WASHINGTON — Congressional attendance was up in 2025, in spite of off-year elections, a number of members beset with health crises and the political turmoil that marked President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. In a Senate newly under Republican control and a House held by the slimmest of GOP majorities, lawmakers cast more votes ...Read more

CHICAGO — A crowded race in one of America’s bluest congressional districts has grown increasingly hostile, as candidates to succeed longtime U.S. Rep. Danny Davis battle to prove their anti-President Donald Trump bona fides while navigating national divisions within the Democratic Party that are driving the Chicago primary contest.

Davis�...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration started the first of several sweeping trade investigations that set the stage for new tariffs, the centerpiece of a push to replace levies struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer announced Wednesday that his office would begin a probe into more than...Read more

WASHINGTON — Amid an unpopular war with Iran and slumping poll numbers linked to a sluggish economy, President Donald Trump resorted to name-calling Wednesday in a bid to boost Ed Gallrein in his GOP primary against Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie.

Trump took a break from overseeing his 12-day-old bombardment of targets inside Iran to make a stop...Read more

MEXICO CITY — President Claudia Sheinbaum’s attempt to overhaul Mexico’s electoral system fell short of the needed support for approval in the lower house of Congress on Wednesday, marking the first legislative setback in her agenda of priority reforms.

The bill garnered 259 votes in favor, 234 against and one abstention, but well short ...Read more

HEBRON, Ky. — President Donald Trump wants Northern Kentucky voters to know that incumbent 4th Congressional District Rep. Thomas Massie has got to go.

While Trump’s stop in Hebron Wednesday was intended to focus on his message on affordability heading into this year’s midterm elections, the president’s speech often veered into the ...Read more

A state Senate committee voted Wednesday morning to move Michigan's regular primary election from August to May, a shift that could alter the political landscape in a battleground state.

Under current law, Michigan's primary, through which nominees for governor, U.S. Senate, U.S. House and seats in the Legislature are chosen by their parties' ...Read more

HEBRON, Ky. — President Donald Trump began his stop in Hebron on Wednesday with a focus on his message on affordability heading into this year’s midterm elections, the war in Iran and Kentucky’s loyalty to him.

The start of Trump’s speech was focused more on the economy, current affairs and the state of Kentucky.

“Thank you, and a ...Read more

An Iranian-linked group claimed responsibility Wednesday for a cyberattack against Michigan-based medical giant Stryker Corp., an incident that cybersecurity experts said could be one of unprecedented in size and scope.

A global outage afflicted the company in the early hours of Wednesday, with employees and contractors saying that the logo of ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Ala Stanford, a pediatric surgeon running in a crowded primary to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans in Congress, received a significant boost this week from a national group spending a staggering sum of money to promote her campaign.

The super PAC, called 314 Action Fund, is a progressive organization that backs “pro-...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It’s official: Lauderdale-by-the-Sea has signed off on a plan to honor President Donald Trump by putting his name on the easternmost stretch of Commercial Boulevard. It’s a proposal met with vocal opposition, red-capped enthusiasm and more than one declaration that surely local officials have higher priorities.

By ...Read more

The Continental Army’s winter encampment at Valley Forge, between December 1777 and June 1778, is the stuff of legend. Chased out of Philadelphia by the British Army, George Washington and over 12,000 American troops retreated to Valley Forge, where they spent six long months harried by hunger, disease and the bitter cold.

In this ...Read more

Despite the scale of its military assault on Iran, the Trump administration’s reasons for entering into war have been inconsistent and vague, from regime change to the destruction of nuclear weapons, preempting military action by Israel, or the more chilling decree of following “God’s divine plan.”

Politicians, pundits and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrat Shawn Harris and Clayton Fuller, a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump, were the top two finishers in Tuesday’s nonpartisan special election to fill GOP former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat. The pair will face each other in an April 7 runoff.

Harris, a former Army brigadier general and cattle farmer, ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis’ office has told lawmakers that he will delay his decision on whether to commute Tina Peters’ prison sentence until after the Colorado Court of Appeals issues a ruling in her case.

Polis’ staff members privately told some lawmakers late last week that the governor would wait, and House lawmakers were told of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As most Republicans avoided questions last month about allegations Rep. Tony Gonzales had an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide, three GOP women made their demands clear: their colleague has to go.

Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Nancy Mace of South Carolina and Anna Paulina Luna of Florida each used their social ...Read more

Anthropic PBC told a judge it could lose as much as billions of dollars in revenue this year and urged quick action on its request to block the Trump administration’s declaration of the company as a supply-chain risk after a blowup with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safety issues.

A lawyer for the startup made a case for urgency ...Read more

ATLANTA — In one of the most conservative congressional districts in the U.S., a special election to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has produced an unusual runoff: a Democrat facing a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump.

And as votes continue to be counted, the Democrat is ahead.

Democrat Shawn Harris, a retired Army ...Read more

You complain that Publix is expensive?

Try food shopping on the West Coast at a trendy grocery store with a weirdly unpronounceable name, Erewhon (Air-a-One), an anagram of “nowhere.” It was reportedly inspired by Samuel Butler’s 1872 dystopian novel of the same name.

Safe to say, BOGOs don’t exist at this high-end supermarket, where a...Read more