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

WASHINGTON — If and when the next government shutdown rolls around, the laundry list of consequences will now include a pay freeze for U.S. senators.

On a voice vote, the Senate passed a resolution from Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., that requires the Senate secretary to withhold compensation for the duration of a shutdown.

The change in Senate ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court appeared skeptical Thursday of a push from President Donald Trump to punish four major law firms, in a case that could outline the bounds of presidential power and have broader ramifications for the legal industry.

The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an anti-abortion challenge to federal regulations that permit sending pills through the mail once a patient has consulted a doctor online.

The justices granted an emergency appeal from the makers of mifepristone and set aside an order from a U.S. appeals court in Louisiana that would have ...Read more

WASHINGTON — One year after President Donald Trump fired the librarian of Congress, support is growing for a bill that would prevent it from happening again.

The heads of both the Library of Congress and the Government Publishing Office should be appointed not by the president but by a congressional commission, lawmakers on the House ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House Committee on Ethics confirmed Thursday afternoon that Rep. Chuck Edwards is under investigation for “allegations that he “may have created or fostered a hostile work environment and engaged in sexual harassment.”

The committee announced the investigation in a news release Thursday. It’s the first time it ...Read more

Seven of the leading contenders for California governor will meet Thursday evening for what’s likely to be the final debate ahead of the June 2 primary in the race to replace outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The event will be the fifth debate in less than a month and comes as two candidates – Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton �...Read more