NEW YORK — Comedic actor Rosie O’Donnell said she missed her daughter’s college graduation because she was advised that returning to the U.S. might not be safe.

The “League of Their Own” star moved to Ireland when President Donald Trump took office in January. The gay performer said at the time that she and her autistic, nonbinary ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu took a victory lap Wednesday after trouncing Josh Kraft by a 48-point margin in the preliminary election, saying that her sweep of every ward was indicative of voters feeling the city is moving in the right direction.

Wu, flanked by her allies on the Boston City Council and state delegation, said outside City...Read more

WASHINGTON — Reality TV star Spencer Pratt joined two Republican senators on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to bring attention to a newly launched congressional investigation into the response to the Palisades fire in Los Angeles.

“I feel like this is going to be so powerful for all of the United States because there shouldn’t be disasters ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Turnout in Charlotte’s primary came close to doubling results from two years ago as voters cast ballots amid growing national attention around a fatal light-rail stabbing.

The fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on the Blue Line light rail Aug. 22 entered the national spotlight this weekend after video of ...Read more

NEW YORK — Comptroller Brad Lander leads incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman by 19% in a new progressive poll of a potential Democratic primary matchup in the deep-blue NY-10 district spanning lower Manhattan and brownstone Brooklyn.

Lander, who is enthusiastically backing Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral candidacy, leads Goldman 52% to 33% in the poll of a...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrat James Walkinshaw won Tuesday’s special election for Virginia’s 11th District to fill the unexpired term of his former boss, the late Democratic Rep. Gerald E. Connolly.

Walkinshaw, a Fairfax County supervisor, was leading Republican Stewart Whitson, an Army veteran and former FBI official, 75% to 25%, when The ...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — As the Missouri Senate prepares to debate a gerrymandered congressional map, President Donald Trump has ordered Republican senators to fall in line and pass it with no changes.

“I will be watching closely,” the Republican president posted on social media.

The post came just hours after the Missouri House approved ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The outlines of a potential government funding solution is taking shape.

Congressional leaders are discussing a plan that would avert a government shutdown by extending federal funding, allowing more time for them to reach a more comprehensive agreement that would include updated funding levels for federal agencies.

The ...Read more

It’s hard to pin down exactly where President Donald Trump falls on the subject of vaccinations. He launched Operation Warp Speed to develop the coronavirus vaccines early in the pandemic and confirmed he received the shots, but he’s also nominated — and continues to stand by — an avowed anti-vaxxer to lead the nation’s public-health ...Read more

On Sept. 2, the Donald Trump administration killed 11 people by destroying a boat that allegedly was being used by the Venezuela-based Tren de Aragua gang to transport narcotics to the United States. The strike came with a message from Secretary of State Marco Rubio: Those who dare to ship drugs to the United States risk their lives.

But if the...Read more

When I was a young UCLA constitutional law major, we learned that the Constitution wasn’t just parchment behind glass: It was a living promise, fragile and ferocious, meant to protect the people when power overreached.

But on Monday morning, the Supreme Court taught me something new: that those promises, in the hands of a certain kind of ...Read more

President Donald Trump likes to brand himself a business genius. But for average Americans staring at flat paychecks, shrinking opportunities, and higher grocery bills, his “Art of the Deal” looks more like a private equity raid: strip the assets, juice the numbers, and leave someone else holding the bag.

Economic policymaking under Trump ...Read more

I’ve lived the first half of my adult life in darkness. Prison, gangs, conflict, violence. By the time I turned 30, I had spent more than 13 years in correctional facilities, including a total of nearly a decade in solitary confinement.

That same year, education saved my life. A grant from the Sunshine Lady Foundation funded a two-year degree...Read more

WASHINGTON — On the night the House passed the Affordable Care Act in March 2010, Democratic Rep. Earl Pomeroy, then the lone House member from North Dakota, was escorted by his staff to the House floor, where he cast the 218th out of 219 votes to pass the bill.

There was glee among Democrats that night, but Pomeroy saw the writing on the ...Read more

The Trump administration announced plans to crack down on pharmaceutical advertising on television and social media platforms that could disrupt billions of dollars in annual ad spending.

President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Tuesday that calls on federal health agencies to require pharmaceutical companies to disclose more ...Read more

The group behind attempts to bring an independent redistricting commission to Nevada is giving it another go in 2026 and launching a renewed effort to open up primaries.

Vote Nevada PAC filed two constitutional amendment ballot initiatives Tuesday. One would create an independent commission responsible for the once-in-a-decade process of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that U.S. Border Patrol agents violated the Constitution when they stopped a car on a freeway near San Clemente, California, because its occupants appeared to be “of Mexican ancestry.”

The Fourth Amendment protects Americans from unreasonable searches, the justices said ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told European officials he’s willing to impose sweeping new tariffs on India and China to push Russian leader Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table with Ukraine — but only if EU nations do so as well.

Trump made the ask when he called into a meeting with senior U.S. and EU officials in Washington, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration wants flexibility in the stopgap funding bill to properly finance nutrition benefits for pregnant and nursing mothers; low-income housing vouchers; services for veterans exposed to toxins overseas; and the “D.C. fix” enabling local officials to spend more of the city’s own funds, among other requests...Read more