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President Donald Trump on Saturday lashed out at Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, insisting that she asked "over and over" for a photo with him at the recent Group of Seven summit and criticizing what he said was Italy's lack of cooperation ...
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich said in a ruling Friday that the public interest in the material outweighed whatever privacy rights Biden had.
President Donald Trump on Friday showed off the new Air Force One, a formerly Qatari-owned jumbo jet that has been converted into the official U.S. presidential aircraft.
As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, a look back five decades to 1976 — the year of the nation's bicentennial — reveals notable similarities with today.
David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including the preliminary deal with Iran, President Trump's record-low approval rating on the economy and some Republicans in Congress breaking with Trump.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has criticized NATO allies and announced a Pentagon review of their performance. But Hegseth is mostly telling them things they already know.
Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani abruptly cancelled a planned trip to the United States this weekend, calling Trump's claims "serious and offensive" toward Meloni and all of Italy.
A top EU official has set up a tentative back-channel with Russia, despite some leaders' reservations. The Kremlin said on Friday that Russia is open to talks if Europe is ready to listen and not lecture.
The relationship between President Trump and Senate Republicans seems to be nearing a breaking point after Trump upended Republicans efforts for a swift confirmation of his intelligence nominee and as he thwarted quick passage of a bill to renew a surveillance law.
The U.S. on Thursday lifted its blockade of Iran, and oil tankers began freely moving through the Strait of Hormuz after months of being unable to use the critical channel, as the tentative agreement to end the war took effect.
The decision announced Thursday marks the third such fake elector case filed by states to be dismissed, though the Democratic attorney general is vowing to bring it back to a grand jury in hopes of securing another indictment.
In an overwhelmingly Democratic city, Lewis George is likely to take the top spot in November's general election, replacing moderate Muriel Bowser, who decided not to run again after three terms.
Not long ago, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was demonized by leaders of both political parties. Today, just six months after taking office, the 34-year-old democratic socialist's political strength is surging.
Former President Barack Obama, joined by three former presidents, celebrated the opening of his presidential museum in Chicago in an extraordinary event Thursday that brought together politicians, A-list celebrities, athletes and other internationally known figures.
Vice President JD Vance on Thursday said the U.S. Navy has, as part of the agreement to end the war, lifted its blockade on Iranian ports by allowing more than a dozen ships to pass through.
Some voting groups that Trump handily won aren't happy with his economic approach, including more thanhalf of white voters without a college degree.
The primary had Republicans picking their preferred successor to outgoing Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt and a nominee for the Senate seat once held by Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
A senior U.S. official shared with reporters Wednesday what's in the agreement the U.S. and Iran are expected to sign to end the war.
We're revisiting our episode with comedian Dave Chappelle, who sat down with Amna Nawaz in Yellow Springs, Ohio, for a wide-ranging discussion on his concerns around free speech, the importance of local journalism and why he doesn't regret his controversial decision to ...
A federal judge on Tuesday declined to overturn a Wisconsin judge's obstruction of justice conviction for helping a man evade immigration officers who showed up at a courtroom looking to detain him.
The naval mission for the Strait of Hormuz that U.S. allies are proposing as a follow-up to a deal to end the Iran war would aim to reassure crews and shipping insurers that vessels can safely navigate the narrow waterway again, by ...
Rick Jackson's campaign spent more than $100 million, largely out of his own pocket, to defeat Trump-endorsed Burt Jones in the Republican runoff for Georgia governor.
Georgia Republicans delivered a split decision for Donald Trump in Tuesday runoffs, opting for the president's preferred U.S. Senate candidate but rejecting his choice for governor in favor of a billionaire first-time candidate who spent freely from his personal fortune to win ...
President Donald Trump is not known to be a fan of international gatherings of world leaders, but he changed his tune at this year's G7 summit at a French Alpine resort, where he was buoyed by support from his counterparts for his ...
All detainees at an immigration detention center in an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades, known as "Alligator Alcatraz," have been transferred to other facilities, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said, citing concerns related to the hurricane season.
Georgia's Republican legislative leaders on Wednesday rejected Gov. Brian Kemp's call to redraw congressional and legislative districts during a special session, citing concerns about moving too quickly after a U.S. Supreme Court decision weakened federal Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters.
For an insider's perspective on the tensions between President Trump and Republicans in Congress, Amna Nawaz spoke with GOP strategist Doug Heye.
Canadian leaders typically get a bilateral meeting with American presidents at summits of the world's leading industrialized democracies, but Carney dismissed any notion of a snub.
A key Republican senator, Tom Cotton, had vowed to push forward with a hearing anyway, but Trump eventually directed Clayton to not appear for his confirmation proceedings, forcing Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to announce that the hearing was ...
For some, it's a weighty milestone that stirs greater reflection about the ways the nation could learn from its past.
Norton chose not to run for reelection after mounting concerns that, at 89 years old, she was no longer capable of forcefully combating a Republican-led Congress and presidential administration constantly overriding the heavily Democratic city's leadership.
Cameron Hamilton, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, pledged to senators Wednesday to be "fair and reasonable" in assessing requests for disaster aid as he seeks to run an agency roiled by the administration's threats to dismantle ...
Leaders at the Group of Seven summit on Wednesday threw their support behind U.S. President Donald Trump's tentative agreement with Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and further extend a shaky ceasefire — even though he's offered scant specificity about how ...
Alabama voters will return to the polls Tuesday to finalize nominees for an open U.S. Senate seat and a handful of other contests in which no candidate received a majority of votes in the May 19 primary.
Georgia Republicans will finalize their picks in marquee races for U.S. Senate and governor in a state primary runoff election on Tuesday.
Washington, D.C., on Tuesday will hold a districtwide primary for federal and local offices that will be unlike any election the nation's capital has previously held.
A combination of term-limits, retirements, aspirations for higher office and one high-profile presidential appointment have triggered a wave of open seats in Oklahoma's state primary on Tuesday.
Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen said the operation targeted Minneapolis-based antifa groups.
The Alabama race will be another test of Trump's endorsement powers, as his picks have largely prevailed in Republican primaries this year.
Netanyahu's tenure as prime minister spans four U.S. presidents, and he's frustrated all of them at one point or another. But none has voiced that as openly as Trump, who started the conflict in tandem with Netanyahu.
If no candidate receives at least 50% of the vote, the top two will have a runoff Aug. 25.
Court papers unsealed Tuesday say plotters disgruntled with the direction of the country spoke of flying explosives-laden drones and shooting panicked crowd members as they fled.
President Donald Trump has been at the center of this year's midterm campaigns, and his influence will be tested in different ways Tuesday as four states and the District of Columbia hold primaries.
The president voiced his openness to making the move at the start of a meeting with United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on the sidelines of the G7 summit in the French Alps.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was delaying federal prosecutor Jay Clayton's nomination to lead the U.S. intelligence community in a bid to force Congress to act on a voter ID bill that currently lacks enough support for passage.
For several of these candidates, it's the second time in two weeks that they have appeared on a ballot for this U.S. House seat.
President Donald Trump arrived in the French Alps on Monday to meet with fellow world leaders at the Group of Seven summit after announcing an agreement he says will bring an end to the U.S. war with Iran.
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that the Justice Department is investigating him and his wife, accusing the Trump administration of targeting him for political purposes as he weighs a presidential bid.
A top Alaska election official has ruled that a U.S. Senate candidate with the same name and party affiliation as Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan is ineligible to appear on the state's primary ballot in August.
"I think a lot of great things are going to happen in the Middle East right now, and very importantly the oil is plummeting down and the stock market is shooting up like a rocket today," Presidentt Donald Trump said.
Iran and the United States are trumpeting their tentative agreement aimed at ending their war as a victory. But so far there is no word on what's actually in it.
The plane crashed at around 11:20 a.m., the military said on the social platform X.
Trump marked turning 80 on Sunday by hailing an agreement to end the war in Iran hours before a birthday celebration that once would have seemed unfathomable: a cage-fighting show on the South Lawn of the White House.
Legislators passed a law two years ago barring the use of the QR code printed on ballots that the state relies on to tally votes beyond July 1 of this year, but no replacement method was ever implemented.
President Donald Trump marks turning 80 on Sunday with a birthday celebration that once would have seemed unfathomable: a cage-fighting show on the storied South Lawn of the White House.
Israel's military said it launched strikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut, potentially complicating efforts to finalize a deal to end the U.S.-Iran war. Iran threatened a military response.
President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will appoint one of his personal lawyers to serve as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan.
The United States and Iran once again appear close to a deal to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz.
By most accounts, strikes by the U.S. and Israel have significantly degraded Iran's military capabilities and killed scores of senior leaders. But those tactical successes don't necessarily translate into achieving all of President Donald Trump's strategic aims, even as the administration said ...
More than $60 million and tens of thousands of hours of labor have been poured into building the arena.
Federal agents showed up at the Cleveland office of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative on Thursday and spent hours questioning staff, said Prentiss Haney, a board member of the grassroots organization.
A federal judge ruled on Friday that the White House is allowed to stage a UFC show this weekend in an elaborate ring already built on the South Lawn to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary — on President Donald Trump's 80th birthday.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, became a symbol of middle-power resistance in January, when he declared the global rules-based order over and condemned coercion by great powers on smaller countries.
Screwworms are on their way to becoming a billion-dollar international problem but can be contained if ranchers are vigilant, watch their herds and other wildlife, and quickly treat any infestations, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said.
David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including another political fight in Congress, a mixed martial arts fight at the White House and a potential deal to end fighting ...
In our news wrap Friday, a federal judge says the Kennedy Center must continue its court-ordered removal of President Trump's name from the institution, a judge extended a block on the Justice Department's proposed $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' fund and the DOJ signed ...
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that the fund will remain blocked until further notice from the court.
President Donald Trump nominated Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, to be the next permanent director of national intelligence on Thursday. A veteran Trump administration official, Clayton is seen as a more conventional choice for the role ...
A judge on Friday denied a request from the Kennedy Center to pause a ruling ordering President Donald Trump's name removed from building.
Independents have grown increasingly unhappy with President Donald Trump during his second term, a new AP-NORC polling analysis finds, particularly those without a college degree.
President Donald Trump's planned UFC fight on the White House's South Lawn has required a monumental effort from more than seven federal agencies, hundreds of staff working onsite daily and at least $60 million, according to a legal filing that offers a ...
Trump said in a social media post that he made the move after a breakthrough in negotiations, and that significant points under discussion "have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved."
President Donald Trump announced the nomination on social media amid pressure from Congress to name a permanent replacement for Tulsi Gabbard, who resigned last month.
A Minnesota man who posed as a police officer and knocked on lawmakers' doors in the middle of the night, killing the top Democrat in the state House and her husband and wounding a state senator and his wife, pleaded guilty to ...
First lady Melania Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday announced the launch of Fostering the Future Accounts, a spinoff of the Trump Accounts investment funds meant to give $1,000 to every newborn whose parent opens one.
On Monday a federal judge struck down the fees, siding with 20 states and ruling that the Trump administration exceeded its authority by raising the charge without congressional approval.
Federal prosecutors unsuccessfully argued that Brad Lander obstructed an elevator as he sat in front of it for 20 to 25 minutes in September.
Utah U.S. Senators Mike Lee and John Curtis, both Republicans and Latter-day Saints, challenged the Pentagon's exclusion of their faith from its list of Christian religions.
Devlin Barrett has covered federal law enforcement for more than two decades. His new book pulls back the curtain on President Trump's Justice Department and the way he has used it as a tool to settle political scores. Amna Nawaz sat down ...
President Trump announced his plans to nominate Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence. The choice comes as lawmakers refused to extend a key surveillance tool over stalled privacy concerns and questions about the qualifications of the interim intelligence chief. Congressional correspondent ...
In our news wrap Thursday, the Interior Department is investigating what appears to be an anti-Trump message etched into the grass of the National Mall in Washington, severe storms in the Midwest are disrupting travel and the gunman who killed Minnesota House ...
"We're going to hit them again hard today," President Donald Trump said.
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, a Republican, will face Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford in a battle to hold onto his seat in November, setting up what is considered one of the most competitive governor's races in the country.
Without a commitment by July 1, the trade deal would face annual reviews of its status and possibly expire in 2036.
A lapse in a law that allows the U.S. to gather intelligence abroad grew more likely on Wednesday as President Donald Trump resisted calls from Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill to immediately name a permanent head of the nation's intelligence agencies.
Voters in four states went to the polls on Tuesday to choose their parties' candidates. The biggest event was in Maine, where Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner had made scandalous headlines in the past weeks. But in South Carolina, Nevada, and North ...
A new report from the Pew Research Center says American politics are not as simple as red versus blue. Pew surveyed more than 10,000 people and split the public into nine distinct groups along political and cultural values. Despite a polarized political ...
Friday is the deadline for Congress to reauthorize a key tool for collecting foreign intelligence. Critics on the left and the right argue that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is prone to abuse. Others say they won't back it until President Trump ...
The Trump administration has warned more than 500 hospitals that they are failing to provide the public with basic pricing information — arguing that the lack of disclosure is keeping healthcare costs higher than they should be.
The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee is holding a hearing Thursday on artificial intelligence, titled "AI and the American Dream: Promoting Innovation, Affordability, and American Dominance."
Bill Gates, billionaire co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist, is expected to sit for a closed-door transcribed interview on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee about his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
President Donald Trump's warning came hours after Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan — all of which host U.S. troops — came under Iranian fire.
The election will test whether voters in the heavily Democratic city want to move further to the political left to address long-running problems of homelessness, buckled streets and sidewalks and climbing rent and home prices.
Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Dan Sullivan acknowledges that sharing a name and party affiliation with the incumbent Republican gives him "an instant megaphone" in the crowded primary race.
Democrats in both gubernatorial and Senate primaries have criticized what they see as failures of South Carolina's GOP-dominated leadership.
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo will face six Republican challengers in a state primary on Tuesday, while six Democrats will compete for the nomination to reclaim the seat in November.
South Carolina voters will choose nominees for governor and other offices in a state primary on Tuesday, the latest test of President Donald Trump's sway over Republican voters.
North Dakota's lone U.S. House member faces a partial rematch of her 2024 nomination race in a state primary on Tuesday.
Frank Bisignano is expected to face pointed questions from lawmakers at a hearing on his agency's customer service performance, its ability to pay Americans their benefits, protect their privacy, and other questions about the inner workings of the SSA.
Medicare's hospital insurance trust fund will be unable to pay full benefits in 2033, unchanged from last year's estimate.
The Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial is once again filled with water following President Donald Trump's renovations.
On Tuesday, the House passed a bill that will fund immigration and border enforcement agencies. The package passed in the Senate last week and heads to the president's desk. Attention now turns to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Democrats are united ...
Republicans and Democrats in Nevada, North Dakota and South Carolina select their nominees on Tuesday, but much of the nation's political focus will be on Maine. Democrat Graham Platner is expected to emerge from the primary to take on five-term incumbent GOP ...
Donald Trump is set to be the first sitting U.S. president to attend an NBA Finals game, bringing strict security measures that will require New York Knicks fans to navigate an extensive safety perimeter around Madison Square Garden and an expected lengthy ...
Primaries for U.S. Senate and U.S. House on Tuesday will set the stage for a midterm general election in which Maine is expected to play a critical role in deciding control of both chambers.
The only group for whom trust in the CDC has increased over the past year are Republican voters — 67% this year, slightly up from 63% when the poll was conducted in April 2025
Dan Cogdell criticized Paxton for prioritizing loyalty to President Donald Trump over Texas families.
The ruling contradicts an earlier federal court decision in Washington, D.C. that denied the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's request to strike down the visa fee.
NPR's Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including Trump walking out under tough questioning on NBC's "Meet the Press," Democrats facing character questions ahead of a ...
Ripple effects and strong opinions are still flowing out of Trump's interview on NBC's Meet the Press over the weekend. Among the points of contention are Trump's baseless claims about the 2020 election results and the security of current elections. Lisa Desjardins ...
Trump is dismissing the idea that launching the war with Iran this year betrayed his refrain of "No new wars" that he made repeatedly as he campaigned again for the White House.
As the U.S. prepares for an extravagant celebration of its founding principles, fewer Americans see their country as exceptional, a new poll finds.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have underscored their commitment to deepen cooperation in a closely watched summit.
Two more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed hundreds of miles apart in Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping the spread of a pest that could potentially devastate the nation's cattle industry.
Republicans are warning the White House that a critical surveillance authority is likely to lapse this week amid bipartisan backlash over President Donald Trump's pick to lead the nation's intelligence community.
Prime Minister Albin Kurti's party won the most votes in an early parliamentary election in Kosovo on Sunday, early results showed.
Voters in Kosovo headed to the polls Sunday for an early parliamentary election, the third in less than 18 months, in an attempt to unlock a political impasse.
President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to Stephen Buyer, a former Republican congressman from Indiana who served nearly two years in prison for making illegal stock trades based on inside information after he left office.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a D-Day anniversary speech on Saturday to appear to link immigration by sea to the wartime liberation of Europe, warning that the freedom won by Allied troops could prove temporary if leaders failed to defend it.
Some Republicans joined Democrats in the 47-52 vote against a procedural motion that would have set up a final vote on the extension next week, complicating efforts to extend the critical program before it expires on June 12.
Last weekend, his campaign wrestled with stories about sexually explicit messages that Platner sent to several women while he was married. Then on Thursday, The New York Times reported about his relationships with previous girlfriends. Some viewed him positively but others described ...
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network — also known a FinCEN — issued an advisory Friday to banks that tells them to watch out for identity theft, payroll tax fraud, and money laundering schemes tied to hiring unauthorized workers.
A federal judge on Friday struck down a Trump administration policy enacted after the shooting of two National Guard members that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to stay and enter the U.S.
The U.S. military is waiting for clarity from the Pentagon following President Donald Trump's back-and-forth on troop levels in Europe, upending the lives of military personnel and potentially costing taxpayers millions of dollars, two U.S. defense officials told The Associated Press.
With just five months to go before consequential midterm elections in the U.S., Americans have grown increasingly frustrated by rising costs, and it's unclear if the strong job numbers this year will change their gloomy view of the economy.
"We love the farmers, we love everything about your state," President Donald Trump told his audience at a rally being held in a barn in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, on Friday.
For those aligned with Trump's campaign promise for the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history, it all but guarantees an uninterrupted flow of money to carry out the administration's immigration enforcement operations — and comes on top of some $170 billion ...
Millions are likely to lose coverage as states begin complying with the new federal rules.
David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including Republican defiance of President Donald Trump and fresh scandals in a key Senate race.
In our news wrap Friday, Senate Republicans passed a $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement, Trump said he wants his new acting director of national intelligence to slash the agency's staffing, a federal judge struck down the Trump administration's immigration processing ...
The Obama Presidential Center will open June 19, more than a decade after the former president chose his hometown of Chicago for the project.
Here's a closer look at the top attractions of the campus that is expected to draw as many as 1 million visitors annually.
Days after the state's primary, California voters are in a familiar position -- waiting to find out which candidates will go on to the general election in their most high-profile races, for governor and Los Angeles mayor.
The president's pick of Pulte to be the acting director of national intelligence has triggered pushback from some Republican and Democratic senators.
The vote came after nearly three hours of public comment from about 20 members of the public, some representing historic and architectural organizations, and most of whom expressed concerns about the arch that is one of several projects the Republican president is ...
The U.S. House on Wednesday voted to limit President Trump from further military action in Iran. One of the Republicans who voted for that resolution is Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania. He joins Amna Nawaz to discuss his vote and a recent ...
President Donald Trump's name must come off the Kennedy Center by June 12, according to a memo issued to the national arts center staff Thursday following a court ruling that found the rebrand was illegal.
In our news wrap Thursday, President Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton agreed to plead guilty to a felony count of illegally retaining classified information, U.S. officials say a flesh-eating insect detected in Texas livestock has not spread, Hezbollah rejects a ...
The Senate is in the midst of voting on $72 billion of funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as the Department of Homeland Security. The package has been held up for months with amendment votes expected to run well into ...
June is widely recognized as Pride Month, but a handful of Republican governors have bestowed alternative titles that both supporters and opponents view as counterprogramming.
The 226-195 vote is a sign of impatience with President Donald Trump's approach to the war and represents the House's second major foreign policy break with Trump this week.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent refused to say Wednesday whether President Donald Trump and his family would still get immunity from IRS audits after the administration abandoned plans for a $1.776 billion compensation fund that would have benefited the president's allies.
The narrow upset Tuesday revealed cracks in President Donald Trump's coalition in the deep-red state, encouraging Democrats who are hopeful they can flip control of the governor's office this year.
California's crowded primary for governor remained unresolved early Wednesday after three leading candidates tested voters' appetites for an experienced politician or promises of sweeping change.
"You know, we're building something in front of the White House that's quite attractive to a lot of people," Trump said in a video posted on Tuesday.
Spencer Pratt, a Republican and former star of the reality television show "The Hills," was second in early returns. Pratt accuses Bass of letting wildfires get out of control and failing to make enough progress on the homeless crisis.
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-California, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a tense exchange in a congressional hearing Wednesday over President Donald Trump dozing off in public appearances, like Cabinet meetings.
Writing on the Truth Social platform, Trump offered his "complete and total endorsement" for de la Espriella, calling him an "intelligent, strong and tough leader" who will take on a "radical leftist Marxist," referring to progressive Iván Cepeda, in the June 21 ...
Speaker Mike Johnson said on Wednesday he spent three hours at the White House with President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as the president is working on "that final piece" to reopen commerce in the ...
The House approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran, defying the president as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to end the three-month-long war that has reordered politics at home and abroad.
Bessent said he made the comment in the summer of 2025. President Donald Trump named Pulte acting director of national intelligence this week.
Republicans have won a partisan redistricting battle for Congress. The GOP could gain about 10 U.S. House seats in the upcoming November elections if the new voting districts perform as intended.
Primary voters in New Jersey on Tuesday finalized the race for one of the nation's most competitive seats, and one of the most unusual, because the incumbent Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. has not been seen on the campaign trail or Capitol ...
Half a dozen states held their primary elections Tuesday giving a clearer picture of how some of the nation's high-profile midterms races will shape up this fall. In California, ballots are still being counted in several key races chief among them the ...
On Tuesday, Democrats expressed deep skepticism of his ability to change the department, specifically its approach to immigration enforcement and its commitment to the rule of law.
The contours of a premier Senate race took shape in Iowa, while President Donald Trump's endorsement streak ran into a roadblock there.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer reiterated a confident message about Democrats' chances in a key Maine race despite recent controversies surrounding candidate Graham Platner.
Control of the Senate is at stake, with both parties eager to secure victories.
"We're not moving forward with the fund," acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said during a hearing before the House Appropriations Committee.
The federal goverment is giving French company TotalEnergies $1 billion — essentially a refund of its leases for offshore wind projects off New York and North Carolina — if it invests the money in fossil fuel projects instead.
Journalist Michael Edison Hayden has spent years tracking extremism in America. His new book, "Strange People on the Hill," follows what happened when a far-right group moved its headquarters to a small town in rural West Virginia. Amna Nawaz spoke with Hayden ...
A main campaign theme was lowering the cost of living in the state.
For years, researchers and advocates have documented the barriers students from immigrant families face when pursuing higher education. But the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign has introduced new challenges and fears, even for many immigrants who are legally in the United States. ...
President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have both touched down in Iowa this year to shore up Republican enthusiasm in the state's Senate race.
Tuesday's primary election also comes at a time of promise for the next governor: Elevated global oil prices from the Iran war have translated into an influx of tax revenue.
Democrats are banking on a rare chance to regain ground in Iowa, a rural state that has repeatedly eluded them in recent years. Republicans, meanwhile, are grappling with a New Jersey congressman whose unexplained absence could put their already slim majority at ...
The party won voter approval last year to redraw the state's congressional map to create five more winnable U.S. House seats. But some Democrats now worry that they could be locked out of the November ballot in one of those districts, near ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that "the United States right now is a global leader on AI," but "I think it is also wise to say that that lead is not irreversible."
Journalist Michael Edison Hayden spent years tracking extremism in America. His book, "Strange People on the Hill," is about what happened when a far-right group moved its headquarters to a small town in rural West Virginia. We're revisiting our conversation with Hayden, ...
The election takes place as the war in Iran continues to send gas prices soaring, creating an unanticipated windfall in the nation's No. 2 oil-producing state that the new governor will play a key role in managing.
South Dakota's governor, the speaker of the state House, the state's lone representative in Congress and a businessman will face off in a competitive Republican primary for governor on Tuesday.
Montana has not been at the top of the list of seats Democrats hope to flip to regain control of either body, but the retirements do creak open the door for a candidate to possibly take advantage of the state's independent streak.
New Jersey voters will nominate candidates for both chambers of Congress in a state primary on Tuesday, including in one key battleground district that could decide control of the U.S. House.
The winners will compete in November's critical midterm elections, in which Iowa's U.S. Senate and House seats could determine control of the narrowly divided chambers.
Two candidates for California governor will emerge from a massive field of 61 hopefuls in a state primary on Tuesday, when voters will also select U.S. House nominees using a new map they approved in a 2025 ballot measure.
The Republican former senator will sit before House and Senate committees to make the State Department's annual budget request. But the focus is likely to shift quickly to the already unsteady ceasefire between Washington and Tehran, which has been further tested in ...
Pulte's current role involves ensuring the soundness of the mortgage market, but he morphed into a megaphone who went after the Republican president's perceived political foes.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is testifying before the Senate on the agency's budget Tuesday.
A Trump administration policy illegally banned transgender troops from military service, a divided panel of federal appeal court judges ruled on Monday.
President Donald Trump said Monday that Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to dial back fighting after he held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and communicated with the Lebanon-militant group through mediators.
The almost 50 U.S. embassies and consulates that are processing visa applications in Africa will be reduced to 20 "hubs" in the coming weeks, according to three U.S. officials and an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.
The many candidates running for California governor rushed to deliver their closing arguments to voters in the race's final days before the June 2 primary.
The announcement from the Justice Department comes in response to a Friday court ruling by a federal judge in Virginia who ordered plans for the fund halted pending additional arguments later this month.
South Carolina's Republican candidates for governor will take part in a debate hosted by public media station SCETV Monday.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune indicated Monday he was hopeful the White House would move to drop the $1.776 billion settlement fund designed to compensate Trump's allies.
The potential retreat is a recognition of the legal setbacks the fund has encountered since it was announced two weeks ago.
NPR's Tamara Keith and Jasmine Wright of NOTUS join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including President Trump's control of congressional Republicans, partisan politics and Freedom 250.
The world is getting more uptight about lending money to President Donald Trump's government.
New rules proposed by the U.S. Postal Service would make states give data on voters who receive mail-in ballots for federal elections. This after President Trump tightened mail-in voting rules with a stated goal of making more secure elections. But a new ...
President Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund established by the Department of Justice has hit a setback. The DOJ said Monday they will abide by a court ruling temporarily pausing payouts that could have gone to Jan. 6 defendants and other Trump supporters. ...
Several survivors of Epstein's abuse appeared outside the House office room where the interview happened behind closed doors. They pressed the committee chair, Republican Rep. James Comer, to closely question Bondi.
Pam Bondi was on Capitol Hill for a closed-door interview in which she defended the administration's actions before House lawmakers who are scrutinizing a process that was delayed and included personal information of potential victims.
Approval of the new House map came a month after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state's current map as an illegal racial gerrymander, weakening the landmark 1965 federal Voting Rights Act.
A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's name was illegally added to the Kennedy Center and blocked the administration from closing the cultural and arts venue for major renovations.
A federal judge has said that New Hampshire must make voter registration easier by allowing applicants to attest to their U.S. citizenship if they don't have the documents to prove it.
Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW and Wall Street Journal opinion columnist Matthew Continetti join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including midterm primary elections showing more signs of strength for President Trump within the GOP, James Talarico's chances against Ken ...
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi defended the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation during a closed-door interview with lawmakers. Bondi said the department under her leadership remained committed to securing justice for Epstein's victims, but she declined to answer questions ...
In our news wrap Friday, a federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center to remove Donald Trump's name from the building, the U.S. and Iran appear to still be far apart on a potential deal to end the conflict and Romania says that ...
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi stood behind the Trump administration's release of the case files on Jeffrey Epstein as she testified Friday before House lawmakers scrutinizing a process that was delayed and included personal information of potential victims.
Democrats gathering this weekend in South Carolina are likely to be jubilant following the failure of a GOP-led effort to redraw House district lines more favorably to Republicans.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from paying any claims through a new $1.776 billion settlement fund for the Republican president's allies who believe they were victims of a weaponized government.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he's holding a White House Situation Room meeting with his advisors as he looks to make a "final determination" on moving forward with a deal to extend the Iran ceasefire.
As Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass seeks a second term, she isn't sidestepping the obvious: her tenure at city hall has been difficult. "I haven't always got it right," she says plainly.
The Michigan governor is term-limited and will be leaving office at the end of this year. For months, she has offered only cautious answers about her political future. But on Thursday she gave her clearest response yet.
The sanctions were announced late Wednesday after U.S. forces carried out strikes on an Iran military facility after downing Iranian attack drones, according to U.S. officials who were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
A key inflation gauge accelerated in April to the highest level in three years, squeezing Americans' finances and creating political challenges for President Trump and congressional Republicans with midterm elections just five months away.
Texas Democrat James Talarico, a former middle school teacher and a state lawmaker from Austin, laid out a clear strategy for the months ahead: Litigating Paxton's scandals to a weary electorate.
The Power to the People festival is set for Oct. 3 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Maryland. It will focus on "freedom, justice, equality and rock 'n' roll," and a portion of the proceeds will benefit VoteRiders and HeadCount.
Though voting began in early May ahead of the June 2 primary, Democrats have been returning their ballots at a slower pace than normal after a chaotic campaign full of surprises. Unlike recent races for governor, there's been no clear front-runner or ...
The Department of Justice alleges in separate lawsuits announced Thursday that Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington state are imposing unconstitutional restrictions that it says impede law enforcement and threaten agents' safety.
In 2024, massive pro-Palestinian protests swept college campuses across the country, including at Columbia University. As the Trump administration intensified its immigration enforcement efforts, several non-citizen student protesters were taken into ICE detention. Leqaa Kordia was one of them and remained detained ...
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to give a closed-door interview Friday over her handling of the federal government's investigation into the late, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Earlier this month, President Trump disclosed that his trust actively traded individual stocks. It's an unprecedented practice for a sitting U.S. president in the modern era and is raising concerns about how his actions and public statements could benefit his financial holdings. ...
Win or lose, billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer will leave a mark in the history books in his bid to become California's next governor — he's running the most expensive political advertising campaign in the country this year.
So much Trump winning. So much Republican losing.
Two key senators involved in a long-simmering debate over fixing college sports will introduce a bipartisan bill designed to break a congressional logjam that would regulate payments to players, limit them to one "free" transfer over their careers and create a "Lane ...
When President Donald Trump's administration announced last week that it would require green card seekers to apply from their home countries instead of in the U.S., immigration attorney Flavia Santos Lloyd's phone began ringing off the hook with clients worried about the ...
President Trump again proved his political power in Texas as his endorsed candidate in the Senate primary won in a landslide. Ken Paxton secured the GOP nomination, beating incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. Paxton will face Democratic nominee James Talarico in the fall ...
Sen. John Cornyn tried for more than a year to show Donald Trump and Texas Republicans that he and the president were on the same team.
National Democrats stepped in to help Garcia win House nomination as the party was seeking to defeat his rival, Maureen Galindo, who has repeatedly expressed antisemitic views.
As he prepares to huddle with his top aides, President Donald Trump is projecting confidence that he's closing in on a deal that will reopen the Strait of Hormuz and provide him a credible argument that Iran's nuclear capability has been diminished ...
His comments come as the United States and Iran try to strike a deal to end the conflict that has engulfed the Middle East for the last three months.
On Tuesday, he won the Democratic primary for Texas' 33rd District.
President Donald Trump hopes the unusual mid-decade redistricting can help Republicans retain control of the closely divided House, despite negative approval ratings and historical tendencies for the incumbent's party to lose seats
Advocacy groups for the country's Afrikaner white minority on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration's position that there's a humanitarian emergency affecting white people in South Africa.
Under previous maps, Green and Menefee had served in neighboring districts before the state's Republican lawmakers redrew the state's congressional maps in an effort to create more Republican-leaning seats.
The state's Republican leadership filed an emergency appeal with the justices a day after a three-judge court refused to let the state use a map it adopted three years ago that has a majority Black population in just one of its seven ...
President Donald Trump's tightening grip on his party could make it harder to win in the November midterms, when Republicans face a broader electorate that has soured on the president's second term and the economy.
The case the court turned away Tuesday stems from a crash in Florida last year that killed three people.
Federal Trade Commission chairman Andrew Ferguson announced during the roundtable that the Department of Justice has created a new National Fraud Enforcement division.
The ad was pulled by New England Sports Network, which is owned predominantly by Fenway Sports Group, a conglomerate that also owns the Red Sox and Liverpool of the Premier League.
The Supreme Court has rejected a push to avoid a lawsuit alleging that Facebook and Instagram harmed young users, a decision that comes as social media companies increasingly face legal scrutiny.
Settle In is going on a brief summer break. We're gearing up to return later this summer with more of the candid interviews you've come to enjoy. Until then, here are five of our favorite moments from Settle In so far with ...
The Southern Poverty Law Center says a Justice Department indictment against the group is part of a "top-down" campaign of retribution against President Donald Trump's perceived political enemies and represents a vindictive prosecution that must be dismissed.
A three-judge panel in the state's long-running redistricting case issued the preliminary injunction that prevents the state, at least for now, from switching maps.
Congress has yet to enact a stock trading ban for its members, though insider trading is already illegal for members just like it is for anyone else.
The Congressional Black Caucus is calling on major corporations in the United States to oppose redistricting efforts by Republican-led states that seek to eliminate majority-Black U.S. House districts.
The Trump administration wants all current and future federal employees to sign non-disclosure agreements, part of a continuing crackdown on leaks to the media.
The proposal passed the South Carolina House on May 20 after two days of long debate. But senators on Tuesday were more skeptical of the effort.
Along with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, events include a national observance in the Memorial Amphitheater.