ATLANTA — Frustrated with what he calls a lack of urgency in Washington, the former chair of Georgia’s largest school district jumped into the race Wednesday to unseat U.S. Rep. David Scott — mounting a generational challenge against one of the state’s longest-serving Democrats.

Everton Blair, the first Black and openly gay member of ...Read more

The Trump administration ruined what should have been a good spring in the Klamath River basin.

By abruptly laying off federal personnel and freezing payments for already authorized programs and projects, the administration replaced a budding sense of hopefulness in the basin with fear and uncertainty, and tore at fragile bonds years in the ...Read more

Iran said it won’t be drawn into negotiations with the U.S. over its ability to enrich uranium and warned that fledgling nuclear talks with Washington may fall apart if the Trump administration “moves the goalposts.”

In two separate statements on Wednesday, senior Iranian officials signaled that fresh diplomatic efforts aimed at resolving...Read more

Sen. Cory Booker’s record-breaking, 25-hour Senate floor speech, which began on March 31, 2025, and ended on April 1, momentarily snatched the national spotlight from President Donald Trump.

The ever-churning national news cycle has already moved on from the spectacle.

But as communication studies scholars, we believe Booker...Read more

WASHINGTON — When House Republicans united last month to back a full-year stopgap funding measure on a mostly party-line vote, 17 of them did something they’d never done before: vote for a spending bill that became law.

In the Senate, Republicans Mike Lee of Utah and Eric Schmitt of Missouri likewise voted for such a bill for the first time...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayoral candidate Scott Stringer is proposing a new zoning designation to block President Donald Trump from auctioning off federal buildings to luxury developers, the Daily News has learned.

The plan, dubbed Safeguarding Historic Infrastructure through Effective Land-use Defenses, or SHIELD, would create a new “federal use” ...Read more

Iran said it won’t be drawn into negotiations with the U.S. over its ability to enrich uranium, a sign the diplomatic effort to resolve a years-long nuclear standoff may have hit its first stumbling block.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said he’d heard contradictory positions from his U.S. counterpart, Steve Witkoff, since a first ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday is expected to announce a lawsuit contesting President Donald Trump's executive authority to enact international tariffs without congressional approval.

The governor's office said the legal action will argue that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which Trump cited to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Like much else in the nation’s capital, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is in a state of uncertainty. For 53 years, this massive performance complex has served — with bipartisan grace and, at its best, conspicuous American flair — to honor a single U.S. president. But in February the center was ...Read more

As an economist, I know that information is key to our free-market system. If a business makes a good product sold at a fair price, it makes a profit. If it sells an inferior product or charges more than competitors, buyers turn away. Businesses must be responsive to consumer demands.

A democratic political system operates similarly. In this ...Read more

CHICAGO — Former President Joe Biden sought Tuesday to use an audience in Chicago of national advocates for the disabled to reestablish himself as a leading party voice to challenge the actions of President Donald Trump amid listless Democratic leadership in taking on Biden’s successor in the White House.

“Look what’s happening. In ...Read more

President Donald Trump wants Congress to change a policy that gives certain drugs longer protection from drug price negotiations in Medicare, a fix that could address one of the drug industry’s top complaints with the Biden-era law.

Trump directed his health secretary to work with lawmakers to end the differential treatment for small molecule...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican former Rep. Mayra Flores, who last year narrowly lost a second bid to reclaim a South Texas seat, announced Tuesday that she’s running again, though from a different district.

Later in the afternoon, however, her campaign disclosed that Flores had been hospitalized, without providing any additional details.

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The chants echoed through the Missouri House chamber.

“Stand up, fight back.”

“Who’s house is this? Our house.”

“Yes on 3.”

The Missouri House on Tuesday advanced a Republican-led plan to overturn a November vote that legalized abortion access during an explosive debate in which a crowd of abortion ...Read more

Just over 100 days since she left Congress, Yadira Caraveo wants to head back to Washington, D.C.

On Tuesday, the Colorado Democrat announced her candidacy for the 8th Congressional District race in 2026. She’s seeking a return to the post she held for the first two years of the district’s existence, from 2023 until her loss by a whisker to...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s second-term governing doctrine could be summed up by these nine words the president uttered last week: “No one leads us. We do what we want.”

That’s been Team Trump’s approach, so far, at home and abroad — drawing praise from congressional Republicans and scorn from many Democrats, with his 100th day ...Read more

Many Americans think President Donald Trump’s administration has ignored a court order concerning deportations — and most think it will disregard future orders, according to new polling.

In an April 12 YouGov poll, 44% of respondents said, as far as they know, the Trump administration had “disobeyed any court orders when deporting ...Read more

NEW YORK — If “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” director Chris Columbus had his way, Donald Trump would be removed from the classic film.

The award-winning filmmaker, also known for “Mrs. Doubtfire” and the “Harry Potter” film series, said the President’s 7 second appearance in the 1992 movie has “become this curse. It’s ...Read more

The Trump administration backed away Tuesday from comments by its top Middle East envoy that the U.S. will focus on restricting Iran’s uranium enrichment and missile capability rather than dismantling its entire nuclear program.

“This is going to be much about verification on the enrichment program, and then ultimately verification on ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan House Oversight Committee authorized the issuance of a subpoena Tuesday for election training materials provided to Michigan clerks by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's office.

The subpoena, the first issued by the oversight panel since House Republicans came into power in January, comes after months of back ...Read more