WASHINGTON — As lawmakers clashed with a top Smithsonian official at a Tuesday hearing, they ping-ponged between small details — like items sold in the gift shop — and the loftiest American ideals.

Republicans accused Anthea M. Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, of trying to “rewrite” the country’s past ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — A fight over an embattled drug discount program is intensifying on Capitol Hill, as lawmakers weigh competing proposals to reshape the program amid escalating tensions between hospitals and drugmakers.

Lawmakers in both chambers have rolled out, or are planning to soon introduce, fresh proposals to alter the 340B program, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Independent voters’ skepticism of Donald Trump’s baseless claims about the 2020 presidential race and his contention that American elections are not secure are contributing to a broader trend of the key voting bloc abandoning the president ahead of November’s midterms.

Multiple polls conducted in recent weeks show ...Read more

WASHINGTON — An upcoming vote on reining in stock trading by members of Congress is serving as a painful reminder of what could have been for a bipartisan working group who hoped to ban stock ownership by lawmakers entirely.

Members who spent months working on the effort described lingering frustration this week as a bill backed by Republican...Read more

President Donald Trump returned to a familiar theme last week, delivering a prime-time address on election integrity which implied that many states allow those in the country illegally to vote. He called the system “dishonest” and even singled out Nevada.

Democrats responded that the president was trying to undermine faith in the upcoming ...Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Suzan DelBene of Medina spent a late September Friday in Seattle raising money for Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, the Democratic incumbent vying for a third term representing rural — and heavily Republican — Southwest Washington.

About a month later, according to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, ...Read more

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders believes discontent with the political establishment who he says hasn’t delivered for working class Americans will propel progressives into positions of power across the country — including Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan.

Sanders, an icon of the Democratic party’s progressive base, returned to Minneapolis on Monday to...Read more

The GOP’s congressional campaign arm announced Monday that it’s adding Tampa Bay’s 14th Congressional District to its target list of seats it wants to flip in the midterms.

Eight Republican candidates are vying in a primary to be the one to take on incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor of Tampa, whose once-blue district now excludes...Read more

Some of Kentucky’s federal delegation are criticizing President Donald Trump’s speech that doubled down on raising doubts about election integrity in the United States.

In a prime time address Thursday night, Trump announced he has declassified documents that reveal issues in America’s election system in the 2020 and 2018 elections, ...Read more

The Trump administration will not renew direct federal funding of community-based organizations that work on HIV prevention, according to multiple groups impacted by the freeze.

The move is the latest step in the administration’s push to eliminate funding for DEI-focused initiatives that help the LGBTQ community.

But this one directly ...Read more

President Donald Trump used a nationally televised address on July 16, 2026, to unveil a collection of declassified documents. He said these documents, which the White House posted online during the address, show serious vulnerabilities in American election systems, extensive Chinese acquisition of U.S. voter data, and an intelligence ...Read more

President Trump is admitting his luxe new Air Force One plane will be taken out of service for a new round of retrofitting.

After Trump was forced to ditch the Qatar-donated jet in Turkey over concerns about its safety, he told reporters that the Boeing 747 would need to be “maxed out," implying it must be upgraded to meet expectations to ...Read more

Voters in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District want more oversight and regulation of artificial intelligence — regardless of which major party they most align with, according to a recent poll conducted in the ultracompetitive district north of Denver.

The survey of 500 voters found remarkable unanimity between voters leaning left or right ...Read more

MIAMI — The National Republican Campaign Committee is adding Florida’s new 22nd District stretching across almost the whole of South Florida as a key target to keeping control of the U.S. House in November.

House Republicans’ main campaign fundraising group added the district to its target list Monday, shortly after Democrats also ...Read more

Thursday night, Donald Trump launched into a primetime TV diatribe rehashing his obsession with the idea that the 2020 election was stolen from him and that forthcoming elections must be made more “secure” in ways that ultimately keep eligible people from voting in a way that benefits him. This time around, he pointed to declassified ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Hoping for a few final wins before the midterms, Republicans are going for reconciliation — again. That’s partly because other legislative paths to President Donald Trump’s desk are disappearing.

They’ll spend a good chunk of this week on plans for a third round of the filibuster-proof budget process, this time for a $95 ...Read more

BEIRUT — President Donald Trump long railed against forever wars.

For years, whether as president or candidate, he flayed electoral opponents and previous presidents with his signature barbs, calling their entanglements a "complete waste of time" (Afghanistan), "the worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country" (Iraq) and "...Read more

Hazel Brannon Smith was almost certainly the most unpopular woman in Mississippi when she wrote an editorial in 1963 lambasting the racist White Citizens Councils in the Lexington Advertiser, a newspaper she owned.

“The hierarchy of rulers in this totalitarian-like organization permit no deviation from its official line – and ...Read more

Shortly before Independence Day, President Donald Trump suspended U.S. tariffs on fertilizer from Morocco after declaring that threats to domestic supplies of the product constituted a “national emergency.”

As Bloomberg News reported at the time, the action was intended to help farmers and consumers worried about Iran-related price hikes. ...Read more