Three times over the past decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has cut the Securities and Exchange Commission’s ability to extract millions of dollars from alleged wrongdoers.

Critics of the commission say it’s not enough. In arguments Monday they are asking the justices to put new limits on “disgorgement,” one of the SEC’s most potent ...Read more

Former President Rumen Radev, who opposes sanctions against Russia and military aid for Ukraine, claimed an overwhelming victory in Bulgaria’s election and pledged to turn the page on years of political gridlock and corruption.

In the country’s eighth general election since 2021, Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria party is heading for an ...Read more

Former President Rumen Radev, who opposes sanctions against Russia and military aid for Ukraine, is on track to win Bulgaria’s eighth general election since 2021 and may have a chance to end years of political deadlock, an exit poll showed.

Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria party is set to win about 38% of the vote in Sunday’s ballot, ...Read more

A man carrying a gun and a cellphone entered a federal credit union in a small town in central Virginia in May 2019 and demanded cash.

He left with $195,000 in a bag and no clue to his identity. But his smartphone was keeping track of him.

What happened next could yield a landmark ruling from the Supreme Court on the 4th Amendment and its ...Read more

As Republicans chasing statewide office in Minnesota look for an advantage in competitive primary races, one thing can give them a decisive edge: an endorsement from President Donald Trump.

“It would just move you to the front of the line,” said Mark York, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate.

The path to winning that coveted backing, ...Read more

President Donald Trump trekked to Las Vegas on Thursday to tout last year’s “no-taxes-on tips” reform. His appearance represents an attempt by the White House to highlight the administration’s economic accomplishments — under fierce attack from Democrats — heading into the vital November midterms.

A recent Quinnipiac poll found that...Read more

Republican candidate for Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District Tyler Kistner ended his campaign this week, citing his military service obligations as the main reason for withdrawing from the race.

Kistner, who is a veteran and reservist in the U.S. Marines, ran in the district in 2020 and 2022 against Democratic incumbent Angie Craig.

He ...Read more

It’s been more than a month since President Donald Trump teased an endorsement in the U.S. Senate race between incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, but the president has yet to weigh in on his pick for the statewide office.

On March 4, the day after Cornyn and Paxton advanced to a Republican runoff in the Texas ...Read more

The White House said a meeting Friday with Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei was “productive and constructive” as the Trump administration seeks wider access to the company’s powerful new Mythos artificial intelligence model.

The White House said opportunities for collaboration and for addressing the challenges from ...Read more

The race to fill beleaguered former Congressman Eric Swalwell’s seat is getting expensive, with Democratic candidate and nonprofit attorney Rakhi Israni, who previously donated to Republicans and right-wing figures such as Laura Loomer, reporting a fundraising haul in the millions.

While most of the candidates running have raised well under $...Read more

President Donald Trump used several hot-button cultural issues to make a midterm election pitch to a key conservative group in Phoenix on Friday, a day he spent portraying as a possible turning point in the U.S. war with Iran.

Trump had used a series of morning social media posts to suggest a long-term deal with Iran could be close hours before...Read more

WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought to distance himself from U.S. measles outbreaks on Friday at a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing on the administration’s fiscal 2027 budget request.

The hearing, part of Kennedy’s weeklong tour of Congress on the budget, was relatively light on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — During what should have been a week of crucial messaging and legislating, Congress spent the week instead focused on dramas on and off Capitol Hill.

And those sagas have left lawmakers with a lengthy to-do list to tackle next week before they scramble to leave D.C. ahead of their next district and state work periods.

Two House ...Read more

Latino voters across the country — a surprising part of Donald Trump’s coalition in 2024 — are now extremely dissatisfied with the president and his policies, a new poll shows.

But that is not so much true in Florida, where Cubans remain a bastion of GOP support.

In a nationwide survey of Latino voters conducted by Florida International...Read more

NEW YORK — Jill Biden was willing to spend some cold, hard cash for a chance to be on “Heated Rivalry.”

The former first lady put her fandom for the hit hockey show on full display Thursday during a live auction at the NYC Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center’s annual fundraiser, the Center Dinner. According to Variety,...Read more

You don’t even wanna know what he thinks a “bodega” might be.

President Donald Trump revealed he doesn’t know what a “corner store” is when he awkwardly interrupted his own speech at an economics roundtable to critique a speechwriter’s use of the ubiquitous term in the text of his remarks.

“What is a corner store? I’ve never ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a short-term extension of a key spy authority on Friday, sending to President Donald Trump a patchwork agreement intended to give House lawmakers more time to work out a deal over the privacy protections and other issues.

The measure, passed by voice vote in the Senate, would extend Section 702 of the Foreign ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The effort by Republican leadership to reauthorize a powerful surveillance tool collapsed on the House floor early Friday, in a late-night vote over privacy protections that left the future of the renewal push in limbo.

Lawmakers were summoned back to the House chamber more than eight hours after floor action had first been ...Read more