WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will end 2025 behind on judicial confirmations compared to the pace of predecessor Joe Biden, but ahead of the rate Trump set during the first calendar year of his previous term in the White House.

With 53 seats, majority Republican senators had wide latitude to confirm the administration’s picks for the ...Read more

Susie Wiles was right about one thing.

In a revealing Vanity Fair article, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff said he thinks “there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing. Zero. Nothing.”

Trump confirmed it by having his handpicked board rename one of the nation’s most cherished memorials “The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy...Read more

WASHINGTON – Seven months after President Donald Trump announced plans for a Golden Dome missile shield for America, lawmakers who oversee the Pentagon say they have yet to learn meaningful information about the system’s attributes, cost or schedule.

Trump said in May that the system’s so-called architecture had been “officially ...Read more

Last week the Supreme Court gave the country one notable gift in blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, part of a campaign of intimidation that has seen troops deploy now to various (invariably heavily Democratic) areas.

Six justices said no to Trump, Chief John Roberts, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena ...Read more

For all the lawmakers who’ve announced plans to retire from congressional service this year, there’s a long list of former members from both parties who want to be back in Congress.

They range from former lawmakers whose terms ended only a year ago to ex-members who’ve been out of the political spotlight for more than a decade.

Here’s...Read more

WASHINGTON — As congressional Republicans push to delist gray wolf and grizzly bear populations from Endangered Species Act protections, they now have an ally in the administration who has taken a skeptical view of the law designed for the purpose.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Director Brian Nesvik, who was confirmed in August, has advocated ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Trump administration proposals that would sharply limit pediatric gender-affirming care could face a host of legal challenges if implemented, from accusations of overriding the state regulation of Medicaid to undermining Congress, lawyers and civil rights groups say.

Accusations of subverting the will of Congress have been common...Read more

The Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C., serves as the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Labor. Its dedicated employees implement and enforce labor laws passed by Congress. It’s not a church, or a synagogue, and its mission is not to serve or praise any religious deity. But if you stopped in at the Cesar Chavez auditorium on Dec....Read more

The special election on redistricting has been certified. The closely watched decisions from former Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla have been made.

Does that mean the race for California’s next governor — with its primary just six months away — is ready to heat up?

It’s been a rather lackluster campaign thus far...Read more

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar says she’s long past feeling shock when President Donald Trump says something negative about her or the Somali people.

But now it’s at a new level. It’s not just words.

Federal immigration agents are pulling her constituents off the streets – even, she has said, stopping her son. She’s also being forced to once ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers rarely publicly break with the Trump administration. But the GOP leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees have done so on a number of key occasions during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term.

Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Rep. Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., both longtime ...Read more

Tatum Dale, a longtime campaign manager and former chief of staff to Kentucky Rep. Andy Barr, died Dec. 24.

The Republican congressman who represents the Lexington area in the U.S. House of Representatives and is running to take the seat of retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell shared news of her passing Thursday.

In a news release and statement ...Read more

President Trump wished a Merry Christmas to all, including “Radical Left Scum.”

“Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country, but are failing badly,” the President posted Wednesday on his Truth Social media platform and Elon Musk’s X.

Some of the President’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Members of both parties want government officials to stop putting pressure on social media platforms to censor speech, but turning that stance into law would require getting specific about what kind of pressure is inappropriate, and what those censored can do about it.

Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz has said he will “soon ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Because of religious principles, a young clergyman or woman wants to follow an age-old tradition of not relying on public insurance as they age. So they take the very common step of opting out of Social Security and Medicare.

Once they do that, they can’t reverse the decision. But as they grow older, they come to realize they ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Adam Schiff and his allies want to keep border patrol agents near the border.

So they’ve introduced legislation requiring agents to work within 25 land miles of the border, except in exceptional circumstances.

Schiff, D-Calif., cited the 2022 school shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman killed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It took more than 20 years, but Congress has finally flexed a war powers muscle.

After several fits and starts, lawmakers this month repealed the 2002 Iraq War and 1991 Gulf War authorizations through the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act.

It’s the first time Congress has clawed back a war authorization since the ...Read more

A federal judge said the Trump administration can move ahead with a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications, providing a setback for U.S. technology companies that rely on hiring skilled foreign workers.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell said in a ruling Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s move to radically increase the cost of the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Chinese military is in the midst of a “historic military buildup” that has made the U.S. homeland “increasingly vulnerable,” according to the latest edition of a Pentagon report on the capabilities of the Chinese military, presenting a challenge to President Donald Trump’s plans for new limitations on U.S., Chinese ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Tips provided to federal investigators about Donald Trump's alleged involvement in Jeffrey Epstein's schemes with young women and girls are "sensationalist" and "untrue," the Justice Department said on Tuesday, after a new tranche of files released from the probe featured multiple references to the president.

The documents ...Read more