NEW ULM, Minn. – There are not many Democrats that Brian Krosch cares for.

Asked whether any DFL politicians were popular in the New Ulm area, the Army veteran, who volunteers as a bartender at the local American Legion, considered the question.

“They’re all dead,” he said with a shrug, pointing to the Hubert Humphreys of yesteryear.

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President Donald Trump on Thursday was facing major questions about his cozy financial and political ties to Jensen Huang after the disgraced Nvidia CEO resigned over reports of affairs with a fellow executive and an alleged Chinese spy.

Critics, including Democrats who will control the next Congress, are asking if Trump looked the other way ...Read more

MIAMI — Alina Garcia, Miami-Dade’s elections supervisor, now has a cartoon avatar who stars in a tax-funded coloring book about democracy and, this fall, looked out from lapel pins that were distributed to poll workers.

Like Garcia, “Super Ali” has long blonde hair, but Super Ali has a red cape and a star-spangled ballot box for a body....Read more

WASHINGTON — Supporters of the FirstNet program that provides emergency communications for first-responders still see hope for reauthorization this year, despite continued disagreements over what changes, if any, should be made to how the program is governed.

A House-passed reauthorization bill would shift authority toward the Commerce ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s postelection statements about working with Democrats have presented the incoming majority with a kaleidoscope to decipher, but some Democratic lawmakers have their doubts.

On the one hand, the Republican president has contended that he can work with House and Senate Democrats after the new Congress is ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal prosecutors filed a criminal case against a security guard briefly detailed to U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar in what his lawyer said was part of a larger effort to get him under oath to obtain information about the congresswoman.

Abdullahi Mohamud Mohamed, who was briefly assigned as Omar’s security detail on a 2022 trip to ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rep. Doris Matsui’s campaign appeared to endorse a call to deport her congressional opponent Mai Vang by reacting with a heart emoji on a Facebook message — the campaign has since called it accidental.

The campaign deleted the message and its reaction on Wednesday afternoon after questions from The Sacramento Bee. The...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — With thousands more votes still to be counted, Republican Rep. Nick Begich maintained a solid eight-point lead over independent challenger Bill Hill on Tuesday evening in the race for Alaska's lone U.S. House seat.

Hill, a retired educator and fisherman from Southwest Alaska, said in a statement last week that all votes ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., enters his final weeks in Congress, he is one step closer to another vote on legislation related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A discharge petition led by Massie aimed at extracting more files from the Justice Department has now received enough support to force a vote on the House floor. ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen was among 11 Democrats who missed Tuesday’s high-stakes vote on whether to move forward with impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, an effort that was ultimately blocked by House Republicans.

Fellow Democrats lambasted the absences, which allowed Republicans to block the impeachment effort through a procedural...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House's top lawyer has warned House Democrats that their planned investigations into President Donald Trump could expose them to criminal action, a threat that serves as an early sign of how combative the administration intends to be once Democrats take control of the House in January.

White House counsel Will Scharf ...Read more

In the years leading up to his conviction and sentencing in a London Court on rape and sexual assault charges, comedian-turned-YouTube conspiracy monger Russell Brand enjoyed being welcomed into the elite inner circle of President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement.

That included becoming friends with Trump’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., who is ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is standing by her controversial bill expanding abortion up to the day of birth, as well as her emergency declaration last week to immediately implement it, as the Boston Archdiocese and Catholic leaders across Massachusetts condemn the move.

Healey utilized her executive authority late last week to block a citizen ...Read more

Rep. Jim Clyburn, a Democrat and South Carolina’s senior member of Congress, felt the “blue wave” coming.

He felt it on the road in places like Mississippi and Michigan. And he felt it in the Palmetto State on Nov. 3 as he rolled up the largest margin of any South Carolinian running for statewide or congressional office — 69% to his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration signaled it would respond aggressively to a Democratic-led Congress with a letter this week threatening to prosecute lawmakers for oversight efforts.

The letter from White House Counsel Will Scharf sent Monday to House Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Robert Garcia, D-Calif., argued that ...Read more

Rep. Laura Gillen says she missed the vote to impeach controversial Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth because she was stuck in traffic due to a police roadblock near the Capitol.

Like at least two other Democrats, the Long Island lawmaker says she planned to vote in favor of moving ahead with impeachment of Hegseth and will do so if and when the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House's top lawyer is raising the possibility of criminal investigations into House Democrats, arguing that the inquiries they plan to open into President Donald Trump and administration officials could themselves break the law.

Will Scharf, the White House counsel, made the warning in a letter dated Monday to Rep. ...Read more

BALTIMORE — With the 2028 presidential election on the horizon, Maryland’s elections administrator wants lawmakers to use next year’s legislative session to address prediction markets and strengthen protections for election judges, and to revisit a proposal regulating the influence of social media algorithms on elections.

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It’s not a stretch of the imagination to say that last week’s midterm election was one the most embarrassing moments of President Donald Trump’s political life. At the time of writing, Democrats have flipped 44 House seats and seven Senate seats, earning a commanding majority in both houses of Congress for the first time since 2020. The ...Read more