WASHINGTON — Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, at risk of further distancing himself from President Donald Trump as his primary election draws closer, says the administration isn’t doing enough to restrict access to abortion pills.

Cassidy, one of the few remaining Republicans in Congress who voted to convict Trump at his impeachment trial after...Read more

A federal employee in New Hampshire was arrested after emailing a death threat to the White House and conducting Google searches related to killing President Trump, the U.S. Attorney for the district of New Hampshire announced.

Nashua-resident Dean DelleChiaie, 35, a Federal Aviation Administration employee, appeared in federal court Tuesday on...Read more

U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz is preparing to run for reelection in a new congressional district that runs along the coast in South Florida — even though it was crafted by Republicans to thwart his return to Congress.

If the courts allow the Republican redistricting plan to go into effect, a Moskowitz spokesperson said the Democratic congressman ...Read more

A South Florida man faces federal charges after allegedly posting death threats against President Donald Trump and other Cabinet officials on his social media, federal prosecutors said.

Nathaniel Sanders II, 32, of Miami Beach, is charged with threatening the president of the United States and transmitting threats in interstate commerce.

The ...Read more

Rep. Mike Levin, D-San Juan Capistrano, is looking for a fifth two-year term. He is the only Democrat in the June primary again this year in the 49th Congressional District, which includes much of northern San Diego County and southern Orange County.

Two Republicans, Armen Kurdian and Star Parker, will face off in the primary for the right to ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Josh Shapiro is facing questions about whether he tried to help elect a Republican candidate over a member of his own party who had publicly criticized him, after an audio recording of a top labor leader leaked this week alleging that the first-term Democratic governor pushed his union to support the GOP candidate for ...Read more

A top Senate Republican has proposed spending as much as $1 billion for U.S. Secret Service security adjustments and upgrades, including for President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom.

The funding would come in legislation authored by Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who on Monday released language for his panel’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has mostly shrugged off rising gasoline prices since his conflict with Iran began over two months ago, giving Republicans political heartburn ahead of the midterm elections as prices are up again this week amid new tensions over the Strait of Hormuz.

As gas prices continue to tick up, with the cost of a ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Steven Lefemine has quoted the Bible and sung hymns.

In his yearslong quest to overturn a criminal conviction in federal court for blocking a Columbia abortion clinic’s door, he has fought the good fight.

But now man’s law has won — again.

Late last week, a 2-1 ruling by a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ...Read more

Democratic congressional lawmakers Tuesday overwhelmingly urged the conservative Supreme Court to maintain access to abortion medication as the justices consider whether to put on hold an appeals court ruling that would ban receiving it by mail.

All 47 Democratic senators and 212 Democratic House lawmakers signed a petition calling on the the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court often resembles a feuding family where the same heated arguments go on for years.

The justices disagree over race, religion, abortion, guns and the environment, and more recently, presidential power and LGBTQ+ rights. And while they try to maintain a cordial working relationship, they don't claim to be good ...Read more

A proposal by Rep. Johnny Olszewski Jr. to impose term limits on U.S. Supreme Court justices is opening a familiar partisan divide, with the Democrat framing it as a needed fix and a Maryland Republican calling it an overreaction to recent rulings.

Legislation introduced by the freshman Baltimore County lawmaker would establish 18-year term ...Read more

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rival Mamata Banerjee refused to resign as West Bengal’s chief minister a day after she was defeated by the ruling party in state elections, alleging the polls were manipulated.

“I haven’t lost,” Banerjee told reporters in Kolkata on Tuesday. She alleged irregularities during vote counting on ...Read more

Two Republican-led Senate committees late Monday released legislative text to flesh out a nearly $70 billion reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement agencies at the Department of Homeland Security through the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term.

The Senate Judiciary Committee text shows that panel’s piece of the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With just 28 days till election day, the Los Angeles mayor's race is heating up this week as leading candidates face off in debates that will highlight their diverging visions on issues such as public safety and homelessness.

The debates are taking on added importance with polls showing large numbers of voters haven't made up ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court’s new decision gutting a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act clears the way for state officials to drastically reshape not only Congress but also state legislatures, county commissions, city councils and even local school boards.

The ruling, released last week in a case called Louisiana v. Callais, dismantled...Read more

Within an hour of an armed man’s attempt to storm the White House correspondents’ dinner while President Donald Trump and administration officials were on stage last weekend, Steven Barber said he received 10 calls from people wanting him to make them statues of the president.

“Whenever bullets fly around Trump, I get contacted by MAGA ...Read more

Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel ramped up his rhetoric this weekend, calling the current U.S. administration “fascist,” after President Donald Trump suggested, apparently in jest, that he could send a U.S. aircraft carrier “on its way back from Iran” and easily take the island.

While recognizing attendees at an event in Palm Beach Friday...Read more