Donald Trump headlined an event billed as the unveiling of a crypto platform promoted by the Republican nominee and his sons, putting the spotlight on a niche digital-asset sector with a history of controversy.

The project, World Liberty Financial, will be part of the decentralized finance segment of digital assets and is supposed to help with ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean said Monday she wants the congressional task force already investigating the Butler County assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump to look into Sunday's assassination attempt at his Florida golf club.

"Certainly we are looking at the same very related sets of issues, so to me it makes sense to ...Read more

A group of former members of Congress wants action before the end of this session on legislation barring lawmakers from owning or trading individual stocks.

The former lawmakers, organized by Issue One, a Washington-based political reform group, on Monday sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Minority Leader ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden soaked up energy from a crowd of hundreds in Philadelphia who lauded his investment in Historically Black Colleges and Universities on Monday as he solidifies his legacy as a supporter of these institutions.

Standing on a stage between two American flags and screens projecting him, Biden addressed a crowd of...Read more

A sharp-eyed Secret Service agent spotted a rifle barrel poking through the fence, likely foiling a second assassination attempt on Donald Trump on Sunday as he played a round of golf at his course near West Palm Beach.

Ryan Routh, Trump’s would-be assassin, fled before firing a shot and was quickly found and placed under arrest.

Sunday’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Attorneys for the House and the Justice Department told a federal judge Monday that a monthslong subpoena fight has so far taken up hundreds of attorney hours at an approximate cost of more than $443,000.

The declarations were filed in response to an order from Judge Ana Reyes of the U.S. District Court for the District of ...Read more

The second assassination attempt on Donald Trump sparked calls from President Joe Biden and lawmakers to bolster the Secret Service protection for the former president with either more resources, strategic changes or more agency oversight.

Senators on the appropriations panel that oversees the Secret Service funding, in the wake of the first ...Read more

Federal agents investigating an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Sunday in West Palm Beach still face troubling questions over 24 hours after apprehending Ryan Wesley Routh, the chief suspect in the case, as they probe his motives, his methods and whether he acted alone in his alleged plot to kill the Republican Party ...Read more

The man who went to former President Trump’s golf course allegedly intent on killing him staked him out from a row of trees on the edge of the course for more than 11 1/2 hours, biding his time undetected until an agent saw his rifle poking out of the greenery, prosecutors said Monday.

As Ryan Wesley Routh was charged in federal court Monday,...Read more

TikTok headed to court on Sept. 16, 2024, in a bid to overturn a law that would force the video app to divorce from its China-based parent company or be banned in the U.S.

During the appearance before a panel of judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, layers for TikTok said imposing such a prohibition...Read more

The accused gunman suspected in an attempted assassination plot against former president Donald Trump claimed he had fought on the front lines of Ukraine, built tiny houses for homeless people in Hawaii and had a long rap sheet, including an arrest for possession of a weapon of mass destruction, according to public records.

Ryan Wesley Routh, ...Read more

California’s 13th Congressional District, home to one of the nation’s closest House of Representatives races in 2022, is expected to be just as hotly contested this fall.

Nonpartisan political analysts say that the 2024 rematch election between freshman Rep. John Duarte, R-Modesto, and former Assemblyman Adam Gray, D-Merced, is a tossup.

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President Joe Biden has given the first-ever interview by a sitting president to an LGBT newspaper, telling the Washington Blade that he believes LGBTQ people are more courageous than others because they have overcome homophobic bigotry and other obstacles.

“Most of the openly gay people that have worked with me, that I’ve worked with, the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House task force now investigating a pair of assassination attempts on former President Donald Trump says the Secret Service needs greater resources with fewer than 50 days to Election Day, with federal officials citing a heightened threat environment after a would-be assassin was arrested in Florida Sunday almost two months ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are starting this week the way they spent much of last week — in Pennsylvania.

Biden on Monday is to address the annual National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week conference in Philadelphia. Before his visit, he announced $1.3 billion in new funding for HBCUs,...Read more

When Joe Manning got to work on Wednesday, he sat down and penned an email to a city manager 220 miles away in Springfield, Ohio.

It was the day after the presidential debate in Philadelphia, where former President Donald Trump propagated the repeatedly debunked and incendiary false claim that Haitian migrants in Springfield were eating the ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis expressed doubts Monday about the federal government’s ability to fairly and objectively investigate the apparent assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.

His solution: Florida will conduct its own state investigation into the Sunday incident at Trump’s golf club near West Palm Beach.

DeSantis ...Read more

The Ohio town where Donald Trump alleged Haitian migrants are eating cats and dogs canceled its annual cultural festival due to safety concerns.

“In light of recent threats and safety concerns, the city of Springfield has made the difficult decision to cancel this year’s CultureFest celebration,” city officials posted on social media. “...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers and stakeholders had mixed reactions to a Biden administration announcement imposing tighter restrictions on a de minimis threshold that allows foreign goods to enter the U.S. duty-free.

The administration also urged Congress to enact legislation by the end of the year, saying the proposed changes to rules don’t go ...Read more