President Jose Jeri’s impeachment by congress Tuesday — making him the third straight president to be removed from office — is highlighting divides within Peru’s political right-wing and the top two conservative presidential contenders just ahead of general elections.

Jeri was ousted over corruption allegations and for hiring young ...Read more

Sanae Takaichi was reappointed as Japan’s Prime Minister following her resounding electoral win, a formality that allows her to turn her attention to expediting passage of the annual budget and implementing a trade deal agreed with U.S. President Donald Trump.

The vote in parliament to affirm her as leader on Wednesday was virtually assured ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — One year into his first term, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s focus on autism is showing how polarizing Trump administration health policy can be for Capitol Hill Republicans.

Some GOP lawmakers say Kennedy’s interest in autism is counterproductive and could cause long-term mistrust in public ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s aura of invincibility is starting to vanish. Three new polls — including the usually Trump-hospitable Rasmussen — suggest that Joe Biden did a better job as president.

Worse still (for Trump), he’s underwater on immigration, foreign policy and the economy — the very trifecta that powered his return. An ...Read more

All but unnoticed last month, a bipartisan group of legislators introduced a resolution calling for Congress to keep budget deficits at no more than 3% of gross domestic product. Though not enough by itself to solve America’s fiscal problems, the proposal is a rare step in the right direction. It deserves strong support.

On plausible ...Read more

A majority of the Sacramento City Council on Tuesday endorsed Rep. Doris Matsui’s re-election bid for Congress, supporting the incumbent over their fellow Councilmember Mai Vang, who is vying for the same seat.

The support by Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty and councilmembers Roger Dickinson, Eric Guerra, Rick Jennings, Lisa Kaplan and Phil ...Read more

In a remarkable rebuke, a trio of Republican state lawmakers from Michigan's Upper Peninsula publicly rescinded their support for the five-term GOP congressman who represents northern Michigan and the U.P., calling him a "liar" and suggesting he's been absent and "disconnected" from his district.

A long-time state lawmaker, Sen. Ed McBroom, ...Read more

The Trump administration has appealed a federal judge’s order requiring that the National Park Service restore all the slavery-related exhibits it abruptly removed last month from the President’s House Site in Philadelphia.

The U.S. attorneys representing the federal government argued previously that the White House has full discretion over...Read more

Arthur Ellis of Charles County will not seek reelection to his state Senate seat and instead will run for Congress, setting off a chain of reshuffling across local and state races.

Ellis has publicly weighed a congressional bid in recent weeks following U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer’s retirement announcement, but has stopped short of confirming his ...Read more

DETROIT — Rahm Emanuel, the former congressman, Chicago mayor, White House chief of staff and ambassador to Japan, has a message to Michigan and other states grappling with declining reading and math scores: be more like Mississippi.

That state went from 49th to top-10 for fourth-graders learning to read over more than a decade amid a science...Read more

Several congressional Republicans agree with Donald Trump that their party needs to overhaul its economic sales pitch ahead of November’s midterm elections as the president is expected to hit the campaign trail Thursday in Georgia.

Trump on Monday evening confirmed that his visit to Rome in the state’s northwest would be campaign-heavy. The...Read more

The Trump administration plans to appeal a federal judge’s order requiring that the National Park Service restore all the slavery-related exhibits it abruptly removed last month from the President’s House Site in Center City.

The Department of the Interior and the National Park Service said in a statement Tuesday that the agencies “...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday proposed a new set of cargo taxes on goods entering the United States as part of a sweeping plan to revitalize domestic commercial shipbuilding capacity and port infrastructure.

To help fund shipyard improvements, the administration wants to impose a new fee on all foreign-built commercial ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — The House Agriculture Committee on Friday unveiled a five-year farm bill ahead of the scheduled Feb. 23 markup of a measure that could divide members across regional lines as much as political ones.

The draft bill would set intoxicant testing requirements for hemp, give the EPA sole authority for pesticide labeling, restrict ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran made progress in nuclear talks in Geneva on Tuesday, with Tehran’s negotiators scheduled to return with a new proposal in two weeks, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, a cautiously upbeat assessment that suggests the chances of an imminent military clash are low.

The official, who asked not to be named, said Iran would return...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s 7th Congressional District has been represented by 81-year-old Doris Matsui since 2005. Matsui succeeded her husband, Robert, who served from 1979 until his death from cancer in 2005. Challenger Mai Vang, a Sacramento city councilmember, is mounting one of the most meaningful campaigns against Matsui in her ...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer is hitting back at President Trump as the pair escalate their feud over the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel rail project connecting New York and New Jersey.

After Trump denounced Gateway as a “boondoggle” that he claimed would be plagued by delays, Schumer accused him of playing politics with the sprawling public works project...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump had himself a week, just not the kind political observers have become accustomed to, spending much of it behind closed doors while unable to broker a deal with Senate Democrats.

He dissed a Republican icon over trade policy. He backed down on plans to exclude Democratic governors from an annual gathering of...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer is hitting back at President Donald Trump as the pair escalate their feud over the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel rail project connecting New York and New Jersey.

After Trump denounced Gateway as a “boondoggle” that he claimed would be plagued by delays, Schumer accused him of playing politics with the sprawling public works ...Read more