The race for the Bay State’s 8th Congressional District has become a contest in earnest, after an ex-staffer from former Gov. Deval Patrick’s office announced he will challenge U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch for the Democratic Party’s nomination.

Patrick Roath, the Boston-based attorney and voting rights advocate, in making his campaign ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Thursday he’s appointing Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro as the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

The president’s naming of a replacement for outgoing interim prosecutor Ed Martin was expected to come sometime Thursday, sources earlier told ABC News, who first reported Pirro was under ...Read more

President Donald Trump is believed to be considering Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro as the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

The president’s naming of a replacement for outgoing interim prosecutor Ed Martin could come as early as Thursday, sources told ABC News.

Martin’s nomination was pulled earlier in the day after ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal court ruling in Alabama could mean another new congressional map for the state, as a panel of federal judges found the version the state drew in 2023 violated the Voting Rights Act because it diluted the political voice of Black voters.

The more than 500-page ruling from a unanimous three-judge panel said it was “not ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers expressed concerns Thursday over the Trump administration’s proposal to restructure the Federal Emergency Management Agency, calling into question moves that would roll back the traditional bulwark to assist states with disaster relief.

At a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing, Sen. Shelley Moore ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate didn’t muster enough votes to carry a stablecoin bill across a procedural hurdle Thursday, leaving in limbo a bill that only two months ago found bipartisan support in the Senate Banking Committee.

The 48-49 cloture vote on whether to proceed to the bill came after Democrats decided that bill sponsor Bill Hagerty, R-...Read more

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will replace Ed Martin, the former Missouri GOP chair whose controversial nomination to be Washington, D.C.’s top prosecutor has been in question since his Jan. 20 appointment as interim U.S. attorney.

Trump praised Martin but told reporters that he would be announcing a replacement for the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday he would pull Ed Martin’s nomination to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and would soon announce a replacement for the embattled pick.

The shift comes after a monthslong fight in the Senate to confirm Martin, who currently serves in the role on a temporary basis. Earlier this ...Read more

DETROIT — A Democratic state senator from Southfield is the first to jump into the race for U.S. House to succeed Rep. Haley Stevens, who is leaving behind her Oakland County seat to run for U.S. Senate.

Sen. Jeremy Moss, 38, launched his campaign for Congress on Thursday, pitching himself as a disruptor of the status quo from the Southfield ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Legislation that would rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America is “embarrassing,” “unserious” and a waste of time and taxpayer money, according to its Democratic detractors. But it sailed through the House on Thursday, passing on a mostly party-line vote.

Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska was the lone Republican to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Days after Judge James E. Boasberg ruled against President Donald Trump’s plans to quickly deport alleged members of a Venezuelan criminal gang, the president called for Congress to remove the judge from the bench.

“HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE,” Trump wrote in a social media ...Read more

The Trump administration wants to sharply reduce funding for federal rental assistance that helps hundreds of thousands of California households afford a home.

The plan, part of the president's 2026 budget proposal, calls for a 43% reduction in funding available for a variety of programs it labels "dysfunctional," including public housing and ...Read more

Congress is forging ahead with its budget for next year, but the most controversial program on the chopping block — Medicaid — is causing a rift within the Republican Party.

Earlier this year, Congress passed a budget blueprint that contains billions of dollars in cuts to federal spending, which House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., promised ...Read more

WASHINGTON — When Rep. Linda T. Sánchez had her son in 2009, she planned to spend a month with her baby before returning to Congress. It didn’t work out that way. Still recovering from a cesarean section, the California Democrat was needed for votes on the House floor two weeks after giving birth.

And when the House Ways and Means ...Read more

PARIS — Au revoir, America. Bonjour, tristesse, France. If that's overstated, it's not by over-much.

Here in April, in the month and the place of falling rain and falling in love, I found that the rain had not changed much — but the "love" part had.

If my random and unscientific survey of some French opinion at all represents the nation as...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent much of the last four years decrying Justice Department prosecutions against him and his supporters, and one of his first executive orders in January said it sought to end the “weaponization of prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process.”

But since then, Trump has used the power of his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that Sen. Thom Tillis’ decision not to support Trump’s nomination of Ed Martin as Washington’s top prosecutor is “disappointing.”

“It’s disappointing, because I know Ed,” Trump said. “He’s very talented. Crime is down in Washington, D.C.”

Trump was asked about Tillis’ stance ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republican leadership’s decision to step back from two pathways to major Medicaid cost savings has fueled contempt among hard-line conservatives, raising questions about the future of a reconciliation package that faces a key markup next week.

The proposals would have cut federal Medicaid spending by billions of dollars, ...Read more