WASHINGTON — Members of the House Democratic Veterans Caucus said in a statement Wednesday that recent comments by Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., were “disgusting” and that the former leader of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus should immediately apologize for suggesting that congressional Democrats hated the military and served solely for ...Read more

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwanese officials are courting podcasters and influencers aligned with Donald Trump as they grow more worried the U.S. leader could undermine the self-ruled democracy’s interests in talks with China, according to people familiar with the matter.

Trump has said Taiwan will likely be on the agenda when he’s expected to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — North Carolina Republicans have completed their mid-decade redraw of the state’s congressional map, placing a Democrat-held seat in the state’s northeastern corner in jeopardy.

The GOP-led state House gave final approval to the new lines on Wednesday, a day after Republican state senators backed the revised map, under which ...Read more

Early voter turnout exceeds expectations in California’s Nov. 4 special election over redrawing the state’s congressional districts, a Democratic-led effort to counter Republican attempts to keep Congress under GOP control.

“We’re seeing some pretty extraordinary numbers of early votes that have already been cast, people sending back in...Read more

WASHINGTON — The University of Virginia became the latest college to strike a deal with the Trump administration, settling civil rights investigations that threatened the school’s federal funding and cost its former president his job.

As part of the accord, the university agreed to provide the government with data on its admissions and ...Read more

OLYMPIA — Republican candidates running for state Senate this year say they have a plan to push back on progressive policies coming out of Olympia: forming a bipartisan coalition of moderates that could work together to block certain legislation and tax increases.

The possibility of a new moderate coalition comes with a few key swing Senate ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Three of the country's most powerful judges met in Pasadena on Wednesday for a rare conclave that could rewrite the legal framework for President Trump's expansive deployment of troops to cities across the United States.

The move to flood Los Angeles with thousands of federalized soldiers over the objection of state and local ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom said he anticipated a “similar playbook” playing out in his hometown of San Francisco after Customs and Border Protection deployed 100 agents to the Bay Area on Wednesday, following similar campaigns in Portland and Los Angeles.

Newsom told reporters in Stockton that it was likely President Donald Trump would next storm ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A local immigration lawyer said three of her clients who were legal residents of the U.S. were taken in Wilder, Idaho, on Sunday.

Hundreds of law enforcement agents over the weekend swarmed La Catedral Arena as part of what the FBI said was an investigation into illegal horse race betting. While court records showed agents have...Read more

The last day North Carolina lawmakers will be in town until late November — or possibly even before the new year — was marked again by disagreement over Medicaid funding and raises for public employees.

Both issues are tied to the broader budget negotiations between the House and Senate, which are both led by Republicans and have been at a ...Read more

NEW YORK — Democratic mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani plans to ask Jessica Tisch to stay on as NYPD commissioner if he wins next month’s election, two sources familiar with the matter told the Daily News on Wednesday.

It wasn’t immediately clear if Tisch will accept the offer, and a spokeswoman referred to a statement the commissioner...Read more

President Donald Trump has expanded his drug war beyond the Caribbean with an attack on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean that his administration charges was carrying narcotics — and said Wednesday he was “totally prepared” to escalate the situation even further with land attacks.

“There are very few boats traveling on the water. So...Read more

A 24-year-old woman nearly died after she swallowed water tainted with sewage flowing from a pipe that dumped about 85,000 gallons of raw waste into Lake Tahoe’s azure waters, according to documents and the victim.

The woman, who requested anonymity to protect her medical privacy, enjoyed wakeboarding and surfing near Carnelian Bay and Dollar...Read more

With three months remaining in Haiti’s rocky political transition, United Nations Security Council members are calling on the country’s leaders and politicians to quickly set aside their differences and avoid a political vacuum.

The urgent call comes amid the pending end of the current governance arrangement that expires on Feb. 7, 2026 —...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeff Merkley’s overnight remarks ending early Wednesday evening put him in the top tier of lengthy floor speeches in the chamber’s history, a marathon floor protest emblematic of the paralysis gripping Washington as a partial government shutdown entered its fourth week.

Merkley’s all-nighter on the Senate floor began ...Read more

At least 55 student news organizations have voiced support for The Stanford Daily in its lawsuit against Trump administration officials over free speech violations, a national student journalists organization said.

According to the Student Press Law Center, it joined campus newsroom leaders nationwide and two other major college journalism ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is demolishing the entire East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom at the property, he said Wednesday, in a move exceeding the original scope of the project and prompting controversy over the extent of the construction.

Trump told reporters he had undertaken “really a tremendous amount of study ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Times has obtained videos showing the incident Tuesday in South Los Angeles that left a deputy U.S. marshal and a TikTok streamer wounded during an immigration enforcement operation and its aftermath.

Authorities say the deputy marshal was hit by a ricochet bullet fired by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...Read more

JERUSALEM — U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Wednesday to discuss plans for a postwar Gaza, with the allies trying to maintain and look beyond a truce in the shattered Palestinian territory.

The plan is for “a completely new vision of how to have a civil government, how to have security there...Read more