President Donald Trump thinks the Republican National Committee should host a midterms convention to bolster the party’s chances of holding onto control of the House of Representatives and the Senate past 2026.

The president, who’s enjoyed strong support from Congress since returning to power in January, made his pitch on his Truth Social ...Read more

Former New York Yankees All-Star Mark Teixeira is running for Congress in Texas as a Republican, he announced Thursday.

“It takes teamwork to win — I’m ready to help defend President Trump’s America First agenda, Texas families and individual liberty,” Teixeira wrote on social media. “As a lifelong conservative who loves this ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump on Thursday to stop his effort to fire her, launching a legal battle over the Fed’s independence that could work its way to the Supreme Court.

Cook’s suit, filed in a federal court in Washington, says Trump’s actions violate her due process ...Read more

Trump says his deployment of federal law enforcement is about restoring order in Washington, D.C. But the real message isn’t about crime—it’s about power.

By federalizing the District’s police, activating the National Guard, and bulldozing homeless encampments with just a day’s notice, Trump is flexing a new kind of presidential ...Read more

It’s difficult to look at the Middle East today and be optimistic. Every U.S. president since the turn of the century has entered office promising to strike peace agreements in this region, only to leave office without succeeding. The 2020 Abraham Accords, facilitated by President Donald Trump during his first term, was less a peace agreement ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The core of the House battleground is as evenly divided as the fight for the majority in 2026.

While much of the conversation and analysis surrounding congressional districts references the presidential results, there’s another, more comprehensive metric.

Inside Elections’ Baseline captures a congressional district’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California voters are heavily divided along partisan lines when it comes to President Donald Trump, with large majorities of Democrats and unaffiliated voters disapproving of him and believing the country is headed in the wrong direction under his leadership, and many Republicans feeling the opposite, according to a new poll ...Read more

President Donald Trump said that philanthropist George Soros and his son should be charged with racketeering for allegedly supporting violent protests “and much more,” without citing any evidence.

Trump made the remark Wednesday in a social-media post that did not elaborate on whether Soros is being investigated, or specify which protests ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that the Transportation Department will “reclaim management” of Union Station, Washington’s transit hub, citing homelessness and safety concerns.

The announcement comes after President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to Washington to fight crime, which ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore pushed back against President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on Baltimore in a different forum Wednesday — arguing that millions of dollars in new grants for violence intervention, housing and economic development work in the city are ways the state is taking action.

The governor and the rest of the Maryland ...Read more

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it is opening an investigation into the California Environmental Protection Agency, including the powerful California Air Resources Board, over potentially discriminatory employment practices.

In a notice addressed to CalEPA Secretary Yana Garcia, the Department of Justice said its investigation ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Call it the Trump Doctrine, Version 2.0.

The president and his second-term team have shown an unprecedented willingness to both ignore and exploit long-held traditions and norms that caused other chiefs executive to reject certain courses of actions.

Mix in the most expansive view of executive power in U.S. history, and the ...Read more

The Trump administration Wednesday moved to take over Washington, D.C.’s Union Station as the president widens his federal crackdown on the nation’s capital.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said his department will manage the main rail mass transportation hub in Washington, taking it over from Amtrak next month, as President Trump ...Read more

ATLANTA — Fulton County commissioners are in court Wednesday facing a possible contempt citation after they defied a judge’s order requiring them to appoint two Republican nominees to the county Election Board.

Commissioners failed to approve two election critics nominated by the Fulton County Republican Party in a 2-2 party line vote last ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Two favorites won primaries for a pair of Minnesota Senate seats heading for a special election in November.

Republican Michael Holmstrom Jr. won with more than 73% of votes against Rachel Davis and Bradley Kurtz in the safely red Senate District 29, which covers Buffalo, Monticello and Annandale. He will go on to face ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to quickly step into a legal challenge over billions of dollars in funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development and other foreign assistance funds.

The emergency application Wednesday argues that administrative action at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District ...Read more

WASHINGTON — August has been a hot month for the asphalt industry, with President Donald Trump giving multiple shoutouts for petroleum-based pavement and promising to add asphalt layers to all the streets within 3 miles of the White House.

During an Aug. 13 news conference, the president disparaged concrete roads, poorly maintained ...Read more

CHICAGO — When Eric Wilkins first heard that President Donald Trump was considering deploying National Guard troops to Chicago, he said he couldn’t help but think it sounded like a “bully tactic.”

Wilkins, 54, was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot about 26 years ago. Now an organizer with Communities United, he said ...Read more

President Donald Trump has changed his tune on “terrific” Taylor Swift upon hearing the popstar he once claimed to hate had gotten engaged.

“I wish ’em a lot of luck,” Trump said to a chorus of laughter after a reporter said she felt the need to tell the president that “the biggest pop culture news of the year broke while we were in...Read more