WASHINGTON — As Democrats blast a voter ID proposal touted by President Donald Trump, congressional Republicans are trying to smooth out their own internal disagreements over how far they should go — and whether to tighten federal control over elections in the first place.

With a bill known as the SAVE America Act headed to the House floor ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pamela Bondi is set to face House lawmakers at an oversight hearing Wednesday expected to focus in part on a string of controversies stemming from the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein file release.

For Bondi, it will be her first appearance before the House Judiciary Committee as attorney ...Read more

Rep. Kevin Kiley plans to introduce federal legislation that will seek to lower gas prices in California.

The bill would withhold some federal highway funding for states with a gas tax exceeding 50 cents per gallon, according to a news release on Tuesday. Those states would have an 8% reduction in dollars from the National Highway Performance ...Read more

A panel of judges on the North Carolina Court of Appeals on Tuesday heard arguments in Democratic Gov. Josh Stein’s challenge to a major power shift that stripped him of his appointments to state and local election boards.

Attorneys for Stein argued that the power shift — which transferred appointments to Republican State Auditor Dave ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The FBI claims it seized voting records from a Georgia county due to alleged “improprieties” with the 2020 election, part of a probe that originated with a lawyer who helped President Donald Trump unsuccessfully challenge results of that race.

Information about the investigation was included in a U.S. Justice Department ...Read more

Analilia Mejia appeared to cement victory in the Democratic primary to replace New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill in Congress after her top opponent conceded Tuesday morning.

It’s a massive upset for the state’s progressive movement.

Mejia led the race with a razor-thin margin when former U.S. Rep. Tom Malinowski, the closest contender, ...Read more

MIAMI — As the federal trial of former Florida Congressman David Rivera approaches, his defense team is aiming to remove a prosecutor from the Venezuelan-connected national security case — claiming he has a conflict of interest because of his wife’s alleged connection to a lobbying firm that once employed President Donald Trump’s current...Read more

WASHINGTON — Top officials with the U.S. immigration enforcement agencies defended their approach Tuesday at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, amid intense scrutiny of policies sparked by the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens by immigration agents in Minneapolis.

It was the first hearing with representatives from Immigration and...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump plan to visit Fort Bragg on Friday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Tuesday afternoon.

Leavitt said during a press briefing that the Trumps plan to meet with “military families and the heroic members of our special forces who carried out the successful ...Read more

WASHINGTON ― The White House said Tuesday that President Donald Trump wants to renegotiate the 2013 permit that set in motion the construction of the Gordie Howe International Bridge on the border between Detroit and Windsor, which Canada paid for, seeking a cut of the span's toll revenue.

The bridge construction deal that former Gov. Rick ...Read more

The FBI claims it seized ballots and voting records from a Georgia county election office in connection with a criminal investigation into alleged “improprieties” with the 2020 election.

Information about the probe was included in a U.S. Justice Department filing in court that was unsealed Tuesday under order from a federal judge. The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s recent verbal swipes at congressional Democratic leaders could complicate closing a deal on the opposition party’s demands for immigration enforcement changes.

White House officials and Trump himself had said after a deal was struck late last year to end a lengthy government shutdown that he and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Democratic-Farmer-Labor state Rep. Kaela Berg has been helping patrol Burnsville, sometimes using a whistle while she drives to warn residents of immigration agents nearby.

Former Lakeville Mayor Matt Little and state Sen. Matt Klein, also Democrats, have been leading protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in ...Read more

It says a lot about the state of affairs when a Puerto Rican singer and rapper does more to unify the country in about 13 minutes than the president of the United States has done in the past 13 months.

Bad Bunny’s halftime performance at Super Bowl XL was all about love, while Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office is focused on hate.

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WASHINGTON — The campaign arm of House Democrats on Tuesday added five seats to its target list, reflecting the party’s renewed confidence of flipping Republican districts and winning the House majority this year.

The new offensive opportunities bring the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s total “Districts in Play” to 44.

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WASHINGTON — With two Democratic incumbents facing competitive primaries, early campaign disclosures depict two different situations for U.S. Reps. April McClain Delaney and Kweisi Mfume.

While Mfume holds a solid fundraising edge over his most prominent challenger, Baltimore City Councilman Mark Conway, McClain Delaney’s fundraising has ...Read more

Democratic congressional leaders are rejecting a White House counteroffer to their demands for reforms to President Donald Trump’s immigration operation as “incomplete and insufficient” as a deadline for a deal on Department of Homeland Security funding looms on Friday.

Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries trashed the response to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The leaders of the agencies enforcing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown faced tough questioning on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, with one Democratic lawmaker asking the head of ICE if he would apologize to the families of two U.S. citizens killed by federal agents and called domestic terrorists by Homeland Security ...Read more

NEW YORK — Jack Schlossberg on Tuesday declared if he wins the crowded race to succeed Rep. Jerry Nadler in Congress, he’ll be all in on investigating and even impeaching President Donald Trump.

The Kennedy scion told MSNOW’s "Morning Joe" that Democrats must retake the House of Representatives in the fall midterm elections so they can ...Read more