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

When it comes to national politics, Americans are fiercely divided across a range of issues, including gun control, election security and vaccines. It’s not new for Republicans and Democrats to be at odds over issues, but things have reached a point where even the idea of compromising appears to be anathema, making it more difficult to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Days before a deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security, Senate Democrats and the White House are swapping proposals in hopes of averting a partial government shutdown.

But time is short: Both sides have just four days to reach some kind of an agreement, or risk the Department of Homeland Security — the only ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sen. Bernie Sanders, a political hero among liberals and populists, next week will formally kick off the campaign to place a new tax on billionaires on California's November ballot.

The controversial proposal, which would impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of the state's wealthiest residents, is critical to backfilling ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Days before a deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security, Senate Democrats and the White House are swapping proposals in hopes of averting a partial government shutdown.

But time is short: Both sides have just four days to reach some kind of an agreement, or risk the Department of Homeland Security — the only ...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 House Rules Committee teed up legislation for a floor vote Tuesday that would again prevent lawmakers from terminating President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs, this time until July 31.

The panel voted 8-3 Monday to report the resolution, but the floor vote, expected at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, may encounter resistance from ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sen. Bernie Sanders, a political hero among liberals and populists, next week will formally kick off the campaign to place a new tax on billionaires on California's November ballot.

The controversial proposal, which would impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of the state's wealthiest residents, is critical to backfilling ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Randy Fine remembers pulling an all-nighter before his first day in the House.

“I was a congressman-elect for 22 hours,” he said.

After winning a special election in Florida’s 6th District last April, Fine left his victory party at 10 p.m., drove two hours to the airport, and arrived in Washington the next morning.

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WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Monday advanced a procedural motion to block a vote on President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda, potentially delaying a politically uncomfortable vote on his most prominent economic policy until at least July.

The motion will be voted on by the chamber this week. Republicans have a razor-thin majority, so ...Read more

NEW YORK — Rep. Jerrold Nadler endorsed Monday his longtime aide and protege Assemblyman Micah Lasher in the Democratic primary race to succeed him representing the congressional district spanning the Upper East and Upper West sides of Manhattan.

The long-serving liberal lawmaker called Lasher the best choice to carry on his progressive ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration mounted a multipronged legal effort Monday to turn back an order to restore federal funding for the construction of the $16 billion Hudson River tunnel, getting the deadline to pay up pushed back by several days.

Attorneys for the federal Department of Transportation asked a judge to pause a temporary ...Read more

In the first weeks after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a strange pattern emerged in Western media coverage. Headlines oscillated between confidence and confusion. Kyiv would fall within days, one story would claim, then another would argue that Ukraine was winning. Russian forces were described as incompetent, then as a terrifying ...Read more

The January 2026 release of additional files related to the Justice Department’s investigation of convicted sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell has brought renewed attention to the late financier’s connections to the world’s rich and powerful.

However, the failure to redact identifying victim information and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers set up oversight hearings starting this week after the fatal shootings of two Americans by immigration agents, platforms that could result in hours of high-profile criticism of one of President Donald Trump’s signature political issues.

Representatives from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The ongoing fight over fiscal 2026 funding for immigration enforcement is threatening millions of dollars in home-state earmarks for disaster preparedness projects.

The compromise full-year Homeland Security bill, which was dropped from the $1.2 trillion spending package enacted last week, includes $272.7 million across 203 home...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has shrugged off a controversy surrounding a racist meme of the Obamas shared on his social media account, ignoring rare pushback from several Republican lawmakers.

One White House ally, granted anonymity to be candid, dubbed the posting of a meme depicting former President Barack Obama and former first ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s unconventional plan to lower prescription drug prices is being met with a skeptical eye from Republicans as Congress places a greater focus on drug pricing ahead of the midterm elections.

Trump’s plan is to establish “most favored nation” pricing to bring U.S. prescription drug pricing more in ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration on Monday filed papers to fight a court order that would restore federal funding to the $16 billion Hudson River Tunnel as a deadline looms to resume payments.

Attorneys for the US Department of Transportation filed a notice asking the Second Circuit federal appeals court to pause a Friday night ruling that...Read more