MINNEAPOLIS — James Hepworth says he’s become one of the most popular people in Rep. Angie Craig’s 2nd Congressional District since she announced she’s considering running for retiring U.S. Sen. Tina Smith’s seat.

As the district’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party chair, Hepworth said multiple people have reached out to him about ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that he plans to withhold all federal funding to sanctuary cities, a move that would pressure finances from New York to San Francisco.

“No more Sanctuary Cities! They protect the Criminals, not the Victims,” the president said in a post on Truth Social on Thursday. “They are disgracing our ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Michigan U.S. Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet has ruled out a run for U.S. Senate and will instead run for reelection to the House, she said Thursday.

The first-term Democrat from Bay City had been actively exploring a Senate for at least the last month after Michigan's senior senator, Gary Peters, a Bloomfield Township Democrat, ...Read more

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Thursday that she stood by in the Oval Office a day earlier as President Donald Trump signed a series of memos targeting his political enemies because she wanted to advocate on behalf of the residents of Michigan.

"It was not where I wanted to be or planned to be or would have liked to have ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday adopted the resolution Republicans needed to get moving on their sweeping budget bill to enact many of their top legislative priorities, after several days of negotiations with conservative holdouts.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said his chamber would adhere to the House’s much-higher floor for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said his tariffs may cause “transition problems” but expressed confidence in his plan, after the White House clarified U.S. tariffs on China rose to 145%.

“There’ll be a transition cost, and transition problems, but in the end it’s going to be a beautiful thing,” Trump said Thursday during a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Gov. Gavin Newsom promised action last week in response to President Donald Trump’s dramatic decision to increase tariffs on trading partners worldwide. But does he have any power to protect California’s economy if Trump goes through with them?

His response was swift and forceful, one of the first from a Democratic governor ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday adopted the resolution Republicans needed to get moving on their sweeping budget bill to enact many of their top legislative priorities, after several days of negotiations with conservative holdouts.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said his chamber would adhere to the House’s much-higher floor for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Despite a self-inflicted delay last week, House Republicans on Thursday passed legislation aimed at stopping noncitizens from voting in federal elections, a priority pursued by President Donald Trump.

Known as the SAVE Act, it would require people to provide proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote. Democrats have railed ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Rep. Ilhan Omar will run for re-election to her House seat next fall, closing the door on a possible run for retiring Sen. Tina Smith’s U.S. Senate seat.

“At a time when our rights are under attack, it is more important than ever to fight back against the chaos, corruption, and callousness of the Trump administration,” ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday adopted the resolution Republicans needed to get moving on their sweeping budget bill to enact many of their top legislative priorities, after several days of negotiations with conservative holdouts.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said his chamber would adhere to the House’s much-higher floor for ...Read more

It's high time commentators stopped trying to shoehorn the American polity into a paradigm that doesn't fit. President Donald Trump's brand of government is as new and unique as it is volatile and disturbing. Sometimes, history neither repeats nor rhymes. Sometimes, a whole new species bursts onto the scene.

What we're seeing today with Trump ...Read more

We are very relieved that the Supreme Court has made the decision to keep in place an existing appeals court ruling that upheld New York’s so-called “sensitive locations” concealed firearm ban, which prohibited carrying hidden guns in parks, hospitals, stadiums and other such locations, as well as a requirement for permit holders to show �...Read more

Increasingly it is clear that the only checks on the unconstitutional acts of the Trump administration will come from the courts. But will the conservative Roberts court, with three justices appointed by Donald Trump, be willing to stop the president’s illegal acts?

The answer is unclear, although a ruling on Friday afternoon is disturbing ...Read more

Since the Trump administration has refused to guarantee that people being picked and deported using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act have the right to appear before a judge, the U.S. Supreme Court must.

In a short decision issued Monday, the high court vacated the order of D.C. Federal Judge James Boasberg that had prevented Homeland Security from ...Read more

House GOP leaders punted on trying to adopt the Senate-revised budget blueprint Wednesday after a long day of negotiations didn’t bear enough fruit to overcome the objections of more than enough spending hawks to sink the measure in the closely divided chamber.

Conservative holdouts met separately with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Senate President Don Harmon said Wednesday that he disagrees with Illinois election officials who said he collected millions of dollars more in campaign contributions last year than he was allowed to under a state law designed to curtail big-money influence in Illinois politics, but he maintained he is taking the issue “...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at relaxing rules that limit water flow for shower heads, targeting an issue he has long complained makes it harder for him to properly wash his hair.

The order ends water conservation standards that restrict the number of gallons per minute that are allowed to flow through shower heads, ...Read more