Sen. Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized with “flu-like symptoms,” according to a spokesperson from the senator’s office.

The 83-year-old senator, who is not running for reelection this year, has a “positive” prognosis after being checked into a hospital in Washington Monday night.

“In an abundance of caution, after experiencing ...Read more

The House of Representatives on Tuesday narrowly passed a compromise spending bill, ending the brief partial government shutdown and could set the stage to rein in President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant operation that has roiled the nation.

The 217-214 vote sent the retooled spending package to Trump’s desk for his signature, which he gave...Read more

Minnesota’s Republican congressional delegation is trying to put pressure on Secretary of State Steve Simon to comply with federal requests for the state’s voter rolls, the latest volley in a monthslong battle between the state and federal government over the data.

U.S. Reps. Pete Stauber, Tom Emmer, Michelle Fischbach and Brad Finstad are ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump reiterated that the U.S. and Iran are maintaining diplomatic talks, even after an earlier skirmish in the Arabian Sea spooked oil markets amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

“We are negotiating with them right now” and “they’d like to do something,” Trump told reporters at the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As many Republicans in Congress push for action on a voter ID bill, its future remains uncertain — and key voices in the GOP say they are wary of increasing federal involvement in elections.

“I’m supportive of only citizens voting and showing ID at polling places. I think that makes sense … but I’m not in favor of ...Read more

Renee Good’s brothers sat before a congressional forum and asked for help.

Luke Ganger said his family has experienced “deep distress” over the death of his sister, who was killed Jan. 7 by a federal officer in south Minneapolis, and had hoped the incident would have been a turning point for the country.

“It has not,” he said during ...Read more

​​WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed into law a $1.2 trillion spending package Tuesday, ending a four-day-old partial government shutdown despite a lingering battle over immigration enforcement policies.

The House narrowly cleared the package (HR 7148) a few hours earlier on a 217-214 vote, with 21 Democrats joining most ...Read more

A California doctor this week became the first physician to be sued under a new Texas law that allows private citizens to pursue civil legal action against anyone who provides abortion medication in Texas.

In the lawsuit, first filed in Texas federal court in July 2025, Jerry Rodriguez alleged that San Francisco Bay Area doctor Remy Coeytaux ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., is running his own political version of "The Bachelor" to find a new congressional district — and he is down to three roses.

Over the past few weeks, Kiley has publicly ruled out several potential districts as he weighs where to seek reelection. That leaves him with three options if he ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump shared the head table at an exclusive Washington dinner Saturday night with George W. Bush. It was fitting, considering the 47th president has increasingly been borrowing from the playbooks of predecessors he’s long criticized.

While Trump’s second-term penchant for stretching or obliterating laws and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With other spending bills behind them, Congress now looks to find a way forward on a Homeland Security measure ensnared in controversies over the Trump administration’s aggressive enforcement push on immigration, an area where common ground historically has been hard to find.

Since the second fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by...Read more

WASHINGTON — One of the brothers of Renee Good, the 37-year-old mother of three who was shot and killed by an immigration agent in Minneapolis, told congressional Democrats on Tuesday that he needed their help.

Luke Ganger said their family had taken some consolation in the thought that his sister's death might spark a change.

"It has not," ...Read more

The House of Representatives on Tuesday narrowly passed a compromise spending bill that will end the brief partial government shutdown and could set the stage to rein in President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant operation that has roiled the nation.

The 217-214 vote sent the retooled spending package to Trump’s desk for his expected signature...Read more

WASHINGTON — National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard rebuked Democratic lawmakers and others who expressed alarm over her participation in an FBI raid of a Georgia county election office, saying that President Donald Trump had asked her to be there.

Criticizing what she called “blatantly false and slanderous accusations” by members ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy shot down an Iranian drone headed toward a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, spooking oil markets amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran.

A U.S. F-35C warplane shot down the drone in self-defense as the unmanned aircraft “aggressively approached” the USS Abraham Lincoln with “unclear ...Read more

Bill and Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify in person to a Republican congressional investigation into notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, apparently ending their defiant campaign of resistance.

The former president and ex-secretary of state emailed staffers for the GOP-led House Oversight Committee saying they would accept GOP demands and...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Retired Brig. Gen. Leela Gray, a Pinellas County resident, entered the Democratic primary to unseat U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna in Florida’s Congressional District 13 on Tuesday.

Though 2024 Democratic challenger Whitney Fox lost to Luna by nearly 10 points, national Democrats once again are aiming for upsets in two red-...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House narrowly cleared a $1.2 trillion spending package Tuesday with bipartisan support, effectively ending a four-day-old partial government shutdown despite a lingering battle over immigration enforcement policies.

President Donald Trump has promised to sign the five-bill spending package for fiscal 2026 “immediately.” ...Read more

DENVER — With less than five months to go until Colorado’s June 30 primary election, the money game came into sharper focus across the state’s congressional races and U.S. Senate contest with last weekend’s campaign finance reporting deadline.

Colorado features one of the closest congressional races in the nation — the 8th ...Read more

The ex-husband of former first lady Jill Biden was charged in his wife’s murder on Tuesday, more than a month after she was found dead on her living room floor in their Delaware home.

Linda Stevenson, 64, had been found “unresponsive in the living room” in late December by police responding to a domestic dispute call and was pronounced ...Read more