President Donald Trump’s aura of invincibility is starting to vanish. Three new polls — including the usually Trump-hospitable Rasmussen — suggest that Joe Biden did a better job as president.

Worse still (for Trump), he’s underwater on immigration, foreign policy and the economy — the very trifecta that powered his return. An ...Read more

All but unnoticed last month, a bipartisan group of legislators introduced a resolution calling for Congress to keep budget deficits at no more than 3% of gross domestic product. Though not enough by itself to solve America’s fiscal problems, the proposal is a rare step in the right direction. It deserves strong support.

On plausible ...Read more

A majority of the Sacramento City Council on Tuesday endorsed Rep. Doris Matsui’s re-election bid for Congress, supporting the incumbent over their fellow Councilmember Mai Vang, who is vying for the same seat.

The support by Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty and councilmembers Roger Dickinson, Eric Guerra, Rick Jennings, Lisa Kaplan and Phil ...Read more

In a remarkable rebuke, a trio of Republican state lawmakers from Michigan's Upper Peninsula publicly rescinded their support for the five-term GOP congressman who represents northern Michigan and the U.P., calling him a "liar" and suggesting he's been absent and "disconnected" from his district.

A long-time state lawmaker, Sen. Ed McBroom, ...Read more

The Trump administration has appealed a federal judge’s order requiring that the National Park Service restore all the slavery-related exhibits it abruptly removed last month from the President’s House Site in Philadelphia.

The U.S. attorneys representing the federal government argued previously that the White House has full discretion over...Read more

Arthur Ellis of Charles County will not seek reelection to his state Senate seat and instead will run for Congress, setting off a chain of reshuffling across local and state races.

Ellis has publicly weighed a congressional bid in recent weeks following U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer’s retirement announcement, but has stopped short of confirming his ...Read more

DETROIT — Rahm Emanuel, the former congressman, Chicago mayor, White House chief of staff and ambassador to Japan, has a message to Michigan and other states grappling with declining reading and math scores: be more like Mississippi.

That state went from 49th to top-10 for fourth-graders learning to read over more than a decade amid a science...Read more

Several congressional Republicans agree with Donald Trump that their party needs to overhaul its economic sales pitch ahead of November’s midterm elections as the president is expected to hit the campaign trail Thursday in Georgia.

Trump on Monday evening confirmed that his visit to Rome in the state’s northwest would be campaign-heavy. The...Read more

The Trump administration plans to appeal a federal judge’s order requiring that the National Park Service restore all the slavery-related exhibits it abruptly removed last month from the President’s House Site in Center City.

The Department of the Interior and the National Park Service said in a statement Tuesday that the agencies “...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday proposed a new set of cargo taxes on goods entering the United States as part of a sweeping plan to revitalize domestic commercial shipbuilding capacity and port infrastructure.

To help fund shipyard improvements, the administration wants to impose a new fee on all foreign-built commercial ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — The House Agriculture Committee on Friday unveiled a five-year farm bill ahead of the scheduled Feb. 23 markup of a measure that could divide members across regional lines as much as political ones.

The draft bill would set intoxicant testing requirements for hemp, give the EPA sole authority for pesticide labeling, restrict ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran made progress in nuclear talks in Geneva on Tuesday, with Tehran’s negotiators scheduled to return with a new proposal in two weeks, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, a cautiously upbeat assessment that suggests the chances of an imminent military clash are low.

The official, who asked not to be named, said Iran would return...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s 7th Congressional District has been represented by 81-year-old Doris Matsui since 2005. Matsui succeeded her husband, Robert, who served from 1979 until his death from cancer in 2005. Challenger Mai Vang, a Sacramento city councilmember, is mounting one of the most meaningful campaigns against Matsui in her ...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer is hitting back at President Trump as the pair escalate their feud over the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel rail project connecting New York and New Jersey.

After Trump denounced Gateway as a “boondoggle” that he claimed would be plagued by delays, Schumer accused him of playing politics with the sprawling public works project...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump had himself a week, just not the kind political observers have become accustomed to, spending much of it behind closed doors while unable to broker a deal with Senate Democrats.

He dissed a Republican icon over trade policy. He backed down on plans to exclude Democratic governors from an annual gathering of...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer is hitting back at President Donald Trump as the pair escalate their feud over the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel rail project connecting New York and New Jersey.

After Trump denounced Gateway as a “boondoggle” that he claimed would be plagued by delays, Schumer accused him of playing politics with the sprawling public works ...Read more

Iran said its diplomats are prepared to stay in Geneva for days or weeks to finalize a nuclear deal with the U.S., as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps resumed navy drills in a critical shipping lane for oil.

The military exercises in the Persian Gulf, which Iranian state TV said would partly close the Strait of Hormuz for several hours, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres netted the support of a slew of Bronx elected officials on Tuesday as he seeks reelection.

Congressman Adriano Espaillat, Assembly leader Carl Heastie, state Sen. Jamaal Bailey, Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson and nearly a dozen other city and state Democratic officials were set to endorse ...Read more

President Donald Trump paid tribute to the late Rev. Jesse Jackson as a “good man” and “force of nature” but claimed the late civil rights leader “couldn’t stand” former President Barack Obama.

Mixing praise with petty digs, Trump claimed during his days as a New York real estate tycoon he was friends with Jackson, and he ticked ...Read more

Parts of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important oil-shipping lanes, will be closed for “several hours” on Tuesday as part of Iran’s military drills, state TV in the Islamic Republic reported.

The drills, announced previously, come as Iran and the U.S. start a second round of negotiations in Geneva. Oil reversed losses ...Read more