SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Gavin Newsom, barred from running for reelection, still took heat Tuesday during the first debate in California’s 2026 race for governor.

Six Democrats and one Republican on the stage in Newsom’s hometown of San Francisco took direct aim at the governor’s record on homelessness, efforts to ban the sale of new gas-...Read more

NEW YORK — Rep. Dan Goldman formally picked up the backing of former Comptroller Scott Stringer on Wednesday in his reelection bid against Brad Lander.

In an interview with the Daily News, Stringer praised Goldman, saying there’s “no rationale to run against him” and that the congressional seat was nothing but a “consolation prize” ...Read more

Informing people about political deepfakes through text-based information and interactive games both improve people’s ability to spot AI-generated video and audio that falsely depict politicians, according to a study my colleagues and I conducted.

Although researchers have focused primarily on advancing technologies for detecting ...Read more

President Donald Trump and Congress agreed to separate funding for the Department of Homeland Security from a larger spending bill that enables the federal government to continue operations. They now face a self-imposed deadline of Feb. 13, 2026, to negotiate potential changes to immigration enforcement.

The fact that funding for the ...Read more

Forcibly entering homes without a judicial warrant. Arresting journalists who reported on protests. Defying dozens of federal orders. Killing U.S. citizens for noncompliance. Asking constitutionally protected observers this chilling question: “Have you not learned?”

This is daily life in Minnesota. Operation Metro Surge, ...Read more

Iran has asked the U.S. to move diplomatic talks originally planned for Turkey to Oman and to limit the agenda to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, according to people familiar with the matter.

Tehran is resisting U.S. pressure to include its ballistic-missile program and support for allied militias in the Middle East in the ...Read more

“I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.”

That was President Donald Trump’s demand in a phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the state in the 2020 election. Raffensperger, citing the results of numerous lawsuits and three ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Democrat Janelle Stelson outraised U.S. Rep. Scott Perry for the second quarter in a row in her bid to flip the Central Pennsylvania district, which could determine control of the House in November.

Stelson, who lost by a little more than 1 percentage point to Perry in 2024, has raised more than $2.2 million since launching her...Read more

Sen. Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized with “flu-like symptoms,” according to a spokesperson from the senator’s office.

The 83-year-old senator, who is not running for reelection this year, has a “positive” prognosis after being checked into a hospital in Washington Monday night.

“In an abundance of caution, after experiencing ...Read more

The House of Representatives on Tuesday narrowly passed a compromise spending bill, ending the brief partial government shutdown and could set the stage to rein in President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant operation that has roiled the nation.

The 217-214 vote sent the retooled spending package to Trump’s desk for his signature, which he gave...Read more

Minnesota’s Republican congressional delegation is trying to put pressure on Secretary of State Steve Simon to comply with federal requests for the state’s voter rolls, the latest volley in a monthslong battle between the state and federal government over the data.

U.S. Reps. Pete Stauber, Tom Emmer, Michelle Fischbach and Brad Finstad are ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump reiterated that the U.S. and Iran are maintaining diplomatic talks, even after an earlier skirmish in the Arabian Sea spooked oil markets amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

“We are negotiating with them right now” and “they’d like to do something,” Trump told reporters at the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As many Republicans in Congress push for action on a voter ID bill, its future remains uncertain — and key voices in the GOP say they are wary of increasing federal involvement in elections.

“I’m supportive of only citizens voting and showing ID at polling places. I think that makes sense … but I’m not in favor of ...Read more

Renee Good’s brothers sat before a congressional forum and asked for help.

Luke Ganger said his family has experienced “deep distress” over the death of his sister, who was killed Jan. 7 by a federal officer in south Minneapolis, and had hoped the incident would have been a turning point for the country.

“It has not,” he said during ...Read more

​​WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed into law a $1.2 trillion spending package Tuesday, ending a four-day-old partial government shutdown despite a lingering battle over immigration enforcement policies.

The House narrowly cleared the package (HR 7148) a few hours earlier on a 217-214 vote, with 21 Democrats joining most ...Read more

A California doctor this week became the first physician to be sued under a new Texas law that allows private citizens to pursue civil legal action against anyone who provides abortion medication in Texas.

In the lawsuit, first filed in Texas federal court in July 2025, Jerry Rodriguez alleged that San Francisco Bay Area doctor Remy Coeytaux ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., is running his own political version of "The Bachelor" to find a new congressional district — and he is down to three roses.

Over the past few weeks, Kiley has publicly ruled out several potential districts as he weighs where to seek reelection. That leaves him with three options if he ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump shared the head table at an exclusive Washington dinner Saturday night with George W. Bush. It was fitting, considering the 47th president has increasingly been borrowing from the playbooks of predecessors he’s long criticized.

While Trump’s second-term penchant for stretching or obliterating laws and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With other spending bills behind them, Congress now looks to find a way forward on a Homeland Security measure ensnared in controversies over the Trump administration’s aggressive enforcement push on immigration, an area where common ground historically has been hard to find.

Since the second fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by...Read more