Lawmakers expect to vote next week on a proposal to curb stock-trading by members of Congress, an effort months in the making that many Republicans are hoping to point to as they return home to their districts in August.

Democrats are lining up in opposition as they try to shore up their own campaign talking points, arguing the proposal should ...Read more

A longtime teleprompter operator for President Donald Trump has been accused of making more than $100,000 by using prediction markets to make winning bets on the content of his speeches, federal officials said Thursday.

Gabriel Perez, a White House tech assistant who has been running Trump’s teleprompter since his first term, has been ...Read more

Only one House Democrat from Pennsylvania voted against an amendment on Wednesday that would have ended aid to Israel.

The rest backed the measure along with the majority of Democrats in the chamber, highlighting shifts and factions within the party. The vote also inches closer to crossing a line that Democratic Sen. John Fetterman says could ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a prominent figure in national Democratic politics, said in an interview Thursday that the wildfire smoke blanketing Michigan and other places in the United States was a "manifestation" of climate change, which he labeled a crisis.

Sanders, an independent and self-described democratic socialist from ...Read more

Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez, a Miami Republican, faced little pushback from Democrats during a confirmation hearing Thursday for his nomination to be the U.S. ambassador to Brazil — except needing to answer for the Trump administration’s new tariff fight with the country.

Late Wednesday, while Perez was sleeping ahead of addressing ...Read more

Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton are expected to face each other in a debate, as they vie to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

The development in the high-profile statewide race comes after Talarico on Thursday challenged Ken Paxton to three televised debates. Paxton’s campaign has responded that the Texas attorney general ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, thumbing his nose at national Republicans on the morning after they subpoenaed him, rallied protesters on Capitol Hill on Thursday as one of his counterparts in Virginia, who had also been compelled by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, prepared to testify behind closed doors.

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The parades, reenactments and fireworks are over. And in the aftermath of Americans’ celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it is important to recognize that the declaration was only the first step in making a unified country.

Many of the founders argued that the country needed a remodeled ...Read more

President Donald Trump, along with some of his aides and supporters, have proposed a number of absurd ideas to aggrandize him. By far the most absurd is their repeated appeals to add his likeness to Mount Rushmore.

Carved into South Dakota’s Black Hills between 1927 and 1941, Rushmore features four of America’s most celebrated presidents: ...Read more

When the history of the first quarter of the 21st century is written, there will be one towering political figure above all the rest — President Donald J. Trump.

That’s why I believe he belongs on Mount Rushmore.

Not because the Washington establishment approves; it never will. Not because CNN or The New York Times says so; they never ...Read more

The House Wednesday shot down an amendment to a State Department spending bill that would have blocked billions in U.S. military aid to Israel, but a substantial number of Democrats voted to cut off Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war machine.

The chamber defeated Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie’s amendment, 104-314, ...Read more

Rep. Kevin Kiley, I-Rocklin, plans to introduce federal legislation to stop a new commemorative golden coin featuring President Donald Trump’s likeness.

The coin was unveiled Wednesday morning on X by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who said the U.S. would begin striking the $1 piece to commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary.

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The death of longtime U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham triggered a special primary election to replace his name on the November general election ballot.

State law clearly dictates when an election should be held following the death of a party nominee. Under the law, candidate filing opens the second Tuesday after the nominee’s death, and the election...Read more

Military planners at the Pentagon have been developing options for strikes against Cuba, including plans for an air assault spearheaded by the 101st Airborne Division involving several thousand U.S. troops.

According to a CBS report on Thursday, in late June the U.S. military held “a concept-of-operations briefing to discuss early-stage ...Read more

CARLISLE — President Donald Trump — as fighting resumes in Iran and his administration’s request for $1.5 trillion in defense funding stalls in Washington — used a Wednesday appearance at a defense industry summit in Central Pennsylvania to mostly boast about his perceived foreign and domestic achievements, from the oil business in ...Read more

Some Senate Republicans and Democrats actually agree on one thing: It could take years for another lawmaker to become as big of a voice in any president’s ear on foreign policy as Lindsey Graham was in Donald Trump’s.

In fact, as Trump on Wednesday delivered his first major national security remarks since his informal adviser’s sudden ...Read more

A penny for your thoughts? Those could soon cost a nickel — if you’re paying cash.

The U.S. House on Tuesday, July 14, by a unanimous voice vote, passed a bill from Reps. Robert Garcia, D-Long Beach, and Lisa McClain, R-Michigan, that legally ends the production of the penny and sets a federal standard allowing businesses to round prices to...Read more

The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner on Wednesday, ordering him to turn over documents related to his office’s handling of immigration matters and criticizing what it called the prosecutor’s “pro-illegal-alien policies.”

The Republican-led committee said in a letter that it sent the ...Read more