SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The U.S. political class judges candidates too harshly for past bad behavior, discouraging people from running for office, Hunter Biden said in a forthcoming episode of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast, “This Is Gavin Newsom.”

In a four-minute clip obtained by The Sacramento Bee, Biden referred to reports that one of ...Read more

CHICAGO — Hillary Clinton used an audience at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s annual convention to lash out at the Trump administration Thursday, saying Democrats must combat a “revolution to turn the clock back,” a revolution that she said is eroding the building blocks of civil and voting rights established decades ago.

Clinton, a former...Read more

MIAMI — A half-dozen prominent academic and political figures filed into Miami federal court on Thursday to pledge the value of their homes to help secure a proposed $7 million bond for their friend, former Congressman David Rivera, in a bid to free him from jail.

But a judge, who detained Rivera in early May after he was found guilty of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened a federal government takeover of Washington, DC, if self-described democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George wins the city’s Democratic mayoral primary.

“I wouldn’t like it, and maybe we take back Washington, run it on the federal basis,” Trump told reporters at the White House on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House did not pass a short-term extension of a powerful surveillance tool Thursday morning as members headed out of town for a recess, all but ensuring the spy power’s statutory authority would lapse going into the weekend.

The vote to reject a reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act now ...Read more

NEW YORK — Like legions of young adults before her, Claire Valdez moved to New York in 2015 looking for a better life and a creative outlet for her budding career as a visual artist.

Valdez quickly realized she had to find an apartment, get a job and pay the rent (and hopefully change the world, too).

A decade later, the 36-year-old single ...Read more

Contrary to any of the polite things Kimberly Guilfoyle has said about Donald Trump Jr. leaving her for Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson, America’s ambassador to Greece was privately “seething,” according to a new report, and reached out to Anderson’s billionaire ex-fiancé to work together to break up the new couple.

That’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso boasts of living just a stone’s throw away from where he was born and raised in south Williamsburg.

Four decades later, Reynoso points to a potent track record of activism and progressive political victories like few others, forged from countless meetings in public housing projects, ...Read more

More than any other U.S. president in decades, Donald Trump has aggressively pursued military interventions in Latin America.

On Jan. 3, 2026, U.S. special forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on charges of narco-terrorism. In the months before the operation, U.S. Southern Command began targeting small, fast-moving ...Read more

On June 6, 1966, on a stretch of Highway 51 just south of Hernando, Mississippi, a portly, middle-aged white man named Aubrey Norvell stepped out of a gully, lifted his shotgun and fired three shots at James Meredith, a Black civil rights activist and Air Force veteran.

Famous for integrating the University of Mississippi four years ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Biden-era push to remove certain social media posts about COVID-19 and the 2020 election and more recent pressure by the Trump administration against TV broadcasters have brought together a bipartisan Senate duo to try and prevent indirect government censorship.

Senate Commerce Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-...Read more

WASHINGTON — With their sixth consecutive win, Republicans have secured a baseball dynasty, at least on the congressional level.

The GOP clobbered Democrats 11-2 at Wednesday night’s Congressional Baseball Game, buoyed by bad fielding and hot base running.

Conservatives kept a steady hand on the tiller and ran the exact same starting ...Read more

NEW YORK — The three rival congressional candidates in the NY-07 Democratic primary agree on two things: President AOC in 2028 and the Knicks in 5.

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Assemblywoman Claire Valdez and City Councilwoman Julie Won all vowed to back Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the next presidential election, even ...Read more

BALTIMORE — U.S. Rep. April McClain Delaney and Democratic challenger David Trone are filling the airwaves with attack ads in their expensive congressional primary race, but have skipped a series of candidate forums across the district that organizers say give voters opportunities to hear directly from candidates.

The wealthy candidates, who ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Despite warnings from the architect of the Capitol about a dire need to renovate the Rayburn House Office Building, lawmakers say they still aren’t fully sold on the project, which could last until 2045 and cost $9 billion.

Even as AOC Thomas Austin argues that delays would only come with more dangers and heftier costs, it’s...Read more

MIAMI — The 10-week sprint to become the Democratic nominee to succeed South Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson is officially underway after two leading candidates — both pastors’ sons — chose the preacher’s pulpit to pitch themselves as deeply rooted in the community and the best standard-bearer of her legacy.

County commissioner...Read more

Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Nikki Fried is the latest in a chorus of voices criticizing U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the unfolding backlash to her decision to seek reelection in a Black plurality district after Republicans redrew Florida’s congressional map.

“I am disappointed by the congresswoman’s refusal to engage in ...Read more

The Wall Street Journal asked a judge to dismiss President Donald Trump’s revised $10 billion defamation lawsuit over an article on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, arguing that the new complaint isn’t an improvement on the original version that was tossed out.

Trump’s revised lawsuit still fails to explain how the article — about a “...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump got his mojo back with Republican primary voters Tuesday following a setback in Iowa last week when his preferred candidate lost the GOP contest for governor.

Trump-backed House candidates notched wins in South Carolina and Nevada. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham overcame a primary challenge from a ...Read more

Congressional lawmakers grilled Chicago Public Schools CEO Macquline King in an hourslong hearing Wednesday, pressing her and two other superintendents on policies supporting transgender students and other diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Members of the Republican-led U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee echoed the ...Read more