WASHINGTON — Not far from Rep. Jared Moskowitz’s home, police officers found body armor, smoke grenades and firearms inside the house of a convicted felon, along with a handwritten list of “targets” that included the name of the Florida Democrat.

The Justice Department said it was evidence of a would-be active shooter who was “ready ...Read more

The Trump administration announced a US$10 million reward on March 15, 2026, for information leading to the capture of several senior Iranian figures.

While two of these leaders have since been killed by Israeli strikes, they are included here to provide a more complete picture of Iran’s powerful elite – people deeply embedded in ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Another round of “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump is scheduled for Saturday, March 28, with organizers describing a rally at the Minnesota Capitol as a “national flagship” for more than 3,000 events across the U.S.

At noon that day, they plan to march from three separate locations in St. Paul and ...Read more

A Kentucky judge has declined for a second time to intervene in impeachment proceedings of a Fayette County judge.

Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd denied a request for a temporary injunction filed by Fayette Circuit Court Judge Julie Muth Goodman, to stop ongoing impeachment proceedings in the state General Assembly from taking place.

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WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune set a deadline of next week for resolving the Homeland Security Department funding standoff, as Senate appropriators of both parties held a face-to-face meeting Thursday with White House “border czar” Tom Homan.

Thune, a South Dakota Republican, said the meeting — the first of its kind ...Read more

A Republican candidate who filed for U.S. representative in Indiana’s 1st District with the Nazi salute in his ballot name was removed from the ballot late last month when he didn’t show up to a hearing challenging his candidacy.

Richard Benedict Mayers, who has a history of failed campaigns on a white supremacist platform, filed as a ...Read more

Historically, when the U.S. has undertaken military action against foreign governments, journalists have relied heavily on government sources and rallied “’round the flag,” often uncritically sharing official narratives about U.S involvement. This has been evident during periods of U.S. military engagements in Vietnam, Iraq and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court broke new ground this month when it ruled the Constitution forbids school policies in California that prevent parents from being told about their child's gender transition at school.

But the reach of this new parental right remains unclear.

Does it mean all parents have a right to be informed if their child is ...Read more

Here’s a quiz question on Tuesday’s primary elections: Who spent the most money in support of a single candidate?

If you answered the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, you’d be forgiven because that big-spending lobbying group got outsized attention as candidates without its largesse cast it as a millstone around the necks of the ...Read more

CHICAGO — Following his win in the crowded Democratic primary to succeed retiring U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss took victory laps around the big-money interests that sought to sink him and acknowledged he still had loose ends in his day job leading the city.

“As I’ve come to learn, this is a big district that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Less than 24 hours after Senate Majority Leader John Thune kicked off his attempt to satisfy those demanding passage of a voter identification bill, House Republicans were already saying they weren’t fooled.

“What’s happening right now in the Senate is a SHOW VOTE,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., a leader of the House ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House lawmakers who met with Trump administration officials Wednesday on Capitol Hill emerged with no clear consensus, with some still undecided over whether to reauthorize a powerful surveillance authority without adding more privacy guardrails.

The administration, according to lawmakers, has said it wants Section 702 of the ...Read more

A U.S. House subcommittee created to consider ethics charges against U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has rejected her requests to delay its work until after the conclusion of her criminal trial and to conduct its hearing examining her conduct behind closed doors.

The result: a public hearing of the House Ethics Committee adjudicatory ...Read more

An attorney for California gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa is threatening “legal remedies” if ABC and the University of Southern California do not include the former Los Angeles mayor in an upcoming debate, a move that comes amid criticisms that candidates of color were not invited to participate in the event later this month.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court twice last year cleared the Trump administration to end protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants fleeing violence and instability. In the months that followed, current and former judges repeatedly called out the justices for failing to explain their reasoning.

The issue is before the ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Kevin Kiley of California has been removed from all his House committee assignments, a consequence of his decision earlier this month to leave the Republican Party to become an Independent.

Kiley was formally taken off three committee assignments Wednesday in what his spokesperson John Pirsos said is a procedural move under House ...Read more

MIAMI — Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to appear on Tuesday as a central witness in the Miami federal trial of his longtime friend, David Rivera, a former Republican congressman who decades ago shared a house with Rubio in Tallahassee when both were members of the state Legislature.

Rivera, 60, and political consultant Esther ...Read more