For most of this year, caseworkers in Rep. Suhas Subramanyam’s office have struggled to get through to federal agencies, as mass layoffs rippled through the Trump administration.

His staff was starting to make inroads again with certain agencies, like the Internal Revenue Service, the Virginia Democrat said.

Then, the shutdown came.

“They...Read more

President Donald Trump over the weekend continued to paint San Francisco as a hotbed of crime, and suggested in a Fox News interview, once again, that he planned to send federal troops to the city by the bay.

“I think they want us in San Francisco,” Trump told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo during a Sunday interview. “San Francisco was truly...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and congressional Democrats have announced a sweeping investigation into potential misconduct in the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown that has ensnared citizens, made use of racial profiling and terrified communities for months.

Bass and the top Democrat on the House ...Read more

Outrage spread Monday over President Donald Trump’s effort to mock the huge No Kings protests over the weekend by posting an AI video of himself dumping waste on demonstrators.

Supporters of the sprawling rallies that drew millions slammed Trump for posting the 18-second clip depicting him wearing a crown and piloting a KING TRUMP warplane ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expected to host Senate Republicans for a Rose Garden lunch Tuesday, while the ongoing partial government shutdown continues to have no end in sight.

A GOP source confirmed the plan for the White House visit, which comes as the Senate majority will also try this week to call up a bill that would pay ...Read more

WASHINGTON — One of the lawmakers working on the Senate Banking Committee’s next iteration of crypto legislation doesn’t want to revisit a provision in earlier legislation prohibiting stablecoin issuers from offering interest because she’s got her hands full advancing the latest bill.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., is resisting efforts ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will decide the constitutionality of a federal law banning gun possession for anyone who is an “unlawful user” or addicted to any controlled substance.

Ali Danial Hemani was charged with violating the law when federal agents found cocaine, marijuana and a pistol during a search of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide if "habitual drug users" lose their gun rights under the Second Amendment.

The Trump administration is defending a federal gun control law dating to 1968 and challenging the rulings of two conservative appeals courts that struck down the ban on gun possession by any "unlawful user" of ...Read more

Influential conservative groups with deep pockets are pushing Republicans to demand steep concessions from Democrats in exchange for extending health care subsidies, a move that risks prolonging a U.S. government shutdown now in its 20th day.

Activists on the right, including the billionaire Koch family’s political arm, are running ads and ...Read more

Other than frustration at surging migration, Latin America has not merited the same level of attention in Washington as the Middle East, Europe or Asia in recent history. That indifference has ended with the second Trump administration, but the nature of our renewed attention is not exactly what many of our neighbors might have hoped for.

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Almost two years ago, Ashleigh Merchant sat at a desk in the cluttered back room of her Marietta law office, her mind racing.

It was deadline day for pretrial motions in the Fulton County case accusing Donald Trump and 18 others of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. Merchant’s paralegal was about to upload a document that ...Read more

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Senator Rodrigo Paz won Bolivia’s presidential runoff on Sunday, pledging to repair relations with Washington and curb spending to address the deepest economic crisis in four decades.

Paz led former president Jorge Tuto Quiroga of the Alianza Libre coalition by 54.5% to 45.5%, with 98% of ballots tallied in the preliminary ...Read more

Vote counting has started in Bolivia’s presidential runoff, which will determine which of two pro-business candidates will take office amid the deepest economic crisis in 40 years.

Senator Rodrigo Paz of the Christian Democratic Party and former President Jorge Tuto Quiroga of the Alianza Libre coalition both pledge to curb government ...Read more

State Sen. Sharif Street has an early fundraising lead over his competitors in next year’s Democratic primary for a storied Philadelphia congressional seat, according to new campaign finance reports.

But the race is in its early stages, and candidates who entered the race after Street still have plenty of time to catch up before the May 2026 ...Read more

Bolivians are voting in a presidential runoff to decide which of two pro-business candidates they trust to lead them out of their deepest economic crisis in forty years.

Senator Rodrigo Paz of the Christian Democratic Party and former President Jorge Tuto Quiroga of the Alianza Libre coalition both pledge to curb government spending, phase out...Read more

The Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity programs arrived last month for Atlanta’s airport, with a demand to cancel inclusion policies or lose federal funding. Mayor Andre Dickens refused — forfeiting tens of millions of dollars for the world’s busiest aviation hub.

But for Dickens, who’s led the city since 2022, it was worth...Read more

As the Justice Department presses charges against some of Donald Trump’s perceived political enemies amid his retribution push, the former prosecutor who built two criminal cases against the president is back on his radar.

Jack Smith, the one-time U.S. special counsel, recently reemerged in public to denounce the Trump administration’s ...Read more

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia’s presidential election Sunday will bring an end to two decades of rule by a socialist government that ran the economy into the ground. But the giddiness of voters and investors over the prospects of change will soon give way to the reality of a difficult turnaround.

The Andean nation’s sovereign bonds have ...Read more