FORT WORTH, Texas — U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett and state Rep. James Talarico will debate for the first time on Saturday afternoon, as they bid to represent Texans in the U.S. Senate.

Crockett and Talarico are the front-runners in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat that is currently held by Sen. John Cornyn, a longtime Republican ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday defended his findings that President Trump “willfully broke the law” in his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, telling lawmakers that Republican efforts to discredit the probe are “false and misleading.”

“No one should be above the law in our...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he has finished interviewing candidates to serve as the next Federal Reserve chair and reiterated that he has someone in mind for the job.

“I’ll be telling you soon. I have somebody that I think will be very good but I’m not going to reveal it,” Trump told reporters Thursday.

“It’s someone...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon will take aim at a contracting program that’s become a critical part of the business portfolios for many Alaska Native corporations.

“We’re actually taking a sledgehammer to the oldest DEI program in the federal government,” Hegseth said in a video posted to social media on Jan. 16, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It was Thursday morning and Mike Johnson had a problem — again.

An increasingly familiar scene was playing out on the House floor, as a handful of holdouts threatened to tank a procedural vote that once would have held little drama. What was supposed to be a 5-minute vote stretched into 20 minutes, then 25.

Working their way ...Read more

WASHINGTON — John L. “Jack” Smith delivered a full-throated defense of his investigation into President Donald Trump on Thursday, telling the House Judiciary Committee he stands by his decisions as special counsel and “took actions based on the facts and the law.”

Smith, testifying publicly for the first time about investigations that...Read more

President Donald Trump sued JPMorgan Chase & Co. and its chief executive officer, Jamie Dimon, for at least $5 billion over allegations that the lender stopped offering him and his businesses banking services for political reasons.

The complaint, filed Thursday, accuses the bank of trade libel and breach of implied covenant of good faith. It ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Challengers to California’s new congressional map asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block the state from using its new map in this fall’s election, pressing claims the state racially gerrymandered its new map.

The map, passed by ballot initiative last year, would target seats held by five Republicans in the state and was...Read more

Former special counsel Jack Smith said President Donald Trump clearly broke the law in the 2020 election conspiracy case and subsequent classified documents case, and defended his investigation in a politically charged appearance Thursday before a Republican-led congressional committee.

Delivering a scathing indictment of the once and current ...Read more

Members of the congressional Haiti and Black caucuses announced Thursday that they are pursuing a petition to attempt to force a House vote aimed at protecting hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the United States from losing their temporary immigration protections.

The effort is being led by New York Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley, who ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In the months leading up to the 2024 election, many Republicans tried to play off abortion as a lesser campaign priority following the backlash to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.

But one year into President Donald Trump’s second term, anti-abortion advocates are aiming to push the issue back ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and European leaders broke up this week. Or, at the very least, the longtime members of the trans-Atlantic alliance are taking a break.

The American diplomat in chief spent two days at a global summit in Switzerland ushering in a new U.S. foreign policy, one based more on individual transactions and less on...Read more

WASHINGTON — John L. “Jack” Smith delivered a full-throated defense of his investigation into President Donald Trump on Thursday, telling the House Judiciary Committee he stands by his decisions as special counsel and “took actions based on the facts and the law.”

Smith, testifying publicly for the first time about investigations that...Read more

WASHINGTON — A House committee took a step on Wednesday toward restricting exports of certain artificial intelligence semiconductor chips to China, a policy proposal that has a prominent opponent in the Trump White House.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 42-2, with one member voting present, to advance a bill that would call for the ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would refrain from imposing tariffs on goods from European nations opposing his effort to take possession of Greenland, citing a “framework of a future deal” he said was reached regarding the island.

The decision, which Trump announced Wednesday on social media, marks a stark reversal for a president who has ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A House committee recommended holding Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress on Wednesday, a key step on a path that could lead to criminal charges against the high-profile Democrats.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted to advance separate reports on contempt, citing the duo’s failure to appear ...Read more

WASHINGTON — John L. “Jack” Smith is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, a high-profile appearance that will allow him and Republicans to present starkly different takeaways about the former special counsel’s criminal investigations of President Donald Trump.

For Smith, the hearing will offer a platform to ...Read more