CHICAGO — The candidates are as varied as the Democratic Party itself: a legacy name shadowed by controversy, a big-money-backed moderate, a dyed-in-the-wool progressive and seven more.

But the crowded field in the March 17 Democratic primary vying to represent the Illinois 2nd Congressional District agrees on much. They promise to expand ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In the two months since former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned from her seat in Congress, Georgia Republicans have been going out of their way to minimize her presence in the race to replace her.

Seventeen candidates, including a dozen Republicans, are set to face off March 10 in a special election for the 14th District in ...Read more

Northeast Park Hill, a Denver neighborhood, has a long history of violence. During Denver’s summer of violence in the early 1990s, it was considered ground zero for gang conflict.

From the late 1990s through 2014, violent crime in Northeast Park Hill declined from its peak in the early ’90s but remained persistently higher than ...Read more

As the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, American citizens living in or visiting the Middle East found themselves stranded in countries facing bombing attacks by Iran. The State Department on March 2, 2026, urged Americans in 14 Middle Eastern countries to leave via “available commercial transportation, due to serious safety risks.�...Read more

President Donald Trump sounded confident Thursday that change might come to Cuba in as little as two weeks, and said the country’s leadership is intent in cutting a deal with the United States.

As he welcomed Inter Miami players, the 2025 Major League Soccer champions, to the White House, Trump told one of the club’s owners, Cuban-American ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, and Senate President pro Tem Monique Limon publicly entered the fight to preserve election integrity after President Donald Trump called on the Republican Party to “nationalize” elections last month.

Trump floated the idea of Republicans taking over election procedures...Read more

President Donald Trump sounded confident Thursday that regime change might soon come to Cuba and said the country’s leadership is trying to cut a deal with the United States.

“Cuba’s going to fall, too,” he told the news outlet Politico in a phone interview. “We cut off all oil, all money, or we cut off everything coming in from ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republican leadership Thursday called on Rep. Tony Gonzales to withdraw his reelection bid after the Ethics Committee opened an investigation into his alleged affair with a staffer who later died by suicide.

The statement from Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., is a turning point in a weeks-long controversy surrounding the future of...Read more

WASHINGTON — A group of Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the tariffs President Donald Trump adopted in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that invalidated much of his worldwide tariff scheme.

State law enforcement officials from Arizona, California, New York, Oregon and 20 other states asked a court to block...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday brushed off Texas Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton’s insistence that he will stay in the Republican U.S. Senate race even if Trump endorses his rival, incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.

After Paxton said he won’t drop out of the May 26 runoff, the president reportedly suggested Paxton’s defiance could backfire by ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Bob Rucho, a Republican member of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, announced his resignation Thursday, just one day after a conservative activist called for his removal for past comments he made about Senate leader Phil Berger’s reelection campaign.

Berger, who faced a tough Republican primary campaign against ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With President Donald Trump back in the White House and his party controlling the House and Senate, 2025 was the most partisan year for Congress in the history of our study in terms of floor votes, and it wasn’t even particularly close.

A whopping 85.3% of roll call votes were party unity votes — those with a majority of each...Read more

The Trump administration’s overhaul of the U.S. visa system for highly skilled immigrants is about to get its first major test.

The annual lottery for H-1Bs, the most popular visa for white-collar professionals looking to build a career in the U.S., gets underway with new rules this month. For the first time, successful sponsors for ...Read more

Several Democratic states are moving to bar federal immigration agents from being near polling places and other election sites, amid persistent worries that President Donald Trump will use federal law enforcement or the military to disrupt the midterm elections.

Measures to restrict federal agents from operating at or near election-related ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted he must personally play a role in picking a new leader of Iran as the war against Tehran raged on with no end in sight.

Trump compared the selection of a new leader in Tehran to the U.S. military action in Venezuela that replaced President Nicolas Maduro with his onetime lieutenant Delcy Rodriguez.

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MIAMI — Lev Parnas, a key figure in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, announced Wednesday that he is campaigning for the Miami congressional seat held by Republican U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar.

During a livestream, Parnas, 54, said he was running for office because he knows Trump’s system from the inside. He helped build ...Read more

“Even before taking office, I made clear that Iran would not be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon on my watch.”

Former President Barack Obama said that in 2015. A little over a decade later, it’s apparent that they gave him little heed.

When U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner ...Read more

The Trump administration can’t even retreat from its unconstitutional attacks on law firms with any sense of dignity.

After months of unsuccessfully arguing for Donald Trump’s farcical executive orders attempting to punish prominent law firms that had worked with his perceived enemies, the Justice Department had apparently seen the light ...Read more

One of the great conveniences of living in Central Maryland is the abundance of air travel options. We may not be home to a top-10 airport, but, collectively, BWI Marshall, Dulles International and Ronald Reagan National average more than 900 departures per day, or roughly the same as Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, the nation’s ...Read more

President Donald Trump has endorsed U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme to run as the Republican contender for a Montana Senate seat, now that the incumbent, Steve Daines, is not running for reelection.

“Steve’s Term is up, and he has decided to leave the Senate and, ‘pass the torch’ to Kurt Alme, my TRUMP 45 and TRUMP 47 U.S. Attorney,” the ...Read more