WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring major changes to the way Americans vote suffered another courtroom defeat, this time in a suit brought by Democratic state attorneys general who disputed the government’s claims of widespread voter fraud.

Chief U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston on Wednesday issued a...Read more

WASHINGTON — New Jersey Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver urged a federal appeals court Wednesday to throw out the three-count indictment against her, arguing her arrest outside a federal immigration detention center last year interfered with her legislative duties.

In challenging the charges, McIver has argued that Trump administration officials...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would not sign the landmark housing bill Congress passed this week as scheduled, in a striking decision to jeopardize a rare bipartisan success in order to demand that lawmakers pass voter ID legislation.

It escalated tension between Trump and Senate Republicans, which had already neared ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — An ad targeting a candidate for the U.S. House is prompting new questions about state limits on the use of generative artificial intelligence in political ads, with the Michigan Bureau of Elections maintaining the state law does not apply to federal races.

Cheree De Golia of Lansing filed a complaint Tuesday with the Bureau ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Hours before President Donald Trump was scheduled to sign ​comprehensive housing legislation into law from the Capitol on Wednesday, he abruptly canceled the event, saying he won’t sign it until Congress passes a separate election security measure.

“Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would not sign the landmark housing bill Congress passed this week, in a striking decision to jeopardize a rare bipartisan success and an escalation in his battle with Senate Republicans over his favored voter ID legislation.

Trump demanded on Truth Social that Congress pass the SAVE ...Read more

NEW YORK — Rep. Hakeem Jeffries bristled Wednesday at the possibility he could face a leftist primary challenge after Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s slate of three progressive allies swept to big wins in the New York City congressional races.

The normally courtly House minority leader snapped at a Capitol Hill reporter who asked if he might wind up...Read more

Each June, the nation turns its attention to the U.S. Supreme Court as it hands down some of its most consequential decisions.

Long before a landmark Supreme Court ruling dominates the headlines, it is shaped by a highly structured legal process, much of which takes place out of public view. This procedure involves strict gatekeeping ...Read more

Two House Democrats from New York City lost their reelection bids Tuesday to challengers backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a sign that the 34-year-old’s political capital remains high six months into his term.

In the 10th District, based in Lower Manhattan and western Brooklyn, Brad Lander was leading Rep. Dan Goldman with 62% to ...Read more

NEW YORK — After throwing himself into a high-risk test of his political power, Mayor Zohran Mamdani emerged from primary day triumphant as all three of the candidates he backed posted impressive victories in New York congressional primaries.

Claire Valdez resoundingly defeated Antonio Reynoso by a whopping 26 points in the 7th District. ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday congratulated Mayor Zohran Mamdani on boosting three “Communist” allies to surprisingly decisive wins in contentious NYC Democratic congressional primaries.

Without letting on if he was joking, Trump said Mamdani deserves gushing positive news coverage for helping his favored candidates pull off a clean ...Read more

NEW YORK — Progressive challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier pulled off a shocking win over incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the Democratic primary battle in upper Manhattan’s NY-13 Congressional District, with Espaillat conceding the race just after 10:30 p.m. EDT in the deep-blue stronghold where Mayor Zohran Mamdani flexed his political...Read more

The Declaration of Independence, with its block of cursive letters scrawled onto parchment, looks like a relic from the distant past. Likewise, you might think the 27 grievances against King George III, his government and the British people listed in the body of the document would have little relevance to our lives today.

After all, ...Read more

Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori moved significantly closer to becoming Peru’s next president after an electoral tribunal on Tuesday rejected a challenge seeking to annul overseas votes, while new vote counts showed her lead over leftist rival Roberto Sánchez had grown beyond the number of ballots remaining to be counted.

With 99.79% of ...Read more

Spurred by the tornado that killed five people and caused about $1.6 billion of damage across St. Louis last year, U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell has a trio of disaster-related bills pending in the House.

Bell, a St. Louis Democrat, introduced legislation earlier this month that would require the federal government to make timely updates in its ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — Comprehensive housing legislation won overwhelming bipartisan support in the House on Tuesday, as lawmakers sent President Donald Trump a package both parties hope will help lower costs for what the Bureau of Labor Statistics says is the single largest expense U.S. households face.

The House voted 358-32 to clear the bill ...Read more

CEO Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire thanks to the initial public offering for his company SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer. Pundits have been debating whether anyone should own so much wealth. His defenders point to his successful companies and his many employees, many thousands of whom are now likely millionaires by virtue of ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume defeated his primary opponent, Baltimore City Councilman Mark Conway, clearing the way for the long-standing incumbent to potentially retain his seat that Democrats have held for over 70 years.

The incumbent beat Conway by nearly 60 percentage points, according to The Associated Press.

Mfume, who has represented Maryland...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House passed Congress' most significant housing legislation in decades on Tuesday, sending the bill to President Trump's desk — a bid by both parties to show midterm voters that they're paying attention to affordability concerns ahead of November's election.

The legislation, which the Senate passed Monday, aims to boost the...Read more