Todd Blanche, a onetime personal lawyer for the president, squeaked through Senate confirmation recently by a single vote. Asked Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether the Justice Department he now leads will always act independently of the White House, Blanche declared flatly, “No, I’m not going to pledge that.”

His demonstrated...Read more

The fate of President Donald Trump’s estimated US$400 million White House ballroom may hinge on the little-known and somewhat surprising rules as to when the federal government and its agencies can accept privately donated funds.

That’s because Trump’s is using the fact that he’s been accepting private donations to pay for at ...Read more

Progressive California state Sen. Aisha Wahab will replace former Rep. Eric Swalwell in Congress and finish his current term.

Democrat Wahab defeated Melissa Hernandez, the president of the Bay Area Rapid Transit Board and the former mayor of Dublin who was seen as the more moderate candidate. The two faced off in a special runoff election on ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Less than a week after a federal judge ruled that Idaho cannot enforce state abortion bans in certain physical or mental health-related instances, the Idaho Attorney General’s Office appealed the case to a higher court.

Idaho District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill issued his decision Aug. 13 in a case brought by Boise maternal-...Read more

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s July 2026 appointment of Darline Graham to fill the remainder of her late brother Lindsey Graham’s Senate term – and her subsequent decision to run for the seat – may seem unusual. After all, Darline Graham has no experience in elected office and was virtually unknown outside of the small circle of...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced Thursday that it is adding GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s seat to its list of top flip opportunities this fall.

The news comes after retired Brig. Gen. Leela Gray, who has raised more than $1 million, easily won the Democratic primary for Congressional District 13 on ...Read more

Ex-fixer Michael Cohen has made nice with President Donald Trump and plans to air an interview this weekend with his former boss turned bitter frenemy on his new radio show.

Cohen, who infamously fell out with Trump in part over the disbarred lawyer’s conviction and imprisonment in the Stormy Daniels hush money case, teased excerpts of the ...Read more

A U.S. congressman from California is urging the Trump administration to reinstate Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, arguing that a recent visit to a violence-torn Haiti convinced him that conditions remain far too dangerous for hundreds of thousands of its nationals to safely return.

Rep. Ami Bera made the appeal in a letter Wednesday ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is adding five more candidates to its “Red to Blue” program for top recruits, including Maine State Auditor Matt Dunlap, who defeated the group’s preferred candidate in a primary earlier this year.

The other four candidates are running in Republican-held districts that backed ...Read more

In the past decade, study after study has come to a troubling conclusion: Trust in news and journalism has declined dramatically.

The public’s loss of trust corresponds with the explosive development of our information ecosystem. The more options audiences have to find news elsewhere, the less trust the public has placed in ...Read more

In April 2026, a federal grand jury returned indictments charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The indictment alleges the SPLC, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, secretly funneled more than US$3 million in donated funds to people associated with violent ...Read more

State Democratic officials are preparing for chaos at the polls this November, as President Donald Trump casts doubt on election security and pushes for more federal involvement in local voting.

“We’re no longer talking about hypothetical situations,” said Nick Brown, Washington state’s Democratic attorney general, noting the president�...Read more

So much for the presidential candidate who claimed the desire to end “forever wars.” President Donald Trump’s administration has trapped itself in a Middle East quagmire with Iran. A conflict the president said would last only weeks will soon surpass six months as global energy prices continue to surge.

Results of Trump’s second-term ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Tina Peters was recently released early from prison amid a pressure campaign from President Donald Trump after the former Colorado elections official was convicted of tampering with voting machines.

Now, the top elections official in a conservative California county with a long history of voting controversies is seeking to hire ...Read more

President Donald Trump continues to enrich himself through rampant self-dealing while everyone else pays the cost of his failed policies — including the war in Iran, tariffs, and mass deportations.

Now comes the latest pocket-lining scheme that reeks of insider trading.

Trump’s media company has begun selling investors advanced access to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced plans to inflict what he called “an ECONOMIC D-DAY” against Iran, underscoring his rising frustration with the country’s refusal to capitulate despite weeks of military strikes and a U.S. blockade that’s crimped its oil exports.

Trump didn’t specify what measures he would take but his ...Read more

Pennsylvania Democrats, including Gov. Josh Shapiro, are pointing to a stunning upset in a special election for a deep-red statehouse district as proof that the party has momentum while campaigning this fall for a trifecta in Harrisburg.

Butler County Democrat Brandon Dukes said his apparent victory over Republican Scott Timko, by fewer than ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. will begin what President Donald Trump said would be an unprecedented economic warfare operation against Iran, after faulting the country for failing to take its chance to make a deal with him.

“Therefore, today, I am announcing the MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY! This will be Economic...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the national campaign arm of the Democratic Party, announced it will target 16 competitive Missouri House and Senate races in an effort to break the Republican supermajority.

That includes four House seats and two Senate seats in the Kansas City area. The DLCC calls the 2026 ...Read more