The two men seeking to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom as California’s next governor will debate before a prime-time audience Wednesday evening in what is expected to be voters’ only chance to see Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton spar one-on-one before the November election.

A race that before the June primary drew national ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Under a light rain on Sunday at the Australian ambassador's residence in Washington, CNN hosted its third annual tennis tournament, the Kangaroo Cup, pitting Beltway journalists against administration officials. The event aims to inject some levity into an historically adversarial relationship, reminding both sides of the spirit ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators is pushing the Commerce Department to release long-delayed guidance for states seeking to use remaining funds from a $42 billion broadband grant program.

In a letter first shared with CQ Roll Call, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., with Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine; Angus King, I-Vt...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate appropriators began plotting ways to defend their power of the purse Monday after President Donald Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in appropriated funding without the approval of Congress.

The so-called pocket rescission to claw back funding, announced Friday night, drew immediate condemnation from ...Read more

The likely return to power of a separatist political party in Quebec is set to create a new challenge for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, just as he tries to hold the country together in the midst of a trade war with the U.S.

Residents of the French-speaking region will vote on Oct. 5, and surveys show they’re poised to choose the Parti ...Read more

In President Donald Trump’s world, public service pays better than being a real estate mogul.

Trump has been lining his pockets since he returned to the White House. His sons, Eric and Donald Jr., have been cashing in, too. So has his wife, son-in-law Jared Kushner, and other cronies in the Trump administration.

In just his first year back ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Most Republicans who made their peace with the norm-busting presidency of Donald Trump did it privately. Michele Tafoya did it in front of a microphone.

Before she was a candidate for the U.S. Senate, Tafoya was a media personality with 30 years in sports broadcasting, followed by work as a podcast host.

Tafoya has a public ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court returns from summer break Oct. 5, 2026, and begins hearing a new year of cases.

Soon after what’s known as the “first Monday in October” among court watchers, we will start to see stories in the media about something called “originalism.”

Originalism is the judicial philosophy followed by most ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent the weekend using Air Force One to buzz the tower at major sporting events after last week’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping and as the Senate takes a final vote on a college athletics bill the chamber has spent weeks on.

He is slated to emphasize domestic issues as the midterm elections ...Read more

Artificial intelligence dominated the opening of the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 22, 2026. Ahead of the meeting, 20 nations released a statement requesting “human direction, oversight and control” of AI. The U.S. was not among them.

This followed several calls from within the industry itself: Earlier in September, ...Read more

The White House is using public funds to air a new ad that urges support for President Donald Trump’s right-wing agenda and is virtually identical to one that he used in his 2024 presidential campaign.

With the midterm congressional elections looming in just five weeks, the Trump administration has spent more than $300,000 and counting in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senators are plotting their exit for the fall midterm campaign season, but their work on Capitol Hill isn’t quite finished yet.

The first vote of what’s expected to be the Senate’s final workweek before the elections will be Monday on passage of a bipartisan bill to set rules of the road for name, image and likeness ...Read more

President Donald Trump has a loyalty problem. Actually, he has two of them.

The first concerns where his own loyalties lie. Consider these questions: Has he been loyal to the oath he took to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution? Does he respect the separation of powers and the limits on his authority as president? Does he understand that ...Read more

In a state that has become a Republican bastion — where the GOP has been in the governor’s mansion for nearly 30 years, holds a supermajority in the legislature and loves that President Donald Trump calls Florida home — Democrats are not used to optimism.

But in 2026, amid a toxic national environment for the GOP, Republican campaigns are...Read more

DENVER — Solid majorities of voters on both sides of the political aisle in Colorado’s tightly split 8th Congressional District favor stricter government regulations and tax incentives to combat environmental challenges like air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

That’s according to the latest poll results released Thursday by the ...Read more

Since the 2024 election, Democratic congressional candidates have reached a consensus about how to broadly discuss the border — make it secure — but they still lack a cohesive message about ICE.

Some advocate abolishing the agency, while others offer visions for how to rein it in and reform it.

Meanwhile, for Republicans, President Trump's...Read more

The proposed permanent U.S. military base in Poland, dubbed Fort Trump, will cost as much as 17 billion zloty ($4.4 billion) and could open as early as in 2029, according to a report from newspaper Rzeczpospolita.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in New York this week that Poland, a NATO member and a front-line state to Russia’s...Read more

MIAMI — President Donald Trump on Saturday condemned reports that Florida’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds distanced himself from the president by pulling prominent reference to his endorsement from the campaign’s website — and touted upcoming rallies in Florida to boost Donalds.

“Two Rallies are already scheduled in...Read more