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It’s almost like a bizarre political science experiment: Just how many unpopular policies can one president pursue? From starting a war with Iran to threatening Greenland to building a new White House ballroom, President...Read more

Prior to the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell decision, opponents raised alarms about the severe and immediate harms that would surely occur if marriages between same-sex couples were recognized nationally. Afterward, ...Read more

Governor Abigail Spanberger won a sweeping victory in Virginia in no small part because she focused on affordability and prioritized political pragmatism over polarization. Five months later, a public opinion poll shows ...Read more

What's the big deal about Hungary? It's a central European country with 9.5 million people -- slightly less in population and area than the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. But it's been the subject of more care, attention ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — President Donald Trump touted his signature tax cuts at a Las Vegas roundtable discussion Thursday, declaring that the U.S. economy was “booming.”

The president was flanked by local workers who thanked ...Read more

Democrat Analilia Mejía, a progressive organizer with ties to labor interests, won Thursday’s special election in New Jersey for the seat formerly held by Gov. Mikie Sherrill.

Mejía was leading Republican Joe Hathaway...Read more

Analilia Mejia, a progressive organizer, will replace New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill in Congress after winning a special election Thursday night.

Mejia defeated Republican Joe Hathaway, the former Randolph mayor, The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans plan to release a budget resolution next week that would kick-start the process for a reconciliation bill on immigration enforcement funding and help end a partial shutdown of the ...Read more

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Vance's Attack on the Pope Leaves Bruises -- On The Vice President

SAN DIEGO -- As a ...Read more

DENVER — The financial arms race over Colorado’s most-contested congressional district is in full swing, with incumbent U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans amassing a multimillion-dollar war chest as he looks to ward off the three ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The acting administrator of the Transportation Security Administration gave a strong endorsement of President Donald Trump’s budget request for fiscal 2027 before a House Appropriations subcommittee ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom quickly called a special election to replace Rep. Eric Swalwell, a gubernatorial hopeful turned Democratic lightning rod who resigned this week from his post in Congress amid a wave...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — In the first three months of 2026, state Rep. Chris Rabb raised nearly twice as much as his opponents in Philadelphia’s open congressional race, a significant rebound for his campaign after his former ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, leading a Pentagon prayer meeting, quoted a fictional bible verse taken from a violent monologue in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film “Pulp Fiction,” originally delivered ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Two Democrats raised large sums of money this past quarter as they compete for the Democratic nomination against Pinellas County’s incumbent GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna.

Retired Brig. Gen. Leela Gray ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. acknowledged that vaccination may have saved the 6-year-old Texas child who died from measles last year, even as he defended the Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is slated to headline a Turning Point USA event Friday in Phoenix as several Arizona Republicans seek the state’s governorship and two competitive House seats in the upcoming midterm...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to take his economic pitch on the road to western U.S. states, as the White House grapples with an increasingly unpopular war with Iran ahead of the November midterm elections. ...Read more

The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation Thursday to extend deportation protections for Haitian immigrants with the help of all three of Miami’s Republican members of Congress, marking a significant victory...Read more