WASHINGTON — Republican James Gallagher took the oath of office Wednesday, filling the seat of the late Rep. Doug LaMalfa in California’s 1st District and giving House leaders some breathing room in what has been a tumultuous year of deaths and resignations in Congress.

A former state Assembly GOP leader, Gallagher ran with endorsements ...Read more

Efforts by Black congressional candidates and political leaders to coalesce around one challenger to U.S. Debbie Wasserman Schultz apparently have failed.

Elijah Manley, one of four Black candidates in the Broward County 20th Congressional District, officially qualified as a candidate on Wednesday, dealing a blow to the unity effort.

A second ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — An upstart challenger to longtime U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro says that he will not have enough signatures to force a Democratic primary but is strongly considering an independent challenge in November.

Andrew Rice, 38, said he is not giving up in his battle with DeLauro after falling short at the party convention and in the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in the House and Senate are pushing bipartisan measures to increase U.S. support for Sudan as the country enters into the fourth year of a brutal civil war and humanitarian crisis.

In the Senate, Foreign Relations Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, with Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., on Tuesday introduced a bill to address the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Progressive Democrat Randy Villegas has secured his spot in the general election and will battle Republican Rep. David Valadao for one of the nation’s most critical House races.

Villegas clinched the second-place finish for California’s 22nd District Tuesday afternoon following the latest primary election update, ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The fight to see who will face off to replace Rep. Nancy Mace continues. Both the Republican and Democratic primaries for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District are headed for runoffs, set for June 23.

No candidate had adequate votes to win outright, according to reporting on scvotes.org, and all results are unofficial...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats appeared ready to reject President Donald Trump’s request for a short-term extension of a key surveillance authority Wednesday, arguing the president’s promise to eventually find a permanent intelligence head wasn’t good enough.

The action deepened a legislative standoff over Section 702 of the Foreign ...Read more

MIAMI — Attorney Kendrick Meek Jr. filed paperwork Wednesday to run for Florida’s 24th District, after Rep. Frederica Wilson announced two weeks ago that she wouldn’t seek reelection.

Meek enters with a special cachet: His grandmother, Carrie Meek, was among Florida’s first three Black representatives in Congress since Reconstruction ...Read more

A race for a key swing district in Northeastern Pennsylvania has caught the eye of a major Democratic super PAC that plans to spend around $50 million on advertising targeting Republican-held seats, according to the New York Times.

“We’re going to Republican territory and planting a flag,” Bradley Beychok, the president of American Bridge...Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday shrugged off punishing price hikes faced by ordinary Americans, saying “I love the inflation” as the closely watched economic gauge soared over 4% amid the Iran war.

Asked about a new report showing consumer prices rose by 4.2% compared to 12 months ago, Trump told reporters that the report was music to ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A trial whose outcome could impact Idaho’s abortion laws is underway in federal court in Boise, and the first two days have included expert witness testimony from the high-risk pregnancy specialist suing government officials and from several other specialists who detailed myriad potential pregnancy complications they said ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As advanced safety technologies reach new stages of development across the transportation sector, Congress has been grappling with how to legislate such innovations, trying to balance industry needs against calls to prevent tragic accidents.

A subcommittee hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee took ...Read more

WASHINGTON — For both parties, the bare-knuckle battle for control of the House winds through California.

Recent primaries in the Golden State provided an early look at how major themes shaping the midterm elections are playing out: ideological debates roiling the Democratic Party, a redrawn map that threw together two GOP incumbents and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury refunded nearly $22 billion in tariff revenue collected from importers in May, the first swath of such repayments since the Supreme Court struck down a major component of President Donald Trump’s trade policy.

The amount was roughly equal to tariffs taken in during the month, according to a Treasury ...Read more

NEW YORK — In the thick of his campaign for Congress, former City Comptroller Brad Lander went on trial in Manhattan Wednesday, facing a violation stemming from his arrest last year during an ICE protest at 26 Federal Plaza.

Lander, 56, who’s vying for Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman’s seat in New York’s 10th congressional district, is ...Read more

Donald Trump’s adored, 19-year-old granddaughter Kai Trump was front and center with him as he faced loud, “thunderous” boos from the thousands in the crowd at Madison Square Garden, as she, the president and their entourage attended Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday night.

People on social media wondered if Kai Trump was taken aback by ...Read more

WASHINGTON — ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones did not answer questions from lawmakers at a House Administration Committee hearing Wednesday, invoking her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

Wallace-Jones and the Democratic fundraising platform have been under scrutiny for years, as House Administration Chair Bryan Steil, R-Wis....Read more

NEW YORK — Front-runners Micah Lasher and Alex Bores sparred over artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency while Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg staked out a more progressive stance on Israel in a NY-12 congressional debate.

Lasher, who narrowly leads most polls, repeatedly trashed Bores for supposedly being in the pocket of Big Tech, while...Read more

WASHINGTON — Legislation aimed at reducing delays when Medicare Advantage plans require preapproval for care could hit the House floor under fast-track rules for bills that have broad support.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., targets use of prior authorization in Medicare Advantage — in which insurers approve or deny services ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Recent proposals to regulate artificial intelligence show Democratic paths diverging between cooperation and compromise on the one hand and sweeping regulations on the other.

Growing public angst about the new technology and its impact on jobs, communities and the environment has fueled both ends of the spectrum and, even in the ...Read more