WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump pressed U.S. oil refiners to boost domestic production of gasoline and diesel during a closed-door meeting Tuesday, as he contends with high prices and mounting cost-of-living concerns before November’s midterm elections.

Trump made clear he wants lower gas prices at the pump for Americans and asked ...Read more

Minnesota’s hemp industry can breathe a little easier after Congress approved a one-month delay of a hemp ban many producers say would be devastating.

In a bipartisan, 370-to-40 vote, the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a short-term government funding bill, the same one approved by the Senate last month. Tucked into the bill ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It’s not exactly a full-throated endorsement of the candidate who defeated him in a contentious South Florida congressional primary, but Oliver Larkin says he’s going to “stand by our Democratic ticket,” which includes U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz.

In Larkin’s view, it’s essential to keep the district in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House on Tuesday adopted a resolution denouncing “socialism in all its forms,” boosting a Republican messaging push just two months before the midterm elections.

It also calls for passage of a GOP-backed voter ID bill — language that further diminished Democratic support for the measure, even among lawmakers who ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House members on Tuesday censured Rep. Chuck Edwards for sexual harassment of two former staffers, even as he insisted that poetry he wrote and gifts he gave were not intended to be romantic.

They voted overwhelmingly, 413-2, to censure Edwards and adopt a report from the Ethics Committee detailing “persistent unprofessional ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Chuck Edwards apologized Tuesday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to the two young women on his staff he’s accused of sexually harassing, and to his family, including his wife, Teresa.

But he continued to deny the allegations as he became the 29th member of the House to be censured.

The House voted 413-2 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Defense-minded lawmakers are growing concerned about leadership vacuums in the military following the resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.

“I’m tired of all the churn. I want to see some stability,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., told reporters Tuesday.

Pressed on if he’s concerned...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was nonchalant last week when asked about a contested administration rule that would use the U.S. Postal Service to weed out allegedly illegal midterm election ballots. His foes say that’s all part of a broader plan, even as they offered few surefire ways to stop it.

Trump was asked last Thursday ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Legislation that would require parental consent for social media platforms to process data for users under 16 advanced out of a House panel on Tuesday, after it was amended to remove a proposed ban on social media accounts for kids.

The bill, as amended, won approval by voice vote in the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers voted to hold two associates of former Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick in contempt of Congress, accusing them of failing to comply with multiple subpoenas.

The House adopted the resolutions by voice vote Tuesday, referring the matter to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution.

While the Florida ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House easily cleared a stopgap spending bill Tuesday that would keep federal agencies funded through Dec. 11, avoiding the risk of a partial government shutdown this fall.

On a lopsided vote of 370-48, the House sent to President Donald Trump’s desk a short-term funding patch despite objections from hard-right conservatives...Read more

The first poll of Florida’s Congressional District 13 after the primary has good news for Democrats as they seek the U.S. House majority.

A Democrat-sponsored pollster, Hart Research Associates, has GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna down by five points in a head-to-head with retired Brig. Gen. Leela Gray, her Democratic challenger.

With independent...Read more

WASHINGTON — House GOP leaders on Tuesday narrowly gathered enough support to adopt a rule allowing their side’s bills to come to the floor, after concerns related to a stopgap spending bill to keep the government funded through the midterm elections nearly derailed the procedural resolution.

After resounding passage of the stopgap bill, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Chuck Edwards apologized Tuesday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to the two young women on his staff he’s accused of sexually harassing, and to his family, including his wife, Teresa.

But he continued to deny the allegations as the House prepared to consider later Tuesday whether he should be the chamber�...Read more

As the 2026 midterm elections enter the final stretch, it’s important to know your rights in case your vote is challenged.

The best way to ensure that your vote is counted is to advocate for yourself. I’m a an attorney and lecturer for the University of Southern California’s undergraduate civil rights advocacy initiative, Agents...Read more

Tina Peters, who served prison time for tampering with voting machines on behalf of the MAGA movement, has declined a job offer helping to oversee elections in a conservative Northern California county.

“She declined the offer because she’s running around the country right now trying to secure the elections,” Clint Curtis, the Shasta ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court, as one of its members recently noted, has held that judges “are not required to exhibit a naiveté from which ordinary citizens are free.” And yet, that is precisely what its conservative justices just did.

Considering one of Donald Trump’s latest attempts to illegally suppress votes, the court’s Republican-...Read more

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Among the most enduring scenes in “Rocky II” are the opponents training for the rematch. Apollo Creed pummels a heavy bag and skips rope. Rocky Balboa lifts a large log onto his shoulders and performs squats. Strength and endurance become critical factors as the two prepare to meet again in the boxing ring.

Two Navy ...Read more

Shame on President Donald Trump for skipping the Ground Zero ceremony in NYC marking 25 years since the terror attacks of 9/11/2001.

The so-called champion of law enforcement has decided to spit on the graves of the firefighters and cops who charged toward the burning buildings in Lower Manhattan to save those they could, along with the ...Read more

Having dynamited trade talks with Canada — in part due to the intervention of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — President Donald Trump has now imposed 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods, with Canada immediately retaliating. This will be good for no one, especially the auto industry that straddles both countries.

We’re certainly not ...Read more