ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Scowling under a wool cap and a hood, Robert DeJesus stood in the bitter wind outside the Sunrise Diner in Allentown last week and confessed his “big mistake:” voting for President Donald Trump in 2024.

“The guy makes ‘cookie promises,’” said DeJesus, 57, a retired construction worker and independent voter from ...Read more

A former Washington, D.C., police officer seriously wounded in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol nearly came to blows with a right-wing election-denier during prosecutor Jack Smith’s congressional hearing on Thursday.

The dust-up came during a break in the proceedings, when activist and Army veteran Ivan Raiklin approached former cop ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that his new Board of Peace was withdrawing Canada’s invitation to join, days after Prime Minister Mark Carney issued a withering speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos warning against coercive tactics by the world’s great powers.

“Dear Prime Minister Carney: Please let this Letter serve to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would focus on Iowa’s farmers when he visits the state next week, telling reporters on Air Force One he intends to do “a lot” of campaigning to help Republicans in November’s midterm elections.

“The farmers have been very special to me. Very successful. All three terms,” he ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House passed a roughly $1.25 trillion spending package Thursday in a pair of votes that overcame internal GOP divisions and Democratic protests over the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

The most closely watched of the four bills at stake was the Homeland Security measure, which was at greatest risk of defeat ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In a bipartisan move, the U.S. House on Thursday voted 268-164 to reject an effort to block funding for a provision in federal law requiring automakers and federal regulators to install lifesaving, anti-drunken driving technology into new vehicles.

The 2021 provision, adopted as part of the bipartisan infrastructure package, was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Supporters of a Senate-passed bill that would allow individuals to sue over nonconsensual intimate depictions generated by artificial intelligence urged the House on Thursday to take action on the legislation.

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Laurel Lee, R-Fla., held a news conference with reality TV personality and ...Read more

A voice off-stage boomed “Please welcome the chairman of the Board of Peace!” and Donald Trump entered the same hall in Davos where he addressed the world’s elite just a day earlier. But it was a rather different collection of characters who showed up.

Among those summoned were the iconoclastic Javier Milei, the ever-smiling Trump ...Read more

Lawmakers put tough questions to UnitedHealth Group CEO Stephen Hemsley on Jan. 21, challenging the executive on his pay and demanding answers on whether the Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based company drives up costs through its massive size while subjecting patients to wrongful claims denials.

The bipartisan grilling came from members of the U.S. ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett and state Rep. James Talarico will debate for the first time on Saturday afternoon, as they bid to represent Texans in the U.S. Senate.

Crockett and Talarico are the front-runners in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat that is currently held by Sen. John Cornyn, a longtime Republican ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday defended his findings that President Trump “willfully broke the law” in his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, telling lawmakers that Republican efforts to discredit the probe are “false and misleading.”

“No one should be above the law in our...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he has finished interviewing candidates to serve as the next Federal Reserve chair and reiterated that he has someone in mind for the job.

“I’ll be telling you soon. I have somebody that I think will be very good but I’m not going to reveal it,” Trump told reporters Thursday.

“It’s someone...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon will take aim at a contracting program that’s become a critical part of the business portfolios for many Alaska Native corporations.

“We’re actually taking a sledgehammer to the oldest DEI program in the federal government,” Hegseth said in a video posted to social media on Jan. 16, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It was Thursday morning and Mike Johnson had a problem — again.

An increasingly familiar scene was playing out on the House floor, as a handful of holdouts threatened to tank a procedural vote that once would have held little drama. What was supposed to be a 5-minute vote stretched into 20 minutes, then 25.

Working their way ...Read more

WASHINGTON — John L. “Jack” Smith delivered a full-throated defense of his investigation into President Donald Trump on Thursday, telling the House Judiciary Committee he stands by his decisions as special counsel and “took actions based on the facts and the law.”

Smith, testifying publicly for the first time about investigations that...Read more

President Donald Trump sued JPMorgan Chase & Co. and its chief executive officer, Jamie Dimon, for at least $5 billion over allegations that the lender stopped offering him and his businesses banking services for political reasons.

The complaint, filed Thursday, accuses the bank of trade libel and breach of implied covenant of good faith. It ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Challengers to California’s new congressional map asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block the state from using its new map in this fall’s election, pressing claims the state racially gerrymandered its new map.

The map, passed by ballot initiative last year, would target seats held by five Republicans in the state and was...Read more

Former special counsel Jack Smith said President Donald Trump clearly broke the law in the 2020 election conspiracy case and subsequent classified documents case, and defended his investigation in a politically charged appearance Thursday before a Republican-led congressional committee.

Delivering a scathing indictment of the once and current ...Read more

Members of the congressional Haiti and Black caucuses announced Thursday that they are pursuing a petition to attempt to force a House vote aimed at protecting hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the United States from losing their temporary immigration protections.

The effort is being led by New York Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley, who ...Read more