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Earlier this fall, sitting in the back of an immigration courtroom in Hyattsville, Maryland, I watched an immigration judge convince an elderly man that he didn’t need an attorney.

The man was facing the threat of ...Read more

When Chuck Schumer takes over as Senate majority leader in eight weeks, he should move to restore the filibuster back to where it was before the power of the minority to slow down the chamber was eroded by former Majority ...Read more

“The reason we lost is the war,” declared Vice President JD Vance in a lengthy post on X. And, he’s right. The 2026 midterm elections were an unquestioned rebuke of the forces that drive America into foreign wars, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Billions of words have been regurgitated analyzing how Democrats flipped so many Republican seats last week. But all that’s really needed are five: Americans flipped off the president.

My quick ...Read more

The midterm elections drew most people’s attention last week, but some may have noticed that the Powerball and MegaMillions jackpots both crossed the $500 million mark. A person from Illinois won the Powerball jackpot of...Read more

U.S. Rep. Michael Baumgartner has won reelection to Washington’s 5th Congressional District seat, in a race that saw a Democratic challenger get the closest to winning the district in more than 30 years.

With Monday’s...Read more

DENVER — Democrat Eileen Laubacher declared victory Monday in her race against U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a polarizing crusader for the Make America Great Again movement whose apparent defeat in Colorado’s most ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is throwing his support behind the United Nations-authorized Gang Suppression Force, warning Monday that the latest international effort to wrest control of Haiti from the powerful grip ...Read more

WASHINGTON — LaKesha Womack faced towering odds as an underfunded Democrat making her first run for public office in a North Carolina district that Donald Trump carried by 15 points two years ago.

But as early voting ...Read more

The anonymous satirical art activist group Secret Handshake is at it again — this time erecting a giant golden statue of a seated President Trump rubbing a bare foot. Titled "The Foot Soldier," the statue pokes fun at ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., took to the House floor Monday to unveil a resolution that would impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and a vote on the issue could occur by Wednesday.

A draft resolution that ...Read more

Abortion advocates are hopeful that Texas’ newly elected Democratic leaders could mean the state could enact more exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban.

Here’s where the laws currently stand, and what ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump offered full-throated support for Pete Hegseth, signaling that the embattled defense secretary’s job was safe for now amid a congressional effort to impeach him for his conduct of ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take on a civil rights case filed by residents of Poppleton in West Baltimore who challenged the city’s eminent domain taking of homes under a 20-year-old, failed agreement with ...Read more

After initially congratulating Democrats on their midterm wins, which he said he was "absolutely willing to accept," President Donald Trump posted a baseless missive to social media about not trusting early ballot totals ...Read more

NEW YORK — A state lawmaker is drafting a bill to potentially block New York’s participation in President Donald Trump’s Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program — seemingly against the wishes of Gov. Kathy Hochul.

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WASHINGTON — What happens when more than 100 members-elect descend on Capitol Hill a week after Election Day?

As Rep.-elect Dan Koh, D-Mass., put it, “It really is like high school — but it’s fun high school.”

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Republican Rep. Thomas Massie introduced a measure to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday, roughly one week after the unpopular Iran war the Pentagon chief championed fueled a midterm defeat for President ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal over a lawsuit brought by the mother of Ricky Cobb against the Minnesota state troopers involved in his shooting death more than three years ago on Interstate 94....Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has briefed top lawmakers on a growing national security crisis around the world’s leading chipmaker, Nvidia, after its chief executive, Jensen Huang, admitted over the weekend to...Read more