House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday angrily rejected the plan passed by the Republican Senate to end the partial government shutdown that has brought chaos to airports.

In a remarkable show of open Republican division, Johnson trashed Republican senators for voting unanimously after midnight to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security....Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Sam Graves, who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is joining a growing list of lawmakers deciding not to seek reelection this year.

“After considerable reflection, 2026 will be my final year in Congress,” Graves, 62, said in a Friday statement. “This wasn’t an easy decision, but it’s the...Read more

On Feb. 24, The Conversation hosted a webinar titled, “What Americans can learn from other nonviolent civil activism movements.”

Executive editor and general manager Beth Daley interviewed John Shattuck, professor of practice at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and Oliver Kaplan, associate professor at...Read more

MIAMI — For several years, former Miami-Dade Congressman David Rivera has maintained that he helped funnel money from his $50 million contract representing the U.S. subsidiary of Venezuela’s national oil company to politicians opposing socialist President Nicolás Maduro.

Some of that money, Rivera has said, went directly to the jailed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans — caught by surprise by the Senate’s early-morning deal on Department of Homeland Security spending — signaled they wouldn’t be jammed by the other chamber on their way out the door to a two-week recess, instead proposing a roughly eight-week stopgap measure to buy more time for negotiations.

The Senate�...Read more

During his first Cabinet meeting since launching the U.S. war on Iran, President Donald Trump spent 10 minutes talking about the price of ceremonial White House pens — which he claimed to have brought down, from $1,000 to $5, by switching to his favored Sharpie brand.

Trump was trying to make the point during the Thursday meeting that he’s ...Read more

The House Ethics Committee said 25 counts of misconduct by Florida Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick have been “proven by clear and convincing evidence,” after a closed-door vote during the wee hours Friday morning and rare, televised hearing Thursday evening.

Ethics Committee staff had accused the Democrat of 27 counts of misconduct...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has thrown out the blueprint for the wartime American presidency — and it has hindered his management of the Iran conflict, former officials and analysts said.

Those experts said this week that where previous U.S. commanders in chief have sought to portray a steel will and generals-based message, Trump ...Read more

It’s too early to say whether two major special-election upsets — the narrow defeat of a highly-favored Republican in a Tampa Bay based Senate seat, and a Democrat’s victory in a South Palm Beach County House district — are anything more than a continuation of the fact that Democrats tend to do better in special elections.

But these two...Read more

WASHINGTON — Members of a House Ethics subcommittee ruled against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., after a marathon hearing Thursday that stretched into the night, finding that she violated ethics rules.

It was a rare moment for the typically secretive ethics panel, as a public “trial” unfolded for the first time since 2010.

In a...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, the powerful Missouri Republican known for his ability to work across party lines, will retire and not seek a 14th term in Congress.

Graves, 62, whose sweeping 6th District in northern Missouri touches Kansas City’s Northland, confirmed his planned exit on social media Friday morning. His retirement,...Read more

Operation Epic Fury – the latest round of military strikes against Iran – began when Iran was engaged in negotiations with the United States to renew restrictions on its nuclear program.

This is not the first time the United States has bombed Iran during nuclear negotiations.

In June 2025, while its representatives were in...Read more

Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick’s legal team presented her first detailed public defense against allegations of “extensive misconduct” during a six-hour House Ethics Committee hearing Thursday evening.

The Democratic lawmaker is also facing criminal charges alleging that she stole Covid relief funds after the state made a $5 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Members of a House Ethics subcommittee are weighing evidence against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., after a marathon hearing Thursday that stretched into the night.

It was a rare moment for the typically secretive Ethics panel, as a public “trial” unfolded for the first time since 2010.

In a packed room that ...Read more

Thousands of protests are scheduled across the United States on Saturday as part of the “No Kings” movement opposing President Donald Trump’s administration.

Organizers expect millions of people to turn out for this third round of No Kings demonstrations, with more than 3,000 local-level events mapped on the movement’s official website....Read more

Small counties in the coastal Southeast had some of the largest population gains between mid-2024 and mid-2025 in estimates being released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, mostly because of people moving from larger areas.

Jasper County, South Carolina, where there’s a building boom taking advantage of the popularity of nearby Hilton Head,...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Thursday night he would immediately begin paying Transportation Security Administration workers through an emergency executive order.

The order promised to end long delays at the nation’s airports and allow TSA workers to get paychecks they have been denied during a partial shutdown of the ...Read more

TAMPA. Fla. — As voter turnout numbers in the special election for Florida Senate District 14 came in Tuesday evening, Democrat Brian Nathan’s prospects looked dim.

Thousands more Republicans turned out compared to Democrats, according to unofficial figures released by Hillsborough County‘s elections office. One hour before the polls ...Read more

Anthropic PBC won a court order blocking a Trump administration ban on government use of the company’s artificial intelligence technology, after the Claude chatbot maker argued the move could cost it billions in lost revenue.

US District Judge Rita F. Lin issued a preliminary injunction on Thursday, pausing the administration’s plan to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he will sign an order to pay Transportation Security Administration officers in a bid to alleviate disruptions at U.S. airports with lawmakers in Congress deadlocked on how to end a partial government shutdown.

“I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne ...Read more