Behind the credit card, ubiquitous in American economic life now for decades, stand a very few gigantic financial institutions that exert nearly unlimited power over how much consumers and businesses pay for the use of a small piece of plastic. American consumers and small businesses alike are spitting fire these days about the cost of credit ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats face their first congressional primary of the year next week, with 11 candidates seeking to succeed New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill in a special election that could serve as an early indicator of how Democratic voters feel just weeks before the midterm election season kicks off in March.

Former Rep. Tom Malinowski, Essex...Read more

WASHINGTON — In their quest to flip the House this year, Democrats have their eyes on a handful of Ohio seats the party hasn’t held in decades.

In a Dayton-area district, nurse practitioner and Air Force veteran Kristina Knickerbocker is highlighting her health care experience and military background as keys to bridging the partisan divide....Read more

As the operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement have intensified over the past year, politicians and journalists alike have begun referring to ICE as a “paramilitary force.”

Rep. John Mannion, a New York Democrat, called ICE “a personal paramilitary unit of the president.” Journalist Radley Balko, who wrote a book ...Read more

MONTEREY, Calif. — Bipartisan and bicameral legislation that would strengthen protections for more than 700,000 servicemembers and their families across the country living in privatized military housing, has been introduced by U.S. Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-Carmel Valley, and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-CT, with others joining.

The ...Read more

A West Virginia librarian was arrested for allegedly using social media to recruit someone to assassinate President Donald Trump.

Ripley resident Morgan Leigh Morrow, 39, was taken into custody after she engaged in the “social media recruitment of individuals to pursue and assassinate President Trump,” the Jackson County Sheriff’s ...Read more

President Donald Trump warned Iran to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. or face military strikes far worse than the attack he ordered last June, increasing pressure on the regime and propelling oil prices higher.

In a social media post on Wednesday, Trump said the fleet of U.S. ships he’d ordered to the region, led by the USS Abraham Lincoln ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Privacy-minded Senate Judiciary members rehashed their support for adding a warrant requirement to a powerful surveillance authority at a hearing Wednesday, as lawmakers face an April deadline to reauthorize the program.

Lawmakers during the last reauthorization cycle were bitterly split over the extent of privacy protections for...Read more

CHICAGO — Southwest Side Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez launched an independent run for Congress Wednesday against the chief of staff for outgoing U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García in the November general election.

Sigcho-Lopez billed his campaign for Garcia’s 4th Congressional District seat as an effort to unhorse the old guard.

García, a...Read more

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio would not commit Wednesday to seeking congressional authorization if the Trump administration takes further military action in Venezuela.

In his opening statement at a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio left open the possibility that the administration could use military ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House promptly rejected a Senate Democratic proposal for restraints on federal immigration agents Wednesday, saying those talks should occur on a separate track from negotiations on a $1.3 trillion fiscal 2026 spending package hung up in the Senate.

The administration’s stance throws a wrench into bipartisan talks to ...Read more

Nicki Minaj on Wednesday doubled down on her support for President Donald Trump at a summit to promote the new Trump Accounts program, where she held hands with the president and described herself as his “No. 1 fan.”

The rapper attended the event in Washington, D.C. to back one of the administration’s economic initiatives, praising Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As politicians accuse each other of fanning the flames in Minnesota with dangerous rhetoric, the debate is hitting close to home for members of Congress.

In the same week that Capitol Police announced another rise in threat cases, a man sprayed an unknown substance at Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., as she was holding a town hall ...Read more

President Donald Trump admitted he feels “terrible” about the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, but said he’s was more upset about Good because her parents are “tremendous Trump people.”

Trump made the comment Tuesday on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show” while addressing the ongoing unrest in Minneapolis, where both ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump endorsed Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity for governor Tuesday evening, awarding her the coveted nod from the leader of the Republican Party as she tries to unseat the popular Democratic incumbent Gov. Josh Shapiro in November.

The Trump endorsement comes as Shapiro is on a national media blitz to ...Read more

Sen. John Fetterman hates government shutdowns.

The Pennsylvania Democrat has never backed a lapse in government funding since he took office in 2023.

And this aversion does not appear to be changing anytime soon as the country is staring down the possibility of a second shutdown in roughly four months starting at the end of this week. ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Democrats won a pair of special elections for Minnesota House seats in St. Paul and the east metro on Jan. 27, restoring the chamber to an even partisan split before the Legislature returns for its 2026 session.

Labor lawyer Meg Luger-Nikolai easily defeated Republican and IT professional Dan Walsh for the safely blue seat left ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that Venezuela has, for the first time in nearly a decade, a genuine opportunity for political change, marking a sharp shift from what he described as a long-frozen crisis under former strongman Nicolás Maduro.

“For the first time in literally a decade there is the opportunity that something ...Read more

President Donald Trump warned Iran to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. or face military strikes far worse than the attack he ordered last June, increasing pressure on the regime and propelling oil prices higher.

In a social-media post on Wednesday, Trump said the fleet of U.S. ships he’d ordered to the region, led by the USS Abraham Lincoln ...Read more

The federal government Wednesday inched closer to a shutdown as the Senate remained deadlocked over a spending bill that would fund Immigration Customs and Enforcement amid the agency’s deadly clashes with protesters in Minneapolis.

Large swaths of the federal government will shut down Saturday morning unless President Donald Trump and ...Read more