WASHINGTON — Rep. Morgan Griffith would love to eat an all-beef hot dog.

But the eight-term Virginia Republican from one of the biggest cattle-producing districts in Congress doesn’t eat red meat — against his will.

Griffith is one of the at least 450,000 Americans who have been diagnosed with alpha-gal syndrome, a disease caused by a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans released a revised cryptocurrency regulatory framework bill on Wednesday with an added section intended to address public officials’ potential crypto conflicts of interest. But more work remains to be done before the measure can get to the floor.

Democratic negotiators, incensed at President Donald Trump’s ...Read more

Congressional Republicans’ scrutiny of the Smithsonian intensified this week, exposing a sharp divide within Maryland’s congressional delegation over who should decide how America’s history is told in the nation’s museums.

Rep. Kweisi Mfume, a Baltimore Democrat, accused the Trump administration of trying to erase Black history, while ...Read more

President Donald Trump is poised to impose fresh levies on products from dozens of economies by Friday, according to people familiar with the matter, a move to ensure his tariff regime remains intact even after stopgap 10% global duties lapse.

The Trump administration last month proposed new tariffs of at least 10% on 60 trading partners, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As Congress struggles, yet again, to pass a funding extension to head off a government shutdown this fall, House appropriators took some time Wednesday to think about other ways of doing business.

For more than three hours, the Appropriations Committee debated the merits of tweaking the budget process in an effort to take ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House adopted a GOP-backed budget resolution along party lines Wednesday, taking a critical first step toward passing a $95 billion reconciliation package focused mostly on the Iran war.

The vote on the fiscal 2027 budget blueprint was 216-214, with only two Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Warren Davidson ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was in Georgia’s Cobb County on Wednesday, diving into one of the nation’s most closely watched political battlegrounds where Republicans are looking to flip a Senate seat in November.

The president and the GOP were hopeful his remarks at what was ostensibly an official White House event on the economy ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers took a step Wednesday toward reining in their own stock trading, a move Republicans hope will burnish Congress’ image as they head home for an extended August break.

In a mostly party-line 232-198 vote, the House passed a GOP-led bill that would bar members of Congress, their spouses and dependent children from buying...Read more

MIAMI — Florida’s Congressional District 20 has faced political headwinds in the middle of a key election year after a mid-year redistricting process that changed the demographics of the historically Black congressional district.

The race has also garnered national attention as sitting Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced her ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers went for a Smithsonian sequel this week, as a top museum official and a nearly identical group of witnesses appeared for their second congressional hearing.

Republicans have thrust the National Museum of American History into the spotlight and accused it of rewriting history two days in a row, first at the House ...Read more

With less than four months until a federal ban on most hemp-derived THC products is set to take effect, time is running short for lawmakers supporting the hemp industry to roll back the strict new rules.

A new bipartisan bill introduced Wednesday is the latest effort in Congress to replace the ban with a new framework to regulate and tax hemp-...Read more

Embattled Central Florida Congressman Cory Mills is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, according to reports from MS Now and ABC News.

The focus of the probe is unclear, though a source told MS Now that the FBI contacted at least one person last year about the Republican Congressman’s finances, allegations of misconduct ...Read more

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