearly three months since he last cast a vote on the House floor, but Rep. Thomas H. Kean Jr. has been keeping busy — or at least trying to look like he is.

In the New Jersey Republican’s absence, five speeches under his name have appeared in the Congressional Record.

Staff in congressional offices continue to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As federal investigators descend on Longview, Washington, to make sense of the catastrophic implosion at a pulp and paper mill, Congress is weighing a proposal to cut the investigating agency's budget by more than 40%.

The May 26 disaster at Nippon Dynawave Packaging killed 11, tainted the Columbia River and rocked the tight-knit...Read more

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, under intense grilling at a Senate hearing Tuesday, refused to commit to abiding by federal court orders.

Mullin also conceded that his predecessor as secretary, Kristi Noem, had inaccurately described two shootings involving immigration officers in Minneapolis.

His refusal to ...Read more

The White House announced it will reduce tariffs on imported farm and construction equipment such as harvesters and forklifts, an effort to boost the industrial economy and provide relief for American farmers.

Under a proclamation issued late Monday, those duties would drop to 15% from 25%. Foreign companies could qualify for a lower 10% levy ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It’s been nearly three months since he last cast a vote on the House floor, but Rep. Thomas H. Kean Jr. has been keeping busy — or at least trying to look like he is.

In the New Jersey Republican’s absence, five speeches under his name have appeared in the Congressional Record.

Staff in congressional offices continue to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez of Los Angeles is reportedly under investigation by the House Ethics Committee over sexual misconduct allegations.

The investigation came after the New York Post reported in April that the 51-year-old five-term congressman had been spotted kissing a much younger congressional staffer from a different ...Read more

New Jersey Rep. Thomas Kean Jr., R-N.J., hasn’t been seen publicly for nearly three months and has missed more than 100 House votes.

That didn't prevent him from receiving an endorsement from Donald Trump, who claimed Kean Jr. has been "working tirelessly" to promote the president's agenda.

"Tom Kean has my Complete and Total Endorsement for...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told congressional lawmakers Tuesday that Venezuela no longer poses the same national-security threat to the United States that it did under Nicolás Maduro, pointing to what he described as significant reforms undertaken over the past five months by the country’s interim authorities.

But Rubio cautioned that ...Read more

NEW YORK — Brad Lander and Rep. Dan Goldman faced off in the first debate in their contentious Democratic primary in the NY-10 district.

The rivals traded barbs over Israel, immigration and even the Park Slope Food Coop in the hourlong televised showdown that was tense but short on real fireworks and didn’t produce any apparent knockout ...Read more

Since 2016, when Donald Trump shattered the Democrats’ blue wall by winning working-class voters across the Midwest, a cottage industry has sprung up on the left dedicated to answering a single question: How can Democrats win back the working class?

The answers come in different forms. Sometimes it is veteran Vermont Sen. Bernie ...Read more

George Washington knew his forces could not win the American Revolutionary War without some measure of sea power. “It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day,” he later wrote in a letter, “that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it everything honorable and glorious.”

The ...Read more

During a Washington Nationals baseball game on May 17, 2026, three people unfurled a large banner from the upper deck of Nationals Park displaying a link to a white nationalist website.

The website, warning of the replacement of whites by people of color, called for the deportation of 100 million people from the United States.

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WASHINGTON — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday outlined states’ obligations to implement upcoming Medicaid work requirements, issuing a rule that closely adheres to a list of exemptions already found in federal law.

The work requirements, passed as part of the Republican 2025 reconciliation law, are set to take effect...Read more

After a decade of Trumpism, it should come as no surprise that President Donald Trump’s ethos (presenting scandal as strength, outrage as authenticity and public disgrace as evidence you’re a “fighter”) has trickled down into congressional campaigns of both parties.

In Maine, for example, controversial oysterman and veteran Graham ...Read more