Americans who might agree on little else share a common interest in preserving Social Security and Medicare.

Nearly all of us are either enrolled in those universal programs or expect to be as we get older. Social Security is far and away the nation’s most important safety net.

So it should alarm Republicans, Democrats and independents that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. officials have discussed creating a $1.7 billion federal fund to pay victims of so-called government weaponization to resolve President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. Million-dollar payouts the administration has already made to some of his supporters provide a roadmap for where the money might...Read more

Support for President Donald Trump has significantly dipped among Latinos who voted for him in 2024.

A new Pew Research Center survey found that 66% of Latino Trump voters approve of the president’s job performance 16 months into his second term. That is a drop of 27 percentage points from where the group stood in February 2025.

The decline ...Read more

MIAMI — Gov. Ron DeSantis waved off a lawsuit accusing him of illegally soliciting special favors for Florida by giving Donald Trump’s presidential library foundation free land during a visit to Miami Dade College Friday.

He pointed to the fact that the land was granted to a nonprofit, not the president himself, as part of his dismissive ...Read more

DENVER — Elected officials from across Colorado largely ripped into Gov. Jared Polis’ Friday decision to dramatically accelerate the release of Tina Peters, accusing the governor of caving to President Donald Trump by commuting the election conspiracist’s sentence.

The condemnations were swift, with some officials saying the decision ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in Congress scored some victories this week in nominations and appropriations but struck out on easily advancing their partisan “reconciliation 2.0” proposal to fund immigration enforcement.

The bill faces a hurdle in the form of the Senate Parliamentarian, who on Thursday evening advised that several ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis reduced Tina Peters’ sentence by half on Friday, ignoring months of pleas against such an action by many other Colorado elected officials and the prosecutor who won the former county clerk’s conviction in an election data-breach scheme.

In a letter to Peters, Polis wrote that she will “be released on parole ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee has called on the executives of major social media companies to testify before the panel next month regarding child online safety.

Chairman Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, sent letters to the heads of Meta, Google, Snap and TikTok earlier this month seeking attendance at a hearing on June 23 titled “...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen announced Friday that he wouldn’t seek reelection this year after Tennessee Republicans redrew the state’s House map, splitting his Memphis-based district between three deep-red seats.

Cohen, who had been facing a primary challenge from state Rep. Justin Pearson before the passage of the new lines,...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosures show that he or his investment advisers made more than 3,700 trades in the first quarter, a flurry totaling tens of millions of dollars and involving major companies that have dealings with his administration.

The transactions, spelled out in more than 100 pages of ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis will reduce Tina Peters’ sentence by half, he confirmed Friday, appearing to bend to demands from President Donald Trump — while ignoring the pleas of many other Colorado elected officials and the prosecutor who won the former county clerk’s conviction in an election data-breach scheme.

The commutation will ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. House candidate Robert Lulgjuraj has enough valid voter nominating signatures to remain on the ballot in a key suburban Detroit contest, a preliminary review by state election officials found.

"My opponents pushed frivolous and baseless accusations because they are concerned about the momentum we are building ...Read more

For the sixth and final time before votes are counted, the leading contenders for California governor gathered Thursday night for a televised debate, this one a 90-minute session in San Francisco.

Times columnists Gustavo Arellano, Mark Z. Barabak and Anita Chabria absorbed the rhetorical blows, followed the heated back-and-forths and took in ...Read more

Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much these days, but you can bet the house that they both share an aversion to political suicide. Consider this week’s Senate vote on a bill related to government shutdowns.

On Wednesday, members of the upper chamber adopted a resolution to withhold their pay — most make $174,000 a year — during ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Spencer Pratt speaks into his smartphone camera, blaming Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for the environmental catastrophe of the Palisades fire, which burned his house, and the homeless crisis that triggered "a sudden outbreak of a medieval disease," which we learn is typhus.

Then there's City Councilmember Nithya Raman, holding a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate Banking Committee voted Thursday to approve, mostly along party lines, legislation that would set the rules for the operation and oversight of digital asset markets, advancing a landmark bill the panel has been working on since last summer.

Months of negotiations between Republicans and Democrats resulted in only two ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed access to medication abortion via telemedicine and by mail to continue, blocking a decision at the appellate court level that had restricted the drug.

The justices granted emergency requests from the makers of mifepristone, Danco Laboratories LLC and GenBioPro Inc., after the New Orleans-...Read more

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