Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., released a framework for artificial intelligence regulation Wednesday that includes a major role for the federal government in setting safety standards and testing models for catastrophic risk.

The six-point framework, which does not include legislative text, stands in contrast ...Read more

U.S. Republican Sen. Thom Tillis is set to take on a new role at Davidson College after his time in the Senate.

Tillis will serve as a leader-in-residence with Davidson’s new D.G. and Harriet Wall Martin Institute for Public Good, the college announced Wednesday. Former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and Arab American Institute President James ...Read more

The Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully using government money to pay for advertisements lauding the president that have been airing on cable and broadcast television stations across the U.S. in recent weeks.

The complaint filed Wednesday in federal court in Washington by the Democratic ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In their first and only debate of the campaign Tuesday night, Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford, and progressive challenger Randy Villegas laid out sharply different strategies for winning over Central Valley voters.

Villegas repeatedly attacked Valadao’s record, calling it a failure for working families while pushing for a...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers appears to be breaking with President Donald Trump on another key issue less than a month before Election Day.

"Drinking a Labatt and watching the Red Wings, man, it just doesn't get any more Michigan than that," Rogers said in a new ad released Oct. 7. "Here in Michigan, we know that ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio used a dramatic backdrop in Greece to remind the world of the Trump administration’s focus on the “unapologetic” pursuit of power, and issued another warning to Europe about the dangers of Western decline.

In a speech on a hill in front of the Acropolis in Athens, the top U.S. diplomat invoked Renaissance ...Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Maria Cantwell, the top Democrat on the Senate committee overseeing artificial intelligence, on Wednesday unveiled a set of principles for regulating AI, making a fresh push for congressional action as concerns proliferate over the safety of the technology.

Cantwell's framework would put enforceable federal safety ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House has been unable to describe how it could ensure over $1 trillion President Donald Trump has promised American citizens in exchange for their midterm election votes would be spent in the United States.

During a GOP midterms convention in Dallas last month, Trump promised all U.S. adult citizens a $5,000 payout if ...Read more

In the heated news coverage of what’s at stake in the 2026 midterms, state supreme court races are drawing relatively little attention. Yet these are highly significant elections.

Thirty-one states are holding supreme court elections in 2026, with voters nationwide picking judges to fill more than 60 open seats.

As a law ...Read more

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration regulation used to impose massive immigration fines, granting relief in a lawsuit brought by two women, including a South Florida resident, who were hit with a $1.82 million penalty while pursuing a path to permanent residency.

U.S. District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. in ...Read more

Brazil presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro won the backing of two center-right parties on Wednesday, a day after a veteran lawmaker endorsed him, bolstering his campaign ahead of a tight runoff.

The União Brasil party and the Progressistas, known as PP, endorsed the right-wing hopeful, Senator Tereza Cristina Dias told reporters in ...Read more

In the history of voter suppression in the United States, including attempts to stop Black and Latino people from voting, Republican tactics in the 1981 New Jersey gubernatorial race stand out.

That November, voters in several cities saw posters at polling places printed in bright red letters: “WARNING. This area is being patrolled ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A White House bid to address sky high fuel prices by allowing temporary expanded use of untaxed diesel will have a limited impact on businesses and consumers feeling the pain at the pump, experts say.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order while at a Nebraska campaign event on Monday allowing the sale of red-dyed diesel...Read more

Having undermined the law and the Constitution with some terrible opinions in deference to President Donald Trump, this week brings the new U.S. Supreme Court term, and with it the risk that our nation’s highest judicial body will continue to make us a less fair, less moral and less safe society.

As with other recent terms, the weightiness of...Read more

If there’s anything President Donald Trump likes more than campaigning for Republicans, it’s watching his preferred candidates win their elections. In Latin America, he’s having remarkable political success.

Over the last year and a half, right-wing candidates have won seven presidential elections in a part of the world Washington ...Read more

The last 2026 primary elections were held on Sept. 15 in Delaware. Although totals are not yet available, there is evidence that turnout was higher than in most prior election years.

This year’s primaries were also the most competitive in recent history; 13 congressional incumbents were defeated, the largest number since the 1950s ...Read more

Comments by President Donald Trump at a Nebraska political rally interpreted by some as a suggestion Iran could “take out” Los Angeles or San Diego prompted a backlash in California.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday on X that he has directed the State Threat Assessment Center to monitor for any possible threats to California following the ...Read more

In a televised matchup Tuesday Democratic state Rep. Jermaine Johnson and Republican Attorney General Alan Wilson both argued for a new direction for the state.

Wilson said he’s ready to “lead a new generation to up end the status quo,” while Johnson argued it’s time for a “new South Carolina.”

In a debate that got a little chippy,...Read more

The endless fight over daylight saving time is back in the news after President Donald Trump urged the Senate to clear a House-passed bill to make it permanent.

Trump said in a social media post over the weekend that Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is the chief obstacle to the measure and gave out Cotton’s cellphone number so proponents could ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Jen Kiggans, a Republican, and former Rep. Elaine Luria, a Democrat, recently traded barbs over congressional stock trading. Kiggans said Luria unfairly enriched herself while in Congress; Luria said that claim was wrong and that she left with less wealth than when she started.

But both candidates, who meet in a rematch for Virginia�...Read more