WASHINGTON — Last fall, a breakaway group of Senate Democrats undercut their party to make a deal with Republicans and reopen the government, angering many of their colleagues in the other chamber.

Now, with the Department of Homeland Security shuttered in the midst of a fierce fight over President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, some ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has gone more than three months without issuing a decision since it heard oral arguments on the legality of President Donald Trump’s worldwide tariffs, as evidence of the potential fallout has emerged across Washington.

The justices kept the tariffs in place as they weigh Trump’s signature domestic and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Local officials in Kansas City celebrated when a development company abandoned plans last week to sell a warehouse to the U.S. government for the purpose of becoming a 7,500-bed immigration detention center — including Reps. Sharice Davids of Kansas and Emanuel Cleaver II of Missouri.

The Democrats had raised concerns in ...Read more

The U.S. military build-up in the Middle East means Iran’s window to reach a diplomatic agreement over its atomic activities is at risk of closing, according to the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has discussed concrete proposals with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to inspect sites ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Populist Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday formally kicked off the campaign to place a billionaires tax on the November ballot, framing the proposal as something larger than a debate about economic and tax policy as he appeared at a storied Los Angeles venue.

"The billionaire class no longer sees itself as part of American ...Read more

The president announces an aggressive, controversial policy. Large groups of protesters take to the streets. Government agents open fire and kill protesters.

All of these events, familiar from Minneapolis in 2026, also played out at Ohio’s Kent State University in 1970. In my academic writing about the First Amendment, I have ...Read more

For the first time in more than half a century, there are no binding restraints on the buildup of the largest nuclear forces on Earth. The New START treaty expired on Feb. 5, 2026, ending the last agreed limits on U.S. and Russian nuclear forces.

New START limited the number of strategic nuclear weapons the United States and Russia ...Read more

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un showcased dozens of new rocket launchers designed for a “strategic mission” as the country prepares to hold a rare party congress in the coming days to lay out its key policy agenda for the next five years.

North Korea’s munitions industry presented 50 600mm-caliber multiple rocket launchers to the Ninth ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an order aimed at protecting domestic supplies of elemental phosphorus used by the U.S. military and glyphosate-based herbicides common in U.S. agricultural production, according to a White House official.

The executive order, which Trump signed on Wednesday, invokes the Defense Production Act to protect domestic ...Read more

Rep. Kevin Kiley remains undecided on his looming congressional reelection campaign, but he has ruled out a return to the California Legislature.

Kiley offered the latest update to his reelection campaign at a live event Tuesday night hosted by The Sacramento Bee. The event, held at the Historic Loomis Train Depot Plaza, allowed residents to ...Read more

WASHINGTON ― Detroit U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib and the top Democrat on a key House panel are pressing the owner of the Ambassador Bridge to reveal details about his reported meeting last week with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about a soon-to-open competing span, the Gordie Howe International Bridge.

Tlaib and U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia of ...Read more

U.S. Senator Ed Markey, D-MA, says he will be boycotting President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address next week and will instead join “The People’s State of the Union,” joining several fellow congressional Democrats in a counterprogramming demonstration against the president.

“The State of the Union should be a reckoning with ...Read more

Sue Altman showed up to a state Senate hearing in 2019 to confront George Norcross and was dragged out by state troopers. Six years later, she’s using that incident as an example of why New Jersey voters should send her to Congress.

“If anything can prepare you for a dogfight that Washington politics is, it’s Jersey politics,” said ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is having conversations with Raúl Castro’s grandson in Cuba, an overture amid Trump administration efforts to push for changes on the communist island.

Col. Raúl Guillermo Rodriguez Castro, 41, known as “El Cangrejo,” the Crab, was the head of personal security when his grandfather Raúl Castro was ...Read more

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto on Tuesday stressed that she will not support further Department of Homeland Security funding until its immigration enforcement agencies undergo reforms, such as creating unmasking and body cameras requirements for agents.

DHS oversees Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement but ...Read more

In November 2025 the Trump administration announced a special park pass commemorating the nation’s 250th anniversary that featured images of two presidents: George Washington and Donald Trump.

Featuring the current president – in place of the National Park Service’s usual landscape pictures – triggered both a lawsuit and a ...Read more

The negative public reaction to Operation Metro Surge – the violent immigration dragnet in Minnesota – was “MAGA’s Gettysburg,” wrote New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie on Jan. 28.

Bouie, of course, was comparing ICE’s setbacks to the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg, the battle often credited with turning the tide of ...Read more

Jesse Jackson’s two campaigns for president, in 1984 and 1988, were unsuccessful but historic. The civil rights activist and organizer, who died on Feb. 17, 2026, helped pave the way for Barack Obama’s election a generation later as the nation’s first – and so far only – African American president.

Jackson’s campaigns ...Read more

The $205 million held since October by the Trump administration in a political spat over the region’s largest infrastructure project has been restored, the Gateway Development Commission said Wednesday in a statement.

The money, part of nearly $15 billion earmarked by Congress for the construction of the $16 billion Hudson River Tunnel, was ...Read more