One of President Donald Trump’s closest aides, Natalie Harp, worked in the White House for more than a year without completing the normal security clearance process, according to a recent MS Now report.

Harp may have been among the personnel granted interim Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information access at the beginning of ...Read more

LANSING — Democratic congressional hopeful Will Lawrence punched back at President Donald Trump after the Republican accused him of hating families and the American way of life during an address at the GOP's midterm convention in Dallas.

Trump never mentioned Lawrence by name from the stage Sept. 9, but the accusations appeared to hit on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has denied the Trump administration’s request to let the U.S. Postal Service enforce new restrictions for mail-in ballots, handing the Justice Department another setback as it urges the Supreme Court to intervene ahead of the November midterm elections.

The order on Thursday from the 1st U.S. Circuit ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Taxpayers footed the bill for more than half a million dollars in sexual harassment settlements involving members of the House, according to estimates released Thursday by the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights.

While the document, which totals seven pages, does not contain any bombshell revelations, it offers a snapshot of...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — A Virginia Beach sailor was pardoned by President Donald Trump last week after spending four years in federal prison for possessing and selling unregistered weapons.

Patrick Tate Adamiak, a former Navy master at arms, was convicted in federal court and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

According to federal prosecutors, a ...Read more

In August 2026, government investigators subjected roughly 50 military officers and civilian employees on the Joint Staff to polygraph tests as part of an inquiry into press leaks about the Iran war and depleted U.S. munitions, according to The New York Times. The newspaper described the scope of the investigation as unprecedented in the ...Read more

DALLAS — President Donald Trump put himself on the midterm ballot Wednesday but acknowledged it would take more time to end the Iran war and lower gas prices.

If some vulnerable Republican candidates were eager to distance themselves from an unpopular president, Trump used the opening night of the first-ever GOP midterm convention to tether ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s promise to give $5,000 to every American adult if Republicans win the midterms fell flat as critics and even some allies trashed the plan as unworkable, irresponsible and potentially illegal.

Trump made the $1.2 trillion gambit at his midterm Republican convention as he seeks to do anything he can to rescue ...Read more

Haiti’s first general elections in a decade are less than 100 days away, and already questions about preparations are fueling doubts about whether the country will be ready to vote as scheduled on Dec. 13.

Among the biggest warning signs is a sluggish voter-registration process. With just 34 days left before registration closes and barely a ...Read more

Despite being divided on most issues, an overwhelming majority of Americans agree that their democracy is in a state of crisis or facing serious challenges.

A few of the symptoms of the problem: Close allies see the U.S. as a threat to peace. Immigration raids by poorly trained federal agents have terrorized cities. President Donald ...Read more

The U.S. Justice Department demanded that Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar preserve records related to the 2024 election while the federal government appeals a court ruling in a lawsuit that seeks the state’s unredacted voter registration database.

In a litigation-hold letter, DOJ official Eric Neff also informed the state’s ...Read more

California and nearly two dozen other states warned the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday that allowing the U.S. Postal Service to move forward with President Trump's new rules for mail ballots in the November election would cause "chaos" and could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters.

"In some States ... compliance with USPS' rule would be ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Fighting for reelection, Orange County Rep. Young Kim has removed several references to President Trump from her campaign website as she tries to broaden her appeal to voters in a race against fellow Republican Rep. Ken Calvert.

The two are locked in a brutal intraparty fight over one of the only safe districts left for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration proposed on Wednesday to exclude undocumented and temporary immigrants from the data used to apportion House seats after the 2030 census, continuing a push from his first term.

The changes, coupled with reducing the demographic data collected about Americans, could mean shifts in congressional seats among...Read more

Sen. Mitch McConnell’s monthslong absence created a roadblock to passing a new farm bill in Congress — a piece of legislation agriculture advocates say McConnell has championed throughout his career.

As the timing of McConnell’s return remains unclear, some Kentucky politicians and agricultural groups anticipate Kentucky’s senior ...Read more

The Trump administration Wednesday unveiled proposed new rules for the census that would order the national count to exclude undocumented immigrants and not ask about race, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

The proposals, which would likely face fierce objections and legal challenges, aims to reshape the once-a-decade count of people living in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Brian Baird has spent a lot of time thinking about death over the last 25 years.

Not just his own, but also his former House colleagues’.

Making his way through the Longworth House Office Building on 9/11 and urging people to evacuate after seeing smoke rising from the Pentagon out of his seventh-floor window, Baird was struck...Read more

A congressional ethics watchdog has cleared U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar of wrongdoing over errors in a financial disclosure that initially listed millions of dollars in assets tied to her husband’s businesses.

The Office of Congressional Conduct investigated whether Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, reported false or incomplete information in violation of...Read more

President Donald Trump gave $45,000 cash as Christmas gifts last year to his assistant Natalie Harp, as well as two other female aides, financial disclosure documents revealed.

The president doled out the large bonus to Harp, who has raised eyebrows for her ubiquitous presence by his side, and the same amount to communications adviser Margo ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — A grim new milestone for U.S. debt and surging interest rates haven’t sparked much urgency for a new round of deficit cutting on Capitol Hill. Yet.

But with federal debt topping $40 trillion for the first time last month, lawmakers will likely have to lift the $41.1 trillion statutory debt ceiling within the next year or so....Read more