WASHINGTON — The top four House and Senate appropriators met Thursday for the first time since the partial government shutdown but emerged with no breakthroughs that could pave the way for a new spending package.

The meeting marked a small, positive step toward bipartisan negotiations that would be needed for an eventual deal. But so far, the...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Kevin Kiley, usually a reliable Republican vote in Congress, Thursday criticized House Speaker Mike Johnson for a “failure of leadership.”

Kiley, R-Roseville, has been disappointed for months that Johnson, R-La., has not had the House act on Kiley’s bill to bar mid-decade redistricting.

“I don’t know what his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday said he believed Democratic lawmakers who publicly urged active service members to "refuse illegal orders" amounted to seditious behavior, which he said should be punishable by death.

"It's called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In a quietly passed piece of the law that ended the federal government shutdown last week, U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly was the odd man out.

The Pennsylvania Republican — who was among a group of nine lawmakers to find out last month that their phone records had been captured in an FBI investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the...Read more

WASHINGTON — It was business as usual Thursday at the White House as a list of American political luminaries and family members gathered across town to remember Dick Cheney, the late former vice president with the aggressive foreign policy that helped spawn the “Make America Great Again” movement.

White House aides chatted and laughed ...Read more

While it’s already known President Donald Trump flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane, his brother suggests in a new interview Trump may have returned the favor.

“They say Donald was on Jeff’s plane like seven times, but I question, have they checked Donald’s flight logs from those days to see how many times Jeffrey was on his plane?” ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday denounced as “traitors” a group of Democratic lawmakers who have called on military service members to defy orders that are illegal or violate the Constitution.

In a string of posts on his social media site, Trump derided the six Democrats, all of whom are military veterans, for their recent video message ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday called for Michigan U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin and other Democratic lawmakers to be arrested and possibly executed over their remarks in a recent video urging members of the U.S. military and intelligence community to refuse unspecified illegal orders.

In a remarkable message on social media, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A day after the Justice Department announced a grand jury has indicted Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick on allegations she used FEMA overpayments to support her 2021 run for office, Rep. Greg Steube said he would try to expel the Democrat from Congress.

The House has spent much of the week on a punishment spree, as ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he isn’t worried that President Donald Trump might try to embarrass him during their high-stakes White House meeting on Friday.

“I’m not concerned about this meeting, I view this meeting as an opportunity for me to make my case,” Mamdani told reporters Thursday when asked if he’s concerned ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday called for Michigan Democratic U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin and other Democratic lawmakers to be arrested and put on trial over their remarks in a recent video urging members of the U.S. military and intelligence community to refuse unspecified illegal orders.

In a remarkable message on social media...Read more

WASHINGTON — A secret of political handicapping is that how a district has voted in the past is a pretty good indicator of how it will vote in the future.

But while the most recent presidential election is typically a good measure of a House seat’s partisan performance, this month’s off-year election results showed that the 2020 ...Read more

The Trump administration is moving forward with efforts to neuter the Department of Education. The move couldn’t come fast enough.

The Washington Post reported this week that various grant programs within the department will be moved under other Cabinet agencies. This includes the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Office of...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s boycott of this weekend’s Group of 20 summit in South Africa leaves the forum fumbling to divine his latest intentions on the global stage without a U.S. representative for the first time since its inception.

Fortunately, world leaders can find insight in the foreign policy machinations of the U.S. ...Read more

After attacking and demonizing each other incessantly during the New York City mayoral campaign, President Trump and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani have agreed to meet at the White House on Friday.

In a post on his Truth Social site around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Trump said, “Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran “Kwame” Mamdani, has asked ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani appeared at a Democratic Socialists of America meeting Wednesday night to urge the group to not endorse his onetime campaign surrogate Chi Osse’s 2026 challenge against Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries — a sticky situation that spotlights a power struggle unfolding inside the leftist organization. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani are set to meet at the White House on Friday, the president said in a social media post.

The meeting marks the first time the two leaders — and political polar opposites — will come together to discuss how they can work with each other since the election earlier this ...Read more

MIAMI — A Miami federal grand jury indicted South Florida Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick Wednesday, accusing her of funneling federal pandemic relief funds back to her own 2021 congressional campaign.

The allegations, announced by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, are related to the family health care company ...Read more