SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sutter County officials are asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to choose an earlier date for a special election to fill the rest of Rep. Doug LaMalfa’s term in Congress, which was vacated after the sitting congressman’s death in early January.

County supervisors, in a letter approved this week, asked Newsom to select the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A Democratic campaign manager was charged Monday in Chester County with filing fraudulent nomination petitions in the 2024 primary for auditor general, including the forged signature of a Chester County judge, authorities said.

Mariel Kornblith-Martin, 40, of Philadelphia, allegedly filed false nomination petitions when serving...Read more

Far right-wing firebrand Steve Bannon is calling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to “surround” polling places in the upcoming midterm elections, a move that would amount to an unprecedented effort to intimidate voters.

The ally of President Donald Trump claimed that ICE agents, who have spearheaded the president’s ...Read more

As an institution that has been watching Ed Martin’s bull plow through various political china shops for two decades now, this page doesn’t mourn his remarkable fall from grace with the Trump administration, as revealed Monday.

Several national publications report that Martin — a former Missouri right-wing gadfly who left a trail of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats in New Jersey’s 11th District are voting Thursday — yes, Thursday — to pick their nominee and likely successor to Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who was sworn into her new office last month.

Thirteen Democrats are on the ballot for the special election for the blue-leaning North Jersey seat, though two have since ended ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s detractors have portrayed him as a fascist, dictatorial, freedom-hating fiend. The aggressive ICE arrests and protests in Minneapolis, including two shooting deaths of civilians, only added fuel to the narrative that America was devolving into a police state and Armageddon was on its way.

Then Trump pivoted.

Whether ...Read more

It has been 10 months since President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” import tariff announcement in April. Ultimately, that announcement led to U.S. import tariffs rising to an average of 17 percent, their highest level in 100 years.

It is still too early to draw conclusions as to the overall damage those tariffs might inflict on the ...Read more

The debate over President Donald Trump’s tariffs was never really about economics; it was about framing.

Instead of asking whether tariffs generated leverage, revenue or strategic correction, many observers chose a different path: emotional labeling. Tariffs were routinely described as “tantrums,” “outbursts” or “chaos.” Policy ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would have passed on Kevin Warsh as his nominee to lead the Federal Reserve if Warsh had expressed a desire to hike interest rates.

“If he came in and said, ‘I want to raise it,’ he would not have gotten the job, no,” Trump said Wednesday in an NBC News interview.

The president said there ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Georgia Republican Barry Loudermilk, who arrived in the House in 2015 as a tea party-style conservative before becoming a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, said Wednesday he won’t seek a seventh term.

A senior member of the House Administration Committee, Loudermilk joins a wave of GOP lawmakers who won’t be returning ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he intended to stay out of the clash between Netflix Inc. and Paramount Skydance Corp. over Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., saying he would leave the matter to the U.S. Justice Department.

“I haven’t been involved,” Trump told NBC News in an interview. “I’ve been called by both sides. It’s the two sides, but...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would donate any money he received in a $10 billion lawsuit that he filed against the U.S. Treasury and Internal Revenue Service over an unauthorized disclosure of his tax returns to the press during his first term in office.

“Any money that I win, I’ll give it to charity, 100% to charity, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Maryland and Virginia lawmakers announced Wednesday they are forming a congressional caucus to try to protect the federal workforce from further deep cuts and “political interference” from the President Donald Trump’s administration.

“Boy, do we need a caucus,” Southern Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, the former House ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge appeared unconvinced by President Donald Trump’s third bid to move his hush money case to federal court at a hearing Wednesday, where his lawyers squared off with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.

The renewed bid, if successful, could allow Trump to try to get his historic criminal conviction ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congress took steps on Wednesday toward blocking changes to D.C.’s local tax code, even as District officials warned it could wreak havoc on tax season and smash a hole in the city’s budget.

The House narrowly passed a disapproval resolution that would reverse a decision by the D.C. Council to reject some of President Donald ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Just a day after Congress cleared a Homeland Security Department funding extension, lawmakers are facing a political and procedural reality: Nine days isn’t enough to strike and pass a bipartisan deal on federal immigration enforcement policy.

While the White House and Republicans await a policy proposal promised by tomorrow ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s repeated calls to “nationalize” elections drew swift resistance from California officials this week, who said they are ready to fight should the federal government attempt to assert control over the state’s voting system.

“We would win that on Day One,” California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta told The Times...Read more

WASHINGTON — As lawmakers look for a way forward on a Homeland Security spending measure, the emphasis has initially focused on how President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policies have impacted communities hundreds of miles from where two U.S. citizens were shot and killed by federal immigration officers.

Minneapolis, where Renee ...Read more