WASHINGTON — The Defense Department will no longer allow media organizations to keep offices in the Pentagon building after a federal judge ruled that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had improperly revoked credentials for dozens of them.

The Pentagon will close what’s known as the Correspondents’ Corridor after deciding that access to the ...Read more

President Trump on Monday rejected a bipartisan deal that could end the partial government shutdown and ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to patrol some airport security checkpoints as air travel delays kept getting worse.

As ICE agents headed to 14 airports in the New York area and nationwide, Trump refused a proposed deal ...Read more

Only six of the ten leading candidates for California governor will take the stage Tuesday night for the next televised debate, prompting backlash from the excluded candidates — all of whom are major former officeholders — who are accusing organizers of using biased criteria that let in San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan despite similar polling ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers face a final sprint this week before a mini spring break recess — that is, if leadership lets them leave.

With new urgency to fund the Department of Homeland Security, the focus will be on off-the-floor negotiations to end the partial government shutdown.

And President Donald Trump is further complicating a deal to ...Read more

MIAMI — Federal prosecutors on Monday portrayed former Miami-Dade Congressman David Rivera and political consultant Esther Nuhfer as “secret” foreign agents for Venezuela who were driven by “greed” when Rivera’s company signed a $50 million lobbying contract to “normalize” relations with then-President Nicolás Maduro.

Rivera, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared ready during oral arguments Monday to restrict state laws allowing the counting of late-arriving ballots, in a challenge to Mississippi’s state law on absentee ballots.

Mississippi allows state officials to count mail ballots that were postmarked on or before Election Day but arrive up to five ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Kermit Gosnell, the infamous West Philadelphia abortion doctor who was sentenced to life in prison on murder and manslaughter convictions in 2013, has died.

Gosnell, 85, died earlier this month at a hospital, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections said. He was most recently being held at State Correctional Institution ...Read more

NEW YORK — Brad Lander and Rep. Dan Goldman traded barbs on Monday over their campaigns’ conflicting proposals to limit the impact of big-money spending by outside political special interest groups in their fierce Democratic campaign in the NY-10 House district.

Lander started the squabble by calling on Goldman to sign what he called a “...Read more

President Donald Trump Monday invoked the name of Jesus Christ in a call for lawmakers to scrap their Easter break and stay in Washington, D.C. to try to pass his package of new voting restrictions.

Speaking at a public safety roundtable in Memphis, Trump said the Republican-led Senate should only focus on passing his SAVE Act and shouldn’t ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Californians may be forced to put their ballots in the mail well before Election Day to be certain they will be counted.

That’s the likely outcome of a Republican challenge to mail-in ballots that came before the Supreme Court on Monday.

The court’s six conservatives sounded ready to rule that federal law requires that ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — For the first time since Kentucky’s unified court system was implemented in 1976, the state House of Representatives impeached a sitting judge.

The Kentucky House of Representatives on Friday voted overwhelmingly to send five articles of impeachment against Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Goodman to the Senate for a potential ...Read more

Multiple women told The New York Times that Mexican American civil rights hero Cesar Chavez assaulted them decades ago, including when some were just girls, one as young as 13. Over their multiyear investigation, published on March 18, 2026, journalists at the paper found “extensive evidence” of that abuse by poring over historical ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has filed more than 60 lawsuits against the federal government since Donald Trump began his second term last January — roughly one a week. The state has also signed on to another 60 legal complaints as a friend of the court. But what are all these lawsuits about?

Here is a breakdown. Some of the lawsuits ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Since Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term last year, California has moved aggressively to push back against policies and actions the state’s Democratic leaders view as overreach.

The state’s lawyers are involved in more than 120 lawsuits against the Trump administration, from efforts to secure promised funding...Read more

WASHINGTON — Californians may be forced to put their ballots in the mail well before Election Day to be certain they will be counted.

That’s the likely outcome of a Republican challenge to mail ballots that came before the Supreme Court on Monday.

The court’s six conservatives sounded ready to rule that federal law requires that ballots...Read more

MIAMI — When Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies as a key witness Tuesday at the Miami federal trial of his friend, David Rivera, the former Florida senator will be asked about statements he gave to FBI investigators concerning two meetings he had with Rivera in 2017 when they discussed a plan to oust socialist Venezuelan President Nicol�...Read more

President Donald Trump and his administration have been working diligently to try to undermine Americans’ trust in our elections. The steady drumbeat of lies and disinformation is intended to give cover to their efforts to interfere in our elections and stack the deck in their own favor. Time and time again, we see them justify their actions ...Read more

President Donald Trump Monday rejected a bipartisan deal that could end the partial government shutdown and ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to patrol some airport security checkpoints as air travel delays kept getting worse.

As ICE agents headed to 14 airports in the New York area and nationwide, Trump refused a proposed deal...Read more

In 2024, Donald Trump dramatically improved his performance among nearly all groups of voters from four years earlier. Trump’s growth among Hispanic voters was especially notable, increasing by more than 10 points from 2020 to 2024, at least according to exit polls.

This led to a considerable amount of commentary speculating that ...Read more