WASHINGTON — A five-week wait on a crucial Senate vote on major cryptocurrency legislation has opened wide a window of opportunity for both advocates and opponents of the measure, which would flesh out in greater detail a regulatory framework for the still-nascent industry’s U.S. operations.

Just before the Senate adjourned for its summer ...Read more

Senator Dianne Feinstein's visible decline in her final years in office. Senator Lindsey Graham's sudden death. Senator Mitch McConnell's own recent hospitalization, and his halting explanation of it afterward. Three senators, three separate incidents, no obvious connection between them, except that the saga of these three senators is really one...Read more

The nation just learned that last month, when we thought President Donald Trump had fled his Qatari-donated luxury plane for the relative safety of a proper Air Force One, he was actually on a third plane out of Turkey. Fearing an Iranian assassination attempt, military and security officials had secreted him off the official aircraft and onto ...Read more

The rise of Donald Trump could have been a plus for Harley-Davidson, given that many of its longtime customers are proud fans of the Republican president. When the GOP held its National Convention in Harley’s hometown of Milwaukee two summers ago, Republican delegates streamed in by the busload to the local Harley-Davidson Museum.

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San Diego’s Democratic congressional delegation on Monday requested an investigation into the monthslong deployment of the locally based USS Abraham Lincoln following reports of sailors living in deplorable conditions while serving on the longest consecutive stretch at sea without a port call in modern U.S. military history.

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WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee announced Monday that it is investigating Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez of Los Angeles for alleged sexual misconduct.

The committee said it is investigating allegations that Gomez, 51, engaged in "inappropriate sexual contact with a House staffer," according to a statement released by the committee's ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With less than three months to go before Election Day, control of both chambers of Congress remains in play.

While Democrats lack many guaranteed pickups, there continues to be growing softness or vulnerability for Republicans on the outskirts of the House and Senate battleground. President Donald Trump’s low job approval ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department plans to send 1,000 monitors to watch voting during the midterm elections in November, a historic figure for a Republican administration, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said.

Dhillon, who oversees DOJ’s civil rights division, said the monitors’ job will be to observe whether elections are ...Read more

A 16-year-old lifeguard, whose viral video rescue of a boy at a Santa Cruz beach last month drew widespread praise, met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday afternoon.

Ryder Williams, 16, met with Trump at the Oval Office, after the president announced that Ryder would receive a “High Civilian Honor” for the rescue.

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Rep. Jimmy Gomez, who is seeking reelection to a Los Angeles-area House seat, is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee over allegations of sexual misconduct, including allegedly “engaging in inappropriate sexual contact with a House staffer.”

Gomez, in a statement, acknowledged making “personal mistakes” in the past but ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Democratic Gov. Josh Stein vetoed a controversial elections bill on Monday that would have cut the early voting period for primary elections, among a suite of other Republican-backed changes.

At a ceremony at the Executive Mansion, Stein was joined by Democratic lawmakers, voting rights activists and students as he vetoed the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court for a second time rejected President Donald Trump’s request to overturn a jury finding that he sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll.

The rebuff leaves intact a $5 million award that Carroll collected after the high court’s June 29 refusal to take up Trump’s appeal. The president had ...Read more

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — President Donald Trump is coming to Myrtle Beach to stump for Republican U.S. Sen. Darline Graham in her runoff primary election against Congressman Ralph Norman.

Details about when and where the event will be held haven’t been announced, but the South Carolina Republican Party announced Monday that Trump would make a ...Read more

Zambia’s president widened his lead among voters with over half of electoral constituencies counted, moving closer to extending his rule over the copper-rich southern African nation for a second term.

Hakainde Hichilema won 1,544,140 votes in 135 of the country’s 226 constituencies announced by the Electoral Commission of Zambia late on ...Read more

Zambia’s president maintained his lead among voters with nearly half of electoral constituencies counted, moving closer to extending his rule over the copper-rich southern African nation for a second term.

Hakainde Hichilema won 1,056,812 votes in 105 of the country’s 226 constituencies announced by the Electoral Commission of Zambia on ...Read more

U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche defended Jeanine Pirro for dismissing a federal vandalism case in a decision that angered President Donald Trump, saying the top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., should be judged fairly.

Blanche, a former personal lawyer for Trump who was sworn in last week as head of the Justice Department, took Pirro’s side...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In what media experts are calling a threat to free speech, bogus copyright complaints have resulted in the scrubbing of dozens of online stories that mention congressional candidate Michael Carbonara from Google search results weeks ahead of the Tuesday primary election.

The removal of these stories underscores ...Read more

Zambia’s president maintained an early lead in elections in which he’s seeking to extend his rule of the copper-rich southern African nation.

Hakainde Hichilema garnered 438,708 votes in 49 of the country’s 226 constituencies announced by the Electoral Commission of Zambia late Saturday. His closest rival, opposition leader Brian ...Read more

BOSTON — Calls for the excommunication of Gov. Maura Healey are mounting after she signed a bill removing restrictions on abortion access — though the Archdiocese of Boston has not yet stated how it will respond to the demands.

While church leaders have condemned the new law as “gravely immoral,” the Archdiocese has not declared whether...Read more