WASHINGTON — As politicians accuse each other of fanning the flames in Minnesota with dangerous rhetoric, the debate is hitting close to home for members of Congress.

In the same week that Capitol Police announced another rise in threat cases, a man sprayed an unknown substance at Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., as she was holding a town hall ...Read more

President Donald Trump admitted he feels “terrible” about the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, but said he’s was more upset about Good because her parents are “tremendous Trump people.”

Trump made the comment Tuesday on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show” while addressing the ongoing unrest in Minneapolis, where both ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump endorsed Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity for governor Tuesday evening, awarding her the coveted nod from the leader of the Republican Party as she tries to unseat the popular Democratic incumbent Gov. Josh Shapiro in November.

The Trump endorsement comes as Shapiro is on a national media blitz to ...Read more

Sen. John Fetterman hates government shutdowns.

The Pennsylvania Democrat has never backed a lapse in government funding since he took office in 2023.

And this aversion does not appear to be changing anytime soon as the country is staring down the possibility of a second shutdown in roughly four months starting at the end of this week. ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Democrats won a pair of special elections for Minnesota House seats in St. Paul and the east metro on Jan. 27, restoring the chamber to an even partisan split before the Legislature returns for its 2026 session.

Labor lawyer Meg Luger-Nikolai easily defeated Republican and IT professional Dan Walsh for the safely blue seat left ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that Venezuela has, for the first time in nearly a decade, a genuine opportunity for political change, marking a sharp shift from what he described as a long-frozen crisis under former strongman Nicolás Maduro.

“For the first time in literally a decade there is the opportunity that something ...Read more

President Donald Trump warned Iran to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. or face military strikes far worse than the attack he ordered last June, increasing pressure on the regime and propelling oil prices higher.

In a social-media post on Wednesday, Trump said the fleet of U.S. ships he’d ordered to the region, led by the USS Abraham Lincoln ...Read more

The federal government Wednesday inched closer to a shutdown as the Senate remained deadlocked over a spending bill that would fund Immigration Customs and Enforcement amid the agency’s deadly clashes with protesters in Minneapolis.

Large swaths of the federal government will shut down Saturday morning unless President Donald Trump and ...Read more

President Donald Trump warned Iran to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. or face military strikes far worse than the attack he ordered last June, ratcheting up pressure on the regime even as regional leaders sought to spur fresh diplomacy between the adversaries.

In a social-media post, Trump said the fleet of U.S. ships he’d ordered to the ...Read more

President Donald Trump warned Iran to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. or face military strikes far worse than the attack he ordered last June, ratcheting up pressure on the regime even as regional leaders sought to spur fresh diplomacy between the adversaries.

In a social-media post, Trump said the fleet of U.S. ships he’d ordered to the ...Read more

America’s role in the world is changing. If this wasn’t obvious before, it should be now, following President Donald Trump’s efforts to take over Greenland and his visibly strained relations with traditional allies in Europe and elsewhere.

But how much will the world change if America’s stance is different?

Some ...Read more

President Donald Trump claims that birthright citizenship isn’t that: a birthright. He wants the authority to revoke the citizenship of U.S.-born children of immigrants here illegally and visitors here temporarily.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on birthright citizenship this spring. It will likely hand down a ruling by summer. Before ...Read more

It should come as little surprise that Bill and Hillary Clinton have defied subpoenas to testify in the U.S. House probe of Jeffrey Epstein. But the fact that even many Democrats have criticized their failure to appear should be a warning to the power couple.

Bill Clinton has a history of thumbing his nose at the legal process. In 1998, he ...Read more

Colorado Sens. John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet said Tuesday that they wanted several reforms to federal immigration authorities’ practices ahead of a U.S. Senate funding showdown as the backlash to a fatal shooting in Minneapolis intensifies.

Hickenlooper said he hoped Republicans would agree to the reforms, which include prohibiting ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President Trump has announced an executive order to allow victims of the Los Angeles wildfires to rebuild without dealing with "unnecessary, duplicative, or obstructive" permitting requirements.

The order, which is likely to be challenged by the city and state, claimed that local governments have failed to adequately process ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A man appeared to spray a substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar during her town hall in Minneapolis’ North Side on Tuesday.

In prepared remarks, Omar was calling for the abolishment of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and the resignation of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem when she was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday kicked off his midterm campaign schedule in Iowa with a pair of messaging gambles, touting an economy on which many voters have soured and urging farmers to give his global tariffs more time.

Standing behind signage that read “Lower Prices” and “Bigger Paychecks,” Trump didn’t begin the...Read more

FREMONT — A Fremont lawyer with a million-dollar war chest is challenging five other candidates in the race to fill U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell’s open East Bay congressional seat.

“My goal is to get more people involved in the process,” Rakhi Israni told Bay Area News Group on Monday. “People want fresh thinking in Congress.”

Israni, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the two parties are in talks with the White House over U.S. government funding as Democrats threaten to force a partial U.S. government shutdown following a mounting public backlash over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

The fatal shooting of Minnesota nurse Alex...Read more