It says a lot about the state of affairs when a Puerto Rican singer and rapper does more to unify the country in about 13 minutes than the president of the United States has done in the past 13 months.

Bad Bunny’s halftime performance at Super Bowl XL was all about love, while Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office is focused on hate.

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WASHINGTON — The campaign arm of House Democrats on Tuesday added five seats to its target list, reflecting the party’s renewed confidence of flipping Republican districts and winning the House majority this year.

The new offensive opportunities bring the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s total “Districts in Play” to 44.

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WASHINGTON — With two Democratic incumbents facing competitive primaries, early campaign disclosures depict two different situations for U.S. Reps. April McClain Delaney and Kweisi Mfume.

While Mfume holds a solid fundraising edge over his most prominent challenger, Baltimore City Councilman Mark Conway, McClain Delaney’s fundraising has ...Read more

Democratic congressional leaders are rejecting a White House counteroffer to their demands for reforms to President Donald Trump’s immigration operation as “incomplete and insufficient” as a deadline for a deal on Department of Homeland Security funding looms on Friday.

Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries trashed the response to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The leaders of the agencies enforcing President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown faced tough questioning on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, with one Democratic lawmaker asking the head of ICE if he would apologize to the families of two U.S. citizens killed by federal agents and called domestic terrorists by Homeland Security ...Read more

NEW YORK — Jack Schlossberg on Tuesday declared if he wins the crowded race to succeed Rep. Jerry Nadler in Congress, he’ll be all in on investigating and even impeaching President Donald Trump.

The Kennedy scion told MSNOW’s "Morning Joe" that Democrats must retake the House of Representatives in the fall midterm elections so they can ...Read more

When it comes to national politics, Americans are fiercely divided across a range of issues, including gun control, election security and vaccines. It’s not new for Republicans and Democrats to be at odds over issues, but things have reached a point where even the idea of compromising appears to be anathema, making it more difficult to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Days before a deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security, Senate Democrats and the White House are swapping proposals in hopes of averting a partial government shutdown.

But time is short: Both sides have just four days to reach some kind of an agreement, or risk the Department of Homeland Security — the only ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sen. Bernie Sanders, a political hero among liberals and populists, next week will formally kick off the campaign to place a new tax on billionaires on California's November ballot.

The controversial proposal, which would impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of the state's wealthiest residents, is critical to backfilling ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Days before a deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security, Senate Democrats and the White House are swapping proposals in hopes of averting a partial government shutdown.

But time is short: Both sides have just four days to reach some kind of an agreement, or risk the Department of Homeland Security — the only ...Read more

Democratic congressional leaders are rejecting a White House counteroffer to their demands for reforms to President Donald Trump’s immigration operation as “incomplete and insufficient” as a deadline for a deal on Department of Homeland Security funding looms on Friday.

Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries trashed the response to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House Rules Committee teed up legislation for a floor vote Tuesday that would again prevent lawmakers from terminating President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs, this time until July 31.

The panel voted 8-3 Monday to report the resolution, but the floor vote, expected at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, may encounter resistance from ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sen. Bernie Sanders, a political hero among liberals and populists, next week will formally kick off the campaign to place a new tax on billionaires on California's November ballot.

The controversial proposal, which would impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of the state's wealthiest residents, is critical to backfilling ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Randy Fine remembers pulling an all-nighter before his first day in the House.

“I was a congressman-elect for 22 hours,” he said.

After winning a special election in Florida’s 6th District last April, Fine left his victory party at 10 p.m., drove two hours to the airport, and arrived in Washington the next morning.

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WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Monday advanced a procedural motion to block a vote on President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda, potentially delaying a politically uncomfortable vote on his most prominent economic policy until at least July.

The motion will be voted on by the chamber this week. Republicans have a razor-thin majority, so ...Read more

NEW YORK — Rep. Jerrold Nadler endorsed Monday his longtime aide and protege Assemblyman Micah Lasher in the Democratic primary race to succeed him representing the congressional district spanning the Upper East and Upper West sides of Manhattan.

The long-serving liberal lawmaker called Lasher the best choice to carry on his progressive ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration mounted a multipronged legal effort Monday to turn back an order to restore federal funding for the construction of the $16 billion Hudson River tunnel, getting the deadline to pay up pushed back by several days.

Attorneys for the federal Department of Transportation asked a judge to pause a temporary ...Read more

In the first weeks after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a strange pattern emerged in Western media coverage. Headlines oscillated between confidence and confusion. Kyiv would fall within days, one story would claim, then another would argue that Ukraine was winning. Russian forces were described as incompetent, then as a terrifying ...Read more