A high-stakes court case challenging the constitutionality of Kansas abortion restrictions should be retried, the attorney general’s office argued in a filing this week.

The question is whether the filing was made in time for a Johnson County judge to weigh it on its merits or if Kris Kobach’s office missed the deadline for requesting a new...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Republican Attorney General Russell Coleman filed a lawsuit Thursday against Mayday Health for advertising pills for medical abortions within Kentucky.

The lawsuit, which was filed in Logan Circuit Court, alleges Mayday Health is in violation of the Kentucky’s Consumer Protection Act and asks the organization to stop ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Democrat Marni Von Wilpert is narrowly leading Republican Jim Desmond in the hotly contested race for an open congressional seat in San Diego's North County area, a new poll conducted for The San Diego Union-Tribune finds.

But her lead amounts to a statistical tie, and the candidates’ close race appears to buck a trend of broad ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As anger mounts over the impacts of data centers, Republicans are wrestling with legislation that would address concerns over increased electricity and water demand that many voters associate with higher utility bills. But it’s not yet clear if any solution can move in the now-shortened September work period before House members...Read more

WASHINGTON — Those who’ve fought on Capitol Hill to rein in social media platforms see last week’s settlement between Meta and state attorneys general not as a final destination, but as a roadmap to what’s possible. Privacy and First Amendment advocates are worried they’re right.

The settlement comes as the House and Senate have taken...Read more

WASHINGTON — More broadband deployment funding could be headed to states to serve locations missed in earlier rounds of a $42 billion federal grant program.

The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced Thursday that it plans to accept new proposals from states under the Broadband Equity, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Wild horses roaming the untamed West have become a symbol of the American frontier. But through gaps in existing policy, many still find themselves in slaughter pipelines across both the southern and northern borders each year.

Advocates are calling on Congress to change that and codify protections for wild mustangs and burros ...Read more

In August, we reached another grim milestone in the United States: Two deaths from measles were confirmed in Pennsylvania. These losses are a painful reminder that measles is still deadly and that the consequences of falling vaccination rates are measured in people’s lives. For pediatricians, the lives of our patients—children and babies—...Read more

As a businessman, Donald Trump often cut corners, broke promises, and made bad deals. Now that he has the power of the U.S. government at his disposal, the submission of Republicans in Congress, and a pliant U.S. Supreme Court, the only difference is the scale of the abuse, corruption, and foolishness he brings to his ventures.

Late Friday, the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A congressional subcommittee sent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass a letter this week asking her to testify at a Washington hearing focused on fraud and failure in the region’s homelessness system.

U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), chair of the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, said in his four-page letter that ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — House Republicans are scrapping the last two weeks the chamber was scheduled to be in session before the midterm elections.

Under the revised schedule announced Thursday, the House will return for votes the evening of Monday, Sept. 14, a week after Labor Day, for what is now expected to be only a one-week session before ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Thursday construction work would begin on President Donald Trump’s proposed memorial arch, as the administration proceeds with a project that has drawn backlash over its size and location.

“We are preparing to start, over the next two-week period, the excavation work necessary,” Burgum ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Some Republicans are slowly warming to the idea of raising payroll taxes on upper-income households to shore up Social Security.

Rep. Lloyd K. Smucker of Pennsylvania, a top candidate to lead House Budget Committee Republicans in the next Congress, said Thursday that raising the cap on income subject to Social Security payroll ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed to come to Alaska before the November election to help boost the candidacy of Republican U.S. Sen. Dan S. Sullivan.

The incumbent senator is in a closely watched race with former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, a Democrat. It's one of a few races across the country that could determine control of the Senate in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Elon Musk is back.

The richest man in the world, who was laser-focused on delivering Pennsylvania for President Donald Trump in 2024, is wielding his wallet in the Keystone State once again to support Republicans in three swing congressional districts ahead of the midterms.

America PAC, Musk’s super PAC, has contributed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let the Postal Service enforce new rules for mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterm elections, a move that some states have warned would wreak havoc as they prepare to send ballots to voters in the coming days.

The Justice Department filed an emergency request on ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A federal appeals court has paused a decision that would have prevented Idaho officials from enforcing the state’s abortion ban against a specific doctor when pregnancy threatened a woman’s health or put her at risk for death from self-harm.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ordered a stay of an injunction that U...Read more

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said he’s open to easing the ban on wearing sneakers in the Capitol’s ornate House Speaker’s Lobby if Democrats win control of the chamber in the midterm congressional elections.

Asked if he would give the green light to more casual footwear, the House Democratic leader suggested he is firmly in the pro-kicks camp.

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For much of the past 25 years, each anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks has arrived with signs and stickers reminding people to “never forget.”

I have always felt unsure about what those words mean. For those of us who were alive in 2001, forgetting the day itself is almost impossible.

I remember the shock and fear, the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. House candidate Michael Bouchard this week released his first video ad since winning the GOP primary in a suburban Detroit swing district a month earlier.

The ad, titled "Jump," features the former Army paratrooper leaping from a plane and making a direct-to-camera appeal that he will "lead the fight" against ...Read more