The Sacramento area’s 6th Congressional District race features a slate of high-profile candidates with experience in elected office or leadership roles.

Among the most well-known names are U.S. Rep. Kevin Kiley, former California state Sen. Richard Pan, Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho and West Sacramento Mayor Martha Guerrero. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Eric Swalwell’s downfall has raised the possibility of a broader reckoning on Capitol Hill as congressional staffers, reporters and opposition researchers race to verify long-standing rumors of a sordid underground culture among the city’s most powerful.

Former lawmakers across the political spectrum have warned for years of...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday afternoon that he’s calling a special election to finish the remaining months of former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s term after he resigned earlier in the day amid sexual assault allegations.

The election will be held on Aug. 18 — just two months after the June primary where nine candidates are ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley said his committee will be “fully prepared” to process a Supreme Court nomination if a justice retires at the end of this term, and he would recommend President Donald Trump appoint either Texas Senator Ted Cruz or Mike Lee of Utah to fill the vacancy.

Asked Tuesday whether he thought ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two congressmen whose staff members accused them of sexual misconduct resigned Tuesday, leaving calls for reform and accountability in their wake.

Now, House veterans and victim advocates warn the departure of Reps. Reps. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and Tony Gonzales, R-Texas won’t — and shouldn’t — be the end of Congress’...Read more

President Trump has signed a bill restoring federal funding to tech startups in California and elsewhere, money that had been held up for more than six months.

The Small Business Administration money, a key source of capital for new aerospace and defense firms in the Los Angeles region, ran out in October after a Congressional impasse.

The ...Read more

Defense lawyers and prosecutors jointly asked a Miami federal judge Tuesday to delay the fraud trial against Florida Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and three co-defendants until early February 2027, citing voluminous discovery that has yet to be reviewed, according to a motion filed with the court.

The congresswoman, who represents ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The rise of political prediction markets and several well-timed trades have spurred lawmakers to introduce multiple bills aimed at stopping or regulating insider trading in prediction markets.

But lawmakers are far from agreeing on how far to extend such bans.

“Members of Congress should be prohibited from participating in ...Read more

Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he expects the House of Representatives to vote to expel embattled U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick.

Cherfilus-McCormick, a Florida Democrat, faces an April 21 hearing at which the full House Ethics Committee will consider a sanctions recommendation to the full house after its adjudicatory subcommittee ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Bruce Springsteen took some major swings at the Trump administration during his superb concert with the E Street Band at Chase Center in San Francisco on Monday night. Here are some of the highlights:

(At the start of the Springsteen concert):

“The E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — For the first time since filing an impeachment petition against a Fayette Circuit Judge in January, former lawmaker Killian Timoney has spoken out about the proceedings, saying he did so in pursuit of justice.

Timoney — who is seeking election again for a Lexington-area house seat — said in a Facebook post on Tuesday he ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s handling of the investigative files into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein marks the biggest hit to his net approval ratings in Florida, according to a statewide poll conducted by Democratic consultants.

Other issues resulting in low approval numbers included abortion, government spending, Iran and the economy, ranked by...Read more

The Justice Department on Tuesday said federal prosecutors under former President Joe Biden “weaponized” the law to target people with anti-abortion views, and said one of the key examples was a case in which the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia charged a Bucks County activist with seeking to intimidate workers and patients outside a...Read more

On Sunday night, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conceded defeat in one of the most important elections I’ve ever witnessed. The right-wing strongman stepped down from power in Hungary after a rule of 16 years — years that spanned the adult lifetime of a generation of young people, who have now made their voice heard, through their ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Privacy advocates and the intelligence community have painted vastly different pictures over whether a powerful surveillance authority contains enough privacy protections for Americans, as lawmakers look to act before the program’s statutory authority expires next week.

At issue in the sprawling debate is the extent of the ...Read more

Prior to 1978, U.S. presidents could do what they pleased with the records from their time in office. They owned them.

But in 1978, the Presidential Records Act established new rules for the official records of a president. Passed in the wake of Watergate, when President Richard Nixon tried to keep incriminating materials from being ...Read more

Peru’s Keiko Fujimori, the second-place finisher for three straight presidential elections, is now positioning herself for a victory that would capitalize on the power structure she’s built over two decades in the shadow of her father’s legacy.

While official results from Sunday’s vote are still being counted, Fujimori has enough of a ...Read more

LIMA, Peru — The race to take on conservative Keiko Fujimori in Peru’s presidential runoff remained deadlocked Monday, with thousands of Peruvians still voting because of logistical mishaps a day earlier.

A fresh quick count by pollster Ipsos has Fujimori leading the first round with 17.1%. Leftist lawmaker Roberto Sánchez was second with ...Read more

Rep. Don Davis announced Monday that he plans to donate to charity any money that Eric Swalwell, a fellow U.S. House Democrat, donated to his campaign, his staff told McClatchy.

Davis’ decision comes amid allegations of sexual misconduct against Swalwell that ended the California lawmaker’s gubernatorial race and caused him to resign from ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Ahead of an expulsion vote, Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales said he plans to “file my retirement from office” when the House returns on Tuesday — more than a month after he faced allegations of an affair with his staff member who later died by suicide.

It’s unclear whether Gonzales, who already dropped his reelection ...Read more