DENVER — University of Colorado Regent Wanda James unveiled her campaign to unseat Colorado’s longest-serving congressional lawmaker on Wednesday, hoping to ride a wave of Democratic dissatisfaction with longtime party officials.

“When you take a look at what’s happening right now in America, it’s pretty dismal,” said James, a ...Read more

ATLANTA — Now that the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office has been disqualified, the head of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia will decide who inherits the election interference case involving President Donald Trump and 14 of his supporters.

Pete Skandalakis could pick a sitting DA from anywhere in Georgia, a staff ...Read more

Upon Donald Trump’s arrival in the U.K. on Wednesday, the president was heard making a comment about Kate Middleton’s appearance.

The President and first lady Melania Trump were greeted by the Prince and Princess of Wales moments after stepping off Marine One to the grounds of Windsor Castle.

As the couples shook hands, Trump told Princess...Read more

ATLANTA — The Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and more than a dozen of his allies is technically still alive — but on life support.

Its future rests with a Republican former prosecutor at an obscure state agency already familiar with a portion of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ racketeering ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Eleven pickleball courts popped up in the middle of the National Mall this week. For Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, it’s game on.

Capito is an honorary co-chair of the first-ever Congressional Pickleball Match and was charged with recruiting other lawmakers to compete. The West Virginia Republican helped start a bipartisan Senate ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Gov. Tim Walz vowed to respond to gun violence as he jumped into the race for a third term Tuesday, after a summer marked by both a political assassination and multiple mass shootings. The message punctuated Walz’s evolution on an issue that’s taken on new urgency among Democrats in Minnesota.

In a campaign launch video, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Freshman Rep. Sarah Elfreth, a Maryland Democrat, on Wednesday announced her re-election campaign.

Elfreth was elected in 2024 to represent Maryland’s third congressional district, following the retirement announcement of Rep. John Sarbanes. The congressional district includes sections of Anne Arundel, Howard and Carroll ...Read more

Maryland has joined a lawsuit opposing President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for D.C. against Trump on Monday, becoming the 22nd state to join. The lawsuit was filed by D.C. Attorney...Read more

Congressman Martin Romualdez will step down as speaker of the Philippines’ House of Representatives, one of his deputies said, just over a week after a similar change in leadership at the Senate.

Romualdez has told President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. that he will quit as House speaker on Wednesday, Deputy Speaker Ronaldo Puno told ABS-CBN News ...Read more

Queen Camilla’s planned visit with President Trump and the first lady could be hampered by illness, which she reported just hours before the Americans touched down in England.

The queen, who was scheduled to appear on Tuesday at the funeral for the Duchess of Kent, withdrew at the last minute due to “acute sinusitis” — right around at ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In just the past four fiscal years, Congress appropriated, with virtually no public debate, in excess of $100 billion more than any president sought for more than 2,000 weapons programs, according to a government watchdog group’s database and recent Pentagon reports.

And there is more on the way this year.

House and Senate ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will be praised and feted by the British royal family this week during a rare state visit as his presidency enters a new phase following the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk: “Dismantling” left-leaning organizations, creating new heartburn for Democrats.

Top White House officials on Monday ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a stopgap funding bill to tide federal agencies over through the week before Thanksgiving, including an extra $88 million to help provide additional security for officials in all three branches of government and a typical array of “extenders” for programs lapsing Sept. 30.

Speaker Mike ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans unveiled a plan Tuesday to boost congressional security by $30 million, adding that amount to the stopgap spending bill they’re proposing. But discussions about how to keep lawmakers safe are not done, they said.

House Administration Chair Bryan Steil, R-Wis., said the funds would shore up an existing pool of money ...Read more

President Donald Trump threatened to “go after” ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl as part of a White House crackdown on what it calls hate speech after the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

After Karl asked Trump a pointed question about the line between “hate speech” and “free speech” — in reference to U.S. Attorney ...Read more

ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can no longer oversee the prosecution of President Donald Trump in the 2020 election interference case, according to a decision issued Tuesday by the state’s highest court.

The ruling casts doubt on the future of the last remaining criminal prosecution of Trump. A nonpartisan state ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would have lowered American flags to half-staff in the aftermath of state Rep. Melissa Hortman’s assassination if Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had asked him to.

Trump, who days after the assassination said it would be a “waste” of time to call Walz about it, made his latest remarks while taking questions from ...Read more

Local authorities in Texas have arrested a Cuban immigrant in the case of a gruesome murder of a motel employee, the latest high-profile criminal case the Trump administration is using to double down on its mass deportation efforts.

Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, admitted to killing Chandra Nagamallaiah with a machete at the Downtown Suites motel...Read more

President Donald Trump promised Sunday night that a Cuban immigrant accused of beheading his manager at a Dallas motel with a machete last week “will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “I am aware of the terrible reports regarding the murder of Chandra Nagamallaiah, a well respected ...Read more