WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent the weekend using Air Force One to buzz the tower at major sporting events after last week’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping and as the Senate takes a final vote on a college athletics bill the chamber has spent weeks on.

He is slated to emphasize domestic issues as the midterm elections ...Read more

Artificial intelligence dominated the opening of the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 22, 2026. Ahead of the meeting, 20 nations released a statement requesting “human direction, oversight and control” of AI. The U.S. was not among them.

This followed several calls from within the industry itself: Earlier in September, ...Read more

The White House is using public funds to air a new ad that urges support for President Donald Trump’s right-wing agenda and is virtually identical to one that he used in his 2024 presidential campaign.

With the midterm congressional elections looming in just five weeks, the Trump administration has spent more than $300,000 and counting in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senators are plotting their exit for the fall midterm campaign season, but their work on Capitol Hill isn’t quite finished yet.

The first vote of what’s expected to be the Senate’s final workweek before the elections will be Monday on passage of a bipartisan bill to set rules of the road for name, image and likeness ...Read more

President Donald Trump has a loyalty problem. Actually, he has two of them.

The first concerns where his own loyalties lie. Consider these questions: Has he been loyal to the oath he took to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution? Does he respect the separation of powers and the limits on his authority as president? Does he understand that ...Read more

In a state that has become a Republican bastion — where the GOP has been in the governor’s mansion for nearly 30 years, holds a supermajority in the legislature and loves that President Donald Trump calls Florida home — Democrats are not used to optimism.

But in 2026, amid a toxic national environment for the GOP, Republican campaigns are...Read more

DENVER — Solid majorities of voters on both sides of the political aisle in Colorado’s tightly split 8th Congressional District favor stricter government regulations and tax incentives to combat environmental challenges like air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

That’s according to the latest poll results released Thursday by the ...Read more

Since the 2024 election, Democratic congressional candidates have reached a consensus about how to broadly discuss the border — make it secure — but they still lack a cohesive message about ICE.

Some advocate abolishing the agency, while others offer visions for how to rein it in and reform it.

Meanwhile, for Republicans, President Trump's...Read more

The proposed permanent U.S. military base in Poland, dubbed Fort Trump, will cost as much as 17 billion zloty ($4.4 billion) and could open as early as in 2029, according to a report from newspaper Rzeczpospolita.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in New York this week that Poland, a NATO member and a front-line state to Russia’s...Read more

MIAMI — President Donald Trump on Saturday condemned reports that Florida’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds distanced himself from the president by pulling prominent reference to his endorsement from the campaign’s website — and touted upcoming rallies in Florida to boost Donalds.

“Two Rallies are already scheduled in...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is planning to release new fuel efficiency mandates on Monday that would ease more stringent rules implemented under President Joe Biden.

President Donald Trump pitched the changes, which he announced in December, as a way to boost the domestic auto industry and lower consumer costs. He made the original ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — This summer, Lisa Demuth was twice asked to name one of President Donald Trump’s policies she disagreed with. She didn’t.

Then this week, the Republican nominee for governor announced she wants the war in Iran to end.

“It is hurting Minnesotans,” Demuth said.

With polls showing the president’s approval rating ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — It wasn’t technically a debate, but the candidates vying for Tampa Bay’s Congressional District 16 took shots at each other all the same in a virtual forum this week.

Republican Sydney Gruters and Democrat Kelly Kirschner, as well as Mark Davis, who’s not affiliated with any political party, answered a range of questions ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declined Tehran’s proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and expects to resume bombing Iran after the U.S. midterm elections in November, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Trump is skeptical about Iran’s willingness to meet his demands, WSJ said, citing unidentified U.S. officials. The move again stymies a...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House is refusing to allow CNN to travel on Air Force One to cover President Donald Trump’s trip to Tennessee Saturday, the network reported.

A White House schedule of the president’s public itinerary for Saturday, released late Friday, lists no major U.S. television networks in either the in-town pool that covers ...Read more

Amid the chorus of voices calling for a slowdown in AI advancement and more government regulation and oversight of the technology, one prominent contrarian voice stands out: that of Donald J. Trump.

The U.S president has repeatedly argued that the introduction of robust regulations to slow down progress on AI threatens U.S. national ...Read more

CHICAGO — Candidates for city office will have to stand by their campaign ads — in writing or aloud in commercials — by saying “I approve this message” as part of a set of pared-down ethics changes approved by the Chicago City Council.

But while other tweaks around “coercive” emails and use of city seals and logos also passed, a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — After two years of struggling to slow down the Trump administration agenda under a Republican governing trifecta, Democrats are hoping to capture both chambers of Congress in the upcoming midterms.

All 435 House of Representatives seats are up for election, with 37 considered competitive, 21 of them toss-ups, by the Cook ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate will return next week to wrap up business before the November midterm elections, seeking to take action on an affordability issue and score a political win for an endangered Republican incumbent.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters Thursday that a wide array of bills could potentially come to the ...Read more