President Donald Trump’s main outside political group, MAGA Inc., has amassed more than $300 million heading into November’s midterm elections. It’s just not clear he’s willing to tap that fortune to keep vulnerable Republicans in Congress.

With public frustration over the Iran war adding to mounting GOP hurdles, Trump’s unprecedented...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The list of candidates running for Los Angeles city and school board offices is set, with a number of incumbents facing what could be competitive primary elections on June 2.

Fourteen Angelenos have qualified to run for mayor, including incumbent Karen Bass, City Councilmember Nithya Raman and former reality TV star Spencer ...Read more

A surprise guest appeared at a recent campaign rally for Viktor Orban’s party in eastern Hungary: a Ukrainian prisoner of war freed from Moscow’s captivity.

How he got there illustrates the way in which Russian President Vladimir Putin has tried to help the Hungarian prime minister survive next month’s election.

Orban has frequently ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The former federal attorney who proclaimed “this job sucks” in a courtroom amid Operation Metro Surge is now running for Congress as a Democrat.

Julie Le made national headlines for her Feb. 3 outburst before U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell, who was demanding answers as to why the federal government missed deadlines to ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho lawmakers are trying to strengthen the state’s “abortion trafficking” law after a legal challenge.

The law bans people from helping minors get an abortion in a state where it’s legal without a parent’s consent.

Gov. Brad Little signed the law in 2023, the first legislative session after the U.S. Supreme Court ...Read more

President Donald Trump mocked Iran’s new leader on Friday as “damaged” and shrugged off the historic threat to the world’s oil supply as the Middle East war shows few signs of winding down.

With the conflict set to enter a third week, Trump dismissed Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei as only “alive in some form” after the newly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The silence from the Kentucky crowd, many wearing “Make America Great Again” gear, was deafening.

The friendly audience in the commonwealth’s 4th District already had booed loudly at President Donald Trump’s mention of “Barack Hussein Obama,” with emphasis on the 44th president’s middle name. It would later howl as ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice has begun connecting its push to obtain sensitive personal data on millions of voters to whether the upcoming midterm elections will be fair and secure, laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to potentially cast doubt on the results.

The Justice Department has sued 29 states and the District of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House and Senate Armed Services panels have yet to be briefed on the costs of the Iran war, members and aides said Thursday.

This week, Pentagon officials gave the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee an estimate of $11.3 billion for the war’s first week, a figure first reported Wednesday by The New York Times.

The ...Read more

Headlines from the war in Iran are changing by the hour as the operation intensifies. That’s why it’s disturbing that Congress decided to sit on the sidelines and watch things unfold instead of exercising its power.

Among the developments since the Republican-led Congress decided against resolutions that would have asserted their power to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — On paper, Reps. Jimmy Panetta and Tracey Mann don’t seem like they’d agree on much. A Democrat representing California’s Central Coast and a Republican whose district spans half of Kansas make for an unlikely duo.

But the pair are on shared turf as they co-captain the Mean Machine, the members’ team for the Congressional ...Read more

WASHINGTON — By the time Chris Deluzio first arrived in Iraq, the pretext for the war had faded away long beforehand.

It was 2009, years after the assertion that Saddam Hussein’s regime possessed weapons of mass destruction proved to be false. Deluzio — a Thornburg, Pa., native who’d resolved to join the Navy even before the Sept. 11, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has asserted for months that its “bargain” version of the federal $42.5 billion grant program to expand access to broadband internet would save taxpayers money. That made states and their representatives in Congress nervous that funds left over after deployment proposals would be clawed back.

Under ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration on Thursday levied attacks at Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul over the immigration status of a repeatedly deported Honduran man now accused of shoving two straphangers from a subway platform onto the tracks below.

ICE asked unspecified law enforcement agencies to detain Bairon Hernandez, who is ...Read more

DETROIT — When U.S. Steel's CEO entered the Oval Office in February 2025, one of the first things President Donald Trump told him was that his predecessor, Joe Biden, had copied him, as he was against Japan-based Nippon Steel Corp.'s acquisition to buy the Pittsburgh metal manufacturer first.

"So that's how the meeting started," David Burritt...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge dismissed the bulk of the Gateway Development Commission’s suit over the Trump administration’s refusal to pay for the Hudson River Tunnel, because the funding has been temporarily restored by another court.

Siding with attorneys for the U.S. Department of Transportation, Judge Richard Hertling ruled in the ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn put to rest speculation that he may step back from Congress and formally kicked off his campaign for an 18th term representing South Carolina's 6th Congressional District.

Clyburn, of Santee, is the lone Democratic member of the South Carolina federal delegation. Filing to run for office in South ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats and voter advocacy groups are increasingly warning that Trump administration policies and actions could curtail voting in the midterm elections when it comes to changes on who can cast ballots and when it will count.

President Donald Trump and federal agencies have taken several steps over the past year they say will ...Read more

Microsoft is asking a federal court to block the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic’s AI technology as a national security risk, tying the two companies together in a legal battle with the Trump administration.

In a legal filing Tuesday, Microsoft challenged Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s move last week to label Anthropic as a supply ...Read more