Republican candidate for Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District Tyler Kistner ended his campaign this week, citing his military service obligations as the main reason for withdrawing from the race.

Kistner, who is a veteran and reservist in the U.S. Marines, ran in the district in 2020 and 2022 against Democratic incumbent Angie Craig.

He ...Read more

It’s been more than a month since President Donald Trump teased an endorsement in the U.S. Senate race between incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, but the president has yet to weigh in on his pick for the statewide office.

On March 4, the day after Cornyn and Paxton advanced to a Republican runoff in the Texas ...Read more

The White House said a meeting Friday with Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei was “productive and constructive” as the Trump administration seeks wider access to the company’s powerful new Mythos artificial intelligence model.

The White House said opportunities for collaboration and for addressing the challenges from ...Read more

The race to fill beleaguered former Congressman Eric Swalwell’s seat is getting expensive, with Democratic candidate and nonprofit attorney Rakhi Israni, who previously donated to Republicans and right-wing figures such as Laura Loomer, reporting a fundraising haul in the millions.

While most of the candidates running have raised well under $...Read more

President Donald Trump used several hot-button cultural issues to make a midterm election pitch to a key conservative group in Phoenix on Friday, a day he spent portraying as a possible turning point in the U.S. war with Iran.

Trump had used a series of morning social media posts to suggest a long-term deal with Iran could be close hours before...Read more

WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought to distance himself from U.S. measles outbreaks on Friday at a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing on the administration’s fiscal 2027 budget request.

The hearing, part of Kennedy’s weeklong tour of Congress on the budget, was relatively light on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — During what should have been a week of crucial messaging and legislating, Congress spent the week instead focused on dramas on and off Capitol Hill.

And those sagas have left lawmakers with a lengthy to-do list to tackle next week before they scramble to leave D.C. ahead of their next district and state work periods.

Two House ...Read more

Latino voters across the country — a surprising part of Donald Trump’s coalition in 2024 — are now extremely dissatisfied with the president and his policies, a new poll shows.

But that is not so much true in Florida, where Cubans remain a bastion of GOP support.

In a nationwide survey of Latino voters conducted by Florida International...Read more

NEW YORK — Jill Biden was willing to spend some cold, hard cash for a chance to be on “Heated Rivalry.”

The former first lady put her fandom for the hit hockey show on full display Thursday during a live auction at the NYC Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center’s annual fundraiser, the Center Dinner. According to Variety,...Read more

You don’t even wanna know what he thinks a “bodega” might be.

President Donald Trump revealed he doesn’t know what a “corner store” is when he awkwardly interrupted his own speech at an economics roundtable to critique a speechwriter’s use of the ubiquitous term in the text of his remarks.

“What is a corner store? I’ve never ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a short-term extension of a key spy authority on Friday, sending to President Donald Trump a patchwork agreement intended to give House lawmakers more time to work out a deal over the privacy protections and other issues.

The measure, passed by voice vote in the Senate, would extend Section 702 of the Foreign ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The effort by Republican leadership to reauthorize a powerful surveillance tool collapsed on the House floor early Friday, in a late-night vote over privacy protections that left the future of the renewal push in limbo.

Lawmakers were summoned back to the House chamber more than eight hours after floor action had first been ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A satellite permitting bill unveiled this week in the House does not include provisions included in a Senate version regarding federal spectrum or a limit on the size of satellite constellations that would automatically win federal approval after expiration of a review deadline.

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on ...Read more

Thousands of Americans will soon gather to celebrate April 20 – or “4/20” – the most important day of the year for cannabis enthusiasts.

But this year, a cloud of uncertainty will hang over these celebrations. After years of success, the movement to legalize recreational and medical cannabis has stalled.

It’s a ...Read more

In Latin America, as in other parts of the world, the second Trump administration has adopted an increasingly aggressive policy.

From drone strikes on purported drug traffickers to increased tariffs on imports, and from the blockade on fuel shipments and threats of invasion in Cuba to the Jan. 3 military incursion into Venezuela, the ...Read more

Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives set April 21, 2026, as the date to hear from and question top Pentagon officials Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, and Gen. Dagvin R.M. Anderson, head of U.S. Africa Command, about the war in Iran. But Republican legislators put off the hearing for a month, giving up – for now...Read more

During the first year of his second presidency, President Donald Trump dispatched a chainsaw-wielding billionaire to loudly eliminate more than 300,000 federal jobs in an unsparing attempt to shrink the government.

Now, the Trump administration is quietly hiring again.

Job announcements posted to the federal government’s main hiring portal ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — President Donald Trump touted his signature tax cuts at a Las Vegas roundtable discussion Thursday, declaring that the U.S. economy was “booming.”

The president was flanked by local workers who thanked him after he highlighted provisions in the “One Big Beautiful Act,” including increased earnings from the “no tax on ...Read more

Democrat Analilia Mejía, a progressive organizer with ties to labor interests, won Thursday’s special election in New Jersey for the seat formerly held by Gov. Mikie Sherrill.

Mejía was leading Republican Joe Hathaway, the mayor of Randolph Township, 70% to 29% not long after The Associated Press called the race for North Jersey’s 11th ...Read more

Analilia Mejia, a progressive organizer, will replace New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill in Congress after winning a special election Thursday night.

Mejia defeated Republican Joe Hathaway, the former Randolph mayor, The Associated Press projected at 8:07 p.m., shortly after polls closed. The 11th District includes parts of Essex, Morris, and ...Read more