WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. House candidate Robert Lulgjuraj has enough valid voter nominating signatures to remain on the ballot in a key suburban Detroit contest, a preliminary review by state election officials found.

"My opponents pushed frivolous and baseless accusations because they are concerned about the momentum we are building ...Read more

For the sixth and final time before votes are counted, the leading contenders for California governor gathered Thursday night for a televised debate, this one a 90-minute session in San Francisco.

Times columnists Gustavo Arellano, Mark Z. Barabak and Anita Chabria absorbed the rhetorical blows, followed the heated back-and-forths and took in ...Read more

Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much these days, but you can bet the house that they both share an aversion to political suicide. Consider this week’s Senate vote on a bill related to government shutdowns.

On Wednesday, members of the upper chamber adopted a resolution to withhold their pay — most make $174,000 a year — during ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Spencer Pratt speaks into his smartphone camera, blaming Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for the environmental catastrophe of the Palisades fire, which burned his house, and the homeless crisis that triggered "a sudden outbreak of a medieval disease," which we learn is typhus.

Then there's City Councilmember Nithya Raman, holding a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate Banking Committee voted Thursday to approve, mostly along party lines, legislation that would set the rules for the operation and oversight of digital asset markets, advancing a landmark bill the panel has been working on since last summer.

Months of negotiations between Republicans and Democrats resulted in only two ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed access to medication abortion via telemedicine and by mail to continue, blocking a decision at the appellate court level that had restricted the drug.

The justices granted emergency requests from the makers of mifepristone, Danco Laboratories LLC and GenBioPro Inc., after the New Orleans-...Read more

WASHINGTON — As more lawmakers than usual leave Congress, it begs the question — is this a one-off spike or a larger sign of things to come?

Retirement announcements are a feature of any election year, but this goes beyond normal turnover, experts say. Bitterly partisan redistricting pushes around the country have created a state of ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — As longtime U.S. House Rep. Nancy Pelosi heads into retirement, a slew of candidates are battling it out to replace the influential congresswoman.

Of the 11 on the June 2 ballot, three of the more prominent contenders for San Francisco’s 11th Congressional District who have reported raising the most money include state Sen....Read more

WASHINGTON — Privacy advocates of all political stripes say a federal data privacy standard is becoming more necessary as states pass their own laws and as artificial intelligence complicates the technology landscape.

To that end, a House Republican data privacy bill released last month would create consumer rights to delete personal data ...Read more

Candidates offered snapshots of their campaigns to close out the final debate in San Francisco before the June 2 primary.

Steve Hilton challenged the “one-party rule” of Democrats in California, saying it is “time for some balance.”

“I’m not an ideologue. I’m pragmatic, I’m a problem solver,” he said.

Matt Mahan pitched ...Read more

Democratic rivals for governor continued to hammer new frontrunner Xavier Becerra in a final televised debate in San Francisco ahead of the June 2 primary.

Becerra’s sharp rise in the polls — and record spanning more than three decades in office — made him a top target, continuing a theme from four other debates over the last month. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosures show that he made a slew of stock and bond purchases with major American companies in the first quarter of the year totaling in the tens of millions of dollars and possibly more.

The transactions, spelled out in documents filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics that...Read more

U.S. Senate candidates John Deaton and Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton will be participating in the first-ever interparty primary debate in Massachusetts, accepting challenges to join a debate.

The two are set to face off on WBZ in a forum hosted by John Keller on June 16, as incumbent Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., has yet to respond to the ...Read more

The death of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska.

The campaign of U.S. Senate candidate Roy Cooper.

The pardons, by President Donald Trump, of those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

All of these were topics on the U.S. House floor within a 30-minute span as lawmakers debated a bill introduced by Rep. Mark Harris, a Republican from ...Read more

NEW YORK — The father of Manhattan Assemblyman Alex Bores, a leading candidate in the Democratic race to represent the NY-12th congressional district, lauded the deaths of Israelis during the Iran war on social media while equating Zionism with Nazism, archived posts reviewed by the News show.

William Bores, a technical director at ABC and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosures show that he made a slew of stock and bond purchases with major American companies in the first quarter of the year totaling in the tens of millions of dollars and possibly more.

The transactions, spelled out in a pair of documents filed with the U.S. Office of Government ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Washington acknowledged Thursday the tight timeline he faces in deciding whether to pause President Donald Trump’s executive order to create a national voter list and limit mail voting nationwide.

Congressional Democratic leaders, the Democratic National Committee and party campaign committees, as well as ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Max Miller filed a lawsuit against his ex-wife and her legal team in Ohio, saying they engaged in a “defamatory campaign” against the Republican lawmaker to falsely cast him as a violent and abusive father and in part hurt his chances at reelection.

The complaint, filed Wednesday in a county-level court in Ohio, lists ...Read more