The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday evening that would have the country adopt daylight saving time year-round.

The bill, the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, passed 308-117 and will move to the Senate for consideration. It was proposed by Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Florida, in January 2025, according to previous Star-Telegram ...Read more

Congressional lawmakers questioned University of Illinois College of Medicine interim Dean Enrico Benedetti in a multihour hearing Tuesday about antisemitism on campus and the role of diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom, nearly a year after a congressional committee first launched an investigation into the school.

Benedetti, a ...Read more

Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett pitched increased security funding for the Supreme Court next year at a pair of rare congressional hearings for sitting justices Tuesday that covered issues ranging from emergency cases to judicial ethics.

Kagan and Barrett focused most of their testimony on increased security concerns at the court ...Read more

Republican U.S. House candidate Robert Lulgjuraj has suspended his campaign for a suburban Detroit swing seat, he announced Tuesday.

The decision comes some three weeks after President Donald Trump endorsed one of his opponents, Army veteran Mike Bouchard of Rochester Hills, in the GOP primary to replace outgoing U.S. Rep. John James, who is ...Read more

As the long-shot motion for a new trial remains pending, imprisoned Chicago R&B superstar R. Kelly has formally asked President Donald Trump to commute his 30-year sentence for an array of sexual misconduct convictions.

The request for clemency was made public this week by the Office of the Pardon Attorney, the Department of Justice agency that...Read more

Since South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s death on June 11, 2026, much of the commentary has focused on his evolution from Donald Trump critic to Trump ally.

But focusing on that transformation misses the broader pattern that defined his political career. For more than three decades, Graham repeatedly positioned himself where ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the “Born Alive Abortion Survivor Protection Act,” an anti-abortion bill that critics say is meant to intimidate health care providers.

The bill is the most consequential piece of legislation passed in Missouri this year and was fiercely debated in the final days of the legislative session. The ...Read more

When Leslie Moreno-Roacho’s son Zaiden became the first child in New Mexico to receive a state-funded Baby Bond, she told a local television reporter the deposit was “a ticket to opportunities. The opportunities I never had.”

On July 4, millions of American families were handed the same kind of ticket. Most had no idea how to use it.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio is abusing a provision of an old law to detain and try to deport people that the Trump administration doesn’t like. It’s wrong and it’s likely unconstitutional.

Passed by a Republican Congress over the veto of Harry Truman, the Red Scare-era Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952 says: “An alien whose...Read more

NEW YORK — GOP Rep. Tom Kean Jr.’s reelection hopes have taken another blow as President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has revived plans for a giant immigration detention center in his suburban New Jersey district.

Just a few days after Kean returned to work after a months-long bout with depression, DHS officials said in a court...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The state LGBTQ+ Democratic Caucus has snubbed two prominent South Florida allies, opting not to endorse U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Lois Frankel for reelection.

Their primary opponents didn’t get endorsed either. But the non-endorsements of Broward’s Wasserman Schultz and Palm Beach County’s Frankel ...Read more

The Trump administration has planned a series of commemorative events as part of its Freedom 250 initiative to celebrate America’s 250th birthday. These commemorations, according to Chief of Protocol Monica Crowley, were intended to “bring the country back together” through a renewed sense of patriotism, national unity and civic pride.<...Read more

MIAMI — Two candidates vying to succeed South Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson sparred over who accepted campaign donations from a firm that helped operate the recently closed Everglades immigration detention center, known as Alligator Alcatraz.

On Monday, state Sen. Shevrin Jones released a campaign video slamming his opponent, County ...Read more

As a student, I was taught that politics is a contest of ideas. Experience has shown me otherwise.

In a recent New York Times interview with Ezra Klein, conservative activist Chris Rufo captured this reality succinctly: “While we should have the facts on our side, and while we should use logic, by itself, it’s insufficient. Politics ...Read more

Four years ago, Palm Beach County prosecutors charged a local chiropractor with practicing medicine with a suspended license amid allegations of inappropriate contact with patients.

The chiropractor, Hamed Kian, pleaded not guilty and took his case to trial. Like thousands of similarly charged defendants, he went before a jury of six people.

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Even Chicken Little might be embarrassed by the hysterics of congressional Democrats over health care.

Cast your mind back to last year. Democrats forced a 43-day government shutdown. While Republicans have majorities in both houses, they needed Democratic votes to break a Senate filibuster. In exchange for funding the government, Democrats ...Read more

On May 22, 1856, Preston Brooks strode into the United States Senate chamber and beat Sen. Charles Sumner unconscious with a cane. Brooks, a South Carolina congressman, was retaliating for a speech Sumner had given condemning slavery and personally insulting a relative of Brooks.

Though lasting only a minute, the beating had far-...Read more

Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, the United States has ramped up military, economic and political interventions in Latin America.

Nowhere were those three factors more clear than the U.S. abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January 2026. Since then, the Trump administration has used a mix of ...Read more

President Donald Trump plans to support a Russia sanctions bill championed by the late Senator Lindsey Graham, according to a White House official, a move that would intensify pressure on the Kremlin to end its war in Ukraine.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the matter. Trump’s backing would be a major win for Ukraine,...Read more

A judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was a “bad faith” attempt to manipulate the judicial process and barred him and his administration from citing its supposed settlement in any future regulatory or judicial proceedings.

Monday’s 56-page decision by U.S. District Judge Kathleen ...Read more