FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz entered the final stretch of a short but bruising Democratic primary campaign with an enormous financial advantage over her four opponents.

After a strong fundraising quarter, newly filed finance reports show Wasserman Schultz had $2.8 million in her campaign account seven weeks ...Read more

The State Department on July 16, 2026, hosted what officials billed as a ministerial on the resurgence of left-wing political terrorism.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio invited representatives from more than 60 countries to Washington to hear an argument that many of them appear not to believe: that a transnational far-left terrorist ...Read more

Members of the House Foreign Affairs committee challenged the Trump administration Tuesday over what Democrats described as a contradiction in U.S. policy: ending deportations protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in the United States while simultaneously spending millions of dollars to support a new gang-fighting force in the...Read more

WASHINGTON — Generic drug manufacturers will have two years to move production to the U.S. or face a 100% import duty from August 2028, President Donald Trump said in a social media post Tuesday.

That levy would then double a year later, to 200%, in August 2029.

“This is done in order to RESHORE Generic Pharmaceutical Production into ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The good news for Republicans is that President Donald Trump’s job approval rating isn’t getting any worse. The bad news is that many of the issues that drove his rating down in the first place are making their way back into the news, with the midterm elections creeping closer with each passing day.

After beginning his second...Read more

WASHINGTON — Louisiana Democrat Cleo Fields said Tuesday that he would not seek reelection this fall after his majority-Black district was redrawn to favor Republicans earlier this year.

Instead, Fields said he would seek a return to the state Senate, running for his old seat that’s newly open following the recent death of his successor.

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CHICAGO — Two progressive, independent candidates for the 4th Congressional District should not appear on the General Election ballot in November, the Illinois State Board of Elections voted Tuesday.

The board voted without opposition that Mayra Macías and the other hopeful, Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez, 25th, should not be on the ballot for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards hired a Washington-based attorney to represent him on allegations that he sexually harassed female staffers.

Paul Shumaker, Edwards’ political consultant, confirmed to McClatchy on Tuesday morning that Edwards hired Andrew D. Herman.

“He was going to hire counsel that has experience in these things,�...Read more

WASHINGTON — As lawmakers clashed with a top Smithsonian official at a Tuesday hearing, they ping-ponged between small details — like items sold in the gift shop — and the loftiest American ideals.

Republicans accused Anthea M. Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, of trying to “rewrite” the country’s past ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — A fight over an embattled drug discount program is intensifying on Capitol Hill, as lawmakers weigh competing proposals to reshape the program amid escalating tensions between hospitals and drugmakers.

Lawmakers in both chambers have rolled out, or are planning to soon introduce, fresh proposals to alter the 340B program, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Independent voters’ skepticism of Donald Trump’s baseless claims about the 2020 presidential race and his contention that American elections are not secure are contributing to a broader trend of the key voting bloc abandoning the president ahead of November’s midterms.

Multiple polls conducted in recent weeks show ...Read more

WASHINGTON — An upcoming vote on reining in stock trading by members of Congress is serving as a painful reminder of what could have been for a bipartisan working group who hoped to ban stock ownership by lawmakers entirely.

Members who spent months working on the effort described lingering frustration this week as a bill backed by Republican...Read more

President Donald Trump returned to a familiar theme last week, delivering a prime-time address on election integrity which implied that many states allow those in the country illegally to vote. He called the system “dishonest” and even singled out Nevada.

Democrats responded that the president was trying to undermine faith in the upcoming ...Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Suzan DelBene of Medina spent a late September Friday in Seattle raising money for Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, the Democratic incumbent vying for a third term representing rural — and heavily Republican — Southwest Washington.

About a month later, according to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, ...Read more

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders believes discontent with the political establishment who he says hasn’t delivered for working class Americans will propel progressives into positions of power across the country — including Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan.

Sanders, an icon of the Democratic party’s progressive base, returned to Minneapolis on Monday to...Read more

The GOP’s congressional campaign arm announced Monday that it’s adding Tampa Bay’s 14th Congressional District to its target list of seats it wants to flip in the midterms.

Eight Republican candidates are vying in a primary to be the one to take on incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor of Tampa, whose once-blue district now excludes...Read more

Some of Kentucky’s federal delegation are criticizing President Donald Trump’s speech that doubled down on raising doubts about election integrity in the United States.

In a prime time address Thursday night, Trump announced he has declassified documents that reveal issues in America’s election system in the 2020 and 2018 elections, ...Read more

The Trump administration will not renew direct federal funding of community-based organizations that work on HIV prevention, according to multiple groups impacted by the freeze.

The move is the latest step in the administration’s push to eliminate funding for DEI-focused initiatives that help the LGBTQ community.

But this one directly ...Read more

President Donald Trump used a nationally televised address on July 16, 2026, to unveil a collection of declassified documents. He said these documents, which the White House posted online during the address, show serious vulnerabilities in American election systems, extensive Chinese acquisition of U.S. voter data, and an intelligence ...Read more