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

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday accused Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of using FEMA overpayment funds to support her 2021 congressional campaign.

The department in a news release said a federal grand jury in Miami returned an indictment against the Florida Democrat and several others. The indictment was not immediately ...Read more

The House Ethics Committee opened an investigation Wednesday into Florida Congressman Cory Mills, an announcement that came amid a push for a censure vote against the embattled Republican.

The ethics panel said the probe will consider a variety of allegations, including whether Mills engaged in sexual misconduct or dating violence, violated ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Democrats held a forum Wednesday to call attention to harms from President Donald Trump’s tough-on-immigration enforcement push, highlighting stories of individuals who interacted with immigration agents.

Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said the event was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The top four leaders of the Senate and House Appropriations committees plan to huddle Thursday to make headway on the next package of fiscal 2026 spending bills, sources familiar with the meeting said Wednesday.

It will be the first meeting among the four — Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine.; House ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Democrats are lining up to run against two-term Republican U.S. Rep. Cory Mills, hoping to capitalize on a series of high-profile controversies they think make the Trump ally vulnerable in the midterm elections.

Bale Dalton, an Orlando native and former NASA chief of staff, launched the latest bid this week. He joins Noah ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans were divided Wednesday over whether to repeal a controversial provision that could net hefty payouts for a cohort of senators whose call records were collected by federal authorities without notification.

House lawmakers are expected late Wednesday to pass a bill repealing the provision, which sparked outrage ...Read more

South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace admits she has no friends other than her Havanese pooch.

The conservative firebrand’s confession happened Tuesday night after Congress voted to compel the Justice Department to release all available information about alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who had ties to some of the world’s most powerful men....Read more

WASHINGTON — Wednesday’s House Administration hearing on congressional insider trading is in one sense a win for the bipartisan cadre of lawmakers who have pushed on the issue for years.

But it’s far from the end of the road, and some of them still believe leadership is slow-walking a proposed ban on stock trading.

“Make no mistake, if...Read more

NEW YORK — Chi Osse, one of the New York City Council’s most progressive members, has spoken in recent years about how voting for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primary was a formative experience for him politically.

But there’s a catch: Osse didn’t back Sanders at the ballot box in 2016 because he wasn’t even registered to ...Read more

Donald Trump’s presidential library foundation plans to raise almost a billion dollars in tax-exempt contributions over the next two years to build and operate his high-rise legacy project in downtown Miami, according to new tax filings.

The foundation’s massive fundraising projections — during a period while Trump is still in office — ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Democrats are lining up to run against two-term Republican U.S. Rep. Cory Mills, hoping to capitalize on a series of high-profile controversies they think make the Trump ally vulnerable in the midterm elections.

Bale Dalton, an Orlando native and former NASA chief of staff, launched the latest bid this week. He joins Noah ...Read more