CHICAGO — Two independent candidates aiming to give voters more choices in the Illinois 4th Congressional District race are still fighting to keep their names on the November ballot — casualties, they say, of the same hardball political maneuvering that delivered the Democratic nomination to outgoing U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García’s ...Read more

Law enforcement officials frequently draw virtual fences around areas of interest and require Google to identify every cellphone in the area using cell location history. Dubbed a “geofence search,” officers obtain a warrant that permits a multistep, give-and-take information sharing process between officers and tech employees that winnows...Read more

As we wrote here last week, public safety must ultimately fall on the shoulders of Chicago mayors. More bureaucracy — in the form of the new stand-alone Department of Gun Violence Reduction — while well-intentioned, isn’t the panacea to what plagues our city, especially as whoever is appointed head of this new department will enjoy too ...Read more

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court last week let President Donald Trump put another nail in the coffin of America’s humanitarian asylum program and allowed him to end Temporary Protected Status for some 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians in the country, who could now be sent back to life-threatening conditions abroad.

The TPS decision has...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — In a rare public appearance in Philadelphia, Democratic U.S. Sen. John Fetterman joined Republican U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick at a youth basketball camp in Nicetown on Monday to promote Trump Accounts, the new federally backed savings accounts for kids that became law with the president’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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Kansas City Democrat Hartzell Gray emphasized his Democratic Socialist policy platform in a wide-ranging interview with controversial pundit Hasan Piker on Sunday.

Gray, a former radio host, activist and community organizer, is seeking the Democratic nomination for Missouri’s 4th Congressional District. Gray is endorsed by Kansas City’s ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to a Washington state law aimed at helping transgender or pregnant runaway teens to access emergency shelter.

The 2023 law drew national media attention and backlash, including dueling protests at the state Capitol, a failed repeal effort and federal legal challenges brought by parents...Read more

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Monday formally transmitted to the White House the bipartisan housing package that President Donald Trump refused to sign last week.

That triggers a 10-day clock, excluding Sundays, for Trump to either sign or veto the bill; if he does neither, it will become law without his signature by July 10.

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WASHINGTON — Online safety legislation focused on children and teens that has come under fire from key senators passed the House Monday, setting the stage for continued wrangling as Congress seeks to address concerns raised by parent and free speech groups.

The bipartisan legislation, which Energy and Commerce Committee leadership amended ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump refused to commit to signing a major bipartisan housing bill, heightening uncertainty surrounding the fate of the legislation.

Trump told reporters Monday he had yet to decide on the measure, but again denigrated it, saying it was “so unimportant” compared to a voting bill he is pressuring the U.S. ...Read more

LIMA, Peru — Conservative Keiko Fujimori won Peru’s presidential election by a slim margin in her fourth bid for the highest office in the copper-rich nation.

Fujimori received 50.14% of the vote, according to the full count by the electoral agency ONPE on Monday, after a lengthy review of thousands of disputed ballots from the June 7 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate Ethics Committee has dismissed a complaint against Sen. Ruben Gallego following an investigation of “alleged campaign finance violations and inappropriate conduct of a sexual nature,” according to a letter released by the Arizona Democrat.

The probe came as Congress grappled with a wave of sexual harassment ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court will weigh in on a legal battle over one of Colorado’s critical water sources as a neighboring state seeks to use more water from the South Platte River.

The nation’s highest court on Monday announced it would hear the case, in which Nebraska officials claim Colorado water administrators are violating a century-old ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A judicial election watchdog group continues to raise concerns about partisanship creeping into Kentucky judicial elections.

The most recent example includes fundraising efforts by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear for current Court of Appeals Judge Will Moynahan, the group said in a June 27 news release.

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President Donald Trump reached the end of a long road gridlocked by appeals and must pay $5 million to E. Jean Carroll after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a civil jury’s verdict that he sexually assaulted her.

The nation’s highest court declined to take up Trump’s appeal of the May 2023 verdict at a Manhattan Federal Court ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced it will wrap up decisions for the term Tuesday, which is expected to include a ruling on a case over President Donald Trump’s push to unilaterally alter birthright citizenship.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Monday announced the last day for opinions, which is likely to include rulings on party...Read more

LIMA, Peru — Conservative Keiko Fujimori won Peru’s presidential election by a slim margin in her fourth bid for the highest office in the copper-rich nation.

Fujimori received 50.14% of the vote, according to the full count by the electoral agency ONPE on Monday, after a lengthy review of thousands of disputed ballots from the June 7 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cast doubt Monday on whether police may obtain cellphone data to find crime suspects.

In a 6-3 decision, the justices said this location data showing where a cellphone user has traveled is personal and private and subject to the protection of the 4th Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches.

Justice Elena ...Read more

California officials cheered a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday that allows states to continue counting mail ballots postmarked by election day but received in the days after — calling it a win for voter participation and access, including in the upcoming November midterm.

They also acknowledged delays in recent vote counting have spurred ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz's defamation suit against CNN, refusing to reconsider the high bar for press freedom set in the New York Times vs. Sullivan case.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch dissented.

The no-comment decision may signal the justices are not anxious to...Read more