WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a challenge to President Donald Trump’s claims that an “invasion” at the southern border can be used to deny asylum claims by refugees.

The Trump administration had asked the justices to review a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that held ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders have skipped a bipartisan deliberative process for recommending the next comptroller general to head the Government Accountability Office, as lawmakers prepare to consider a nomination for the post from President Donald Trump.

Sources said Trump is planning to nominate Eric Ueland, who currently serves as ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Friday it will rule on President Donald Trump’s ban on asylum claims at the southern border, testing a key part of his hard-line policy on immigration.

At issue is a clash between the promise of asylum for those fleeing persecution and the reality of a border overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands who...Read more

DENVER — Democrat Eileen Laubacher unseated U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District as final vote tallies updated Friday, 10 days after the polls closed.

The Associated Press called the race for Laubacher, a retired Naval rear admiral, at 12:53 p.m. in Colorado’s most right-leaning district. The vote showed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Friday it will rule on President Donald Trump’s ban on asylum claims at the southern border, testing a key part of his hard-line policy on immigration.

At issue is a clash between the promise of asylum for those fleeing persecution and the reality of a border overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands who...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, an outspoken conservative and Second Amendment provocateur, lost her bid for a fourth term to Democrat Eileen Laubacher, a retired rear admiral in the Navy.

Laubacher was leading 48.8 percent to 47.9%, a margin of 3,441 votes, when The Associated Press called the race on Friday.

The red-hued 4th ...Read more

DENVER — Democrat Eileen Laubacher unseated U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District as final vote-counting ended Friday, 10 days after the polls closed.

The Associated Press called the race for Laubacher, a retired Naval rear admiral, at 12:53 p.m. in Colorado’s most right-leaning district. The vote showed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — North Carolina voters decimated their current congressional delegation, electing at least seven new members to the next Congress, and potentially losing 58 years of collective experience.

“Congress runs on seniority, and we just lost a lot of seniority from the North Carolina congressional delegation,” said Chris Cooper, a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The resignation of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Thursday did little to quell bipartisan demands from Congress for an accounting of potential national security fallout from his affair with an alleged Chinese spy and talk of adding tougher chip export controls to the annual defense authorization bill.

Huang admitted on Sunday to ...Read more

MIAMI — A Miami man who threatened to execute Secretary of State Marco Rubio and former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in a series of social media posts was sentenced to two years in federal prison after investigators discovered disturbing writings in his home, including a note about shooting Cubans in the United States.

“Both ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With stopgap funding set to expire in less than a month, Senate Republican appropriators Thursday unveiled a roughly $5.3 billion draft fiscal 2027 Legislative Branch spending bill that would boost security funding and sidestep contentious debates over a key watchdog.

The proposal would provide $965 million for Capitol Police, a ...Read more

During the 2026 election cycle, Republicans enacted a series of gerrymanders – a form of partisan redistricting – in a handful of states to give them a disproportionate edge over Democrats in their congressional delegations. Democrats responded with a successful redistricting effort in California and an unsuccessful one in Virginia.

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FORT LEADERDALE, Fla. — A South Florida resident has begun serving a two-year federal prison sentence for threatening posts he made online against Trump administration officials Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem earlier this year.

Jon Christopher Enriquez, 47, of Miami, pleaded guilty in August to three counts of transmitting threats through ...Read more

Former Vice President Mike Pence is blaming President Donald Trump’s economic policies, foreign policy and the “perception of self-dealing and corruption” to blame for the nationwide success of Democrats in the midterm elections, saying the Republican Party has “lost our way.”

Pence made the comments in an exclusive one-on-one ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Michigan lawmaker who chairs a U.S. House select committee on U.S. competition with China is calling on former Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang to testify before Congress.

“We are in discussions, and we want this to happen, hopefully voluntarily. But it's important, whether it's voluntarily or subpoena, that this take place ...Read more

Donald Trump Jr. is leaving his role as an adviser to Kalshi Inc., ending a role that has created political headaches for the prediction market platform.

The departure comes as Democrats take power in Congress with promises to scrutinize the Trump family’s business ties to prediction markets and the crypto industry.

Trump Jr. has been an ...Read more

NEW ULM, Minn. – There are not many Democrats that Brian Krosch cares for.

Asked whether any DFL politicians were popular in the New Ulm area, the Army veteran, who volunteers as a bartender at the local American Legion, considered the question.

“They’re all dead,” he said with a shrug, pointing to the Hubert Humphreys of yesteryear.

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President Donald Trump on Thursday was facing major questions about his cozy financial and political ties to Jensen Huang after the disgraced Nvidia CEO resigned over reports of affairs with a fellow executive and an alleged Chinese spy.

Critics, including Democrats who will control the next Congress, are asking if Trump looked the other way ...Read more

MIAMI — Alina Garcia, Miami-Dade’s elections supervisor, now has a cartoon avatar who stars in a tax-funded coloring book about democracy and, this fall, looked out from lapel pins that were distributed to poll workers.

Like Garcia, “Super Ali” has long blonde hair, but Super Ali has a red cape and a star-spangled ballot box for a body....Read more