Memo to President Donald Trump: Canada is our friend.

A round of recent trade talks, necessitated in the first place by a series of American tariffs on our neighbor to the north early in Trump’s second term, collapsed late last week and now the U.S. is embroiled in the most foolish of trade wars with Canada. The Trump administration reacted ...Read more

Fourteen of the nation’s current governors once served in Congress.

By early next year, that number could grow to 20 if the states and territories with current or former members on their gubernatorial ballot end up electing them in November.

Six states and one territory have an opportunity this fall to elect a governor with congressional ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a jolt to the impending midterm elections by reviving President Donald Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting while creating a tangle of new legal and logistical questions as states prepare to make ballots available.

The court’s conservative majority on Monday agreed with the Justice ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A 73-year-old man suspected in the vandalism of political campaign signs across the Las Vegas Valley has been arrested.

David Smith was arrested and booked Monday into the Clark County Detention Center for placing graffiti or defacing property, $5,000 or greater, according to a Metropolitan Police Department release.

Campaign ...Read more

Illinois’ Democratic leaders expressed trepidation Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with plans that could severely limit mail-in voting, raising warnings that it could create chaos for the Nov. 3 general election.

With the first day to vote by mail in Illinois less than a month away on Sept. 24,...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A Supreme Court decision on mail voting has created uncertainty with less than 70 days until critical midterm elections, but Pennsylvania Democrats are trying to reassure voters that they’ll have the option to cast a ballot by mail.

More litigation over this highly watched issue is expected and further rulings could still ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday distanced herself from President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement last week that he had reached a deal with still-unnamed countries to ramp up beef imports.

Trump on Friday announced a plan to temporarily allow more tariff-free foreign beef into the United States in an effort ...Read more

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Tuesday defended his recent meeting with Jared Kushner as a way to explore possible bipartisan cooperation even as he vowed to keep fighting aggressively against President Donald Trump’s right-wing agenda and to hold the “Trump cartel” accountable for alleged corruption.

While the sit-down produced no concrete results...Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America if Canada doesn’t cave to his demands in the still-escalating trade war.

After days of verbal jousting, Trump singled out the Canadian industrial powerhouse province whose premier has derided him as a dictator and worse.

“The United States is ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s executive order on vaccines, signed August 10, is the latest in his administration’s endless attacks on public health. It recommends that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, or MMR, be separated into three individual shots. There is no scientific evidence or public health data to support this decision. Trump has ...Read more

The reaction to a procedural ruling by the Supreme Court on Aug. 24, 2026, was immediate and sharp.

The conservative justices’ decision in the 6-3 ruling to lift a block on implementation of President Donald Trump’s March 2026 executive order imposing restrictions on mail voting had voting rights advocates and many state officials...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump floated the idea of changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in a social media post Tuesday amid an intensifying feud with Canada.

The Republican president posted about the possibility of the name switch at about 7 a.m. Last year, he issued an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of ...Read more

On Election Day in 2024, as voters cast their ballots, Elon Musk posted a campaign music video supporting Donald Trump’s bid for president.

Set to Van Halen’s “Jump,” with a montage of 1980s cultural references and images of Trump in various strongman poses, the video includes a line about “PATRIOTS” in which the “O” ...Read more

In the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections, how is the U.S. government performing in terms of human rights? Listening to politicians, it can be difficult to know.

On one hand, some have pointed to a number of potential human rights abuses committed by the U.S. government inside and outside its borders in the past two years.

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LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump floated the idea of changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in an Aug. 25 social media post, amid an intensifying feud with Canada.

The Republican president posted about the possibility of the name switch at about 7 a.m. Last year, he issued an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of ...Read more

Elected officials rarely miss a chance to pose for photos at military bases or thank military personnel for their service. But when it comes to providing the pay, health care and quality housing that service members and their families deserve, political leaders are often slow to report for duty — or are AWOL entirely.

Such is the case with ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley, the oldest member of Congress, was born in 1933, the year Prohibition ended.

On the other end of the age spectrum, Congress’ youngest member, Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost of Florida, was born in 1997, the year Google registered its domain.

That’s an age gap of some 64 years — about the same ...Read more

Miami Republican U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar has become increasingly blunt in her disagreement with President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and how she believes they hurt Republicans among Hispanic voters: “Mr. President, listen to what I’m telling you, sir: You’re a smart guy — you are playing with fire,” she said ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that California intends to sue the Trump administration again over President Donald Trump’s efforts to impose new restrictions on mail-in voting ahead of the November midterms.

The announcement came after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the administration to move forward with key parts ...Read more