NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton was set to give closed-door testimony Thursday to a congressional committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal, with Bill Clinton to follow on Friday.

The former secretary of state will give a deposition to the House of Representatives’ oversight committee near the couple’s home in ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — The August primaries are still a spring and summer away, but the Democratic race for Missouri's 2nd Congressional District is already heating up.

Joan VonDras, a former schoolteacher, is taking her main Democratic opponent to task for criticizing her about donating to her own cause.

In a statement sent to area media outlets, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans blew past a deadline to release legislation that would allow the year-round sale of E15 gasoline last week, but at least one member of a panel to resolve the issue says he hopes a final deal will soon emerge.

The E15 Rural Domestic Energy Council, established last month to satisfy lawmakers threatening to vote ...Read more

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called an early election for March 24, betting a popularity boost from a standoff with Donald Trump over Greenland will help secure her another term in office.

The move comes after the U.S. president revived claims over the Arctic territory in early January, causing a diplomatic rift with Europe. The...Read more

The U.S. and Iran started a third round of nuclear talks on Thursday with days to go until President Donald Trump’s deadline for a deal.

The two parties have been locked in a tense, months-long standoff over the Islamic Republic’s atomic activities and are negotiating through mediator Oman at its embassy in Geneva, the semi-official Iranian...Read more

President Donald Trump in his State of the Union address on Feb. 24, 2026, doubled down on his false claims that the U.S. elections system is compromised. He asserted that “the cheating is rampant in our elections. It’s rampant.”

These pronouncements follow the January 2026 FBI seizure of 2020 ballots from Fulton County, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — For the first time in more than 40 years, a former president will appeal directly before Congress to fend off criminal allegations.

Former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify before the House Oversight Committee this week in its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran are hurtling toward a conflict neither ostensibly wants but both seem unable to avoid. The long-standing rivals ought to pause and think carefully about where their true interests lie.

After weeks of buildup, two U.S. carrier groups and squadrons of advanced fighters and bombers are now poised to launch massive air and missile...Read more

WASHINGTON — After two years of working in the same congressional office, David Tennent didn’t ask for a raise.

Hindsight may be 20/20, but knowing what he knows now, things could have turned out differently for him.

“I felt comfortable about what I was making, but then I started to look at all of this data, and I’m like, geez, I could...Read more

Opposing abortion has been an Illinois Republican litmus test for decades, but even the party’s four candidates seeking the GOP nomination for governor are walking away from recently filed legislation that would criminalize the procedure as murder and make women who undergo an abortion and those who assist her eligible for the death penalty.

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WASHINGTON — One of Rep. David Rouzer’s first tasks at the Capitol was on the roof.

As a recent college graduate in 1995, he hoisted the flag that flies over the Senate — which was easier said than done when the wind was blowing.

“It looks smaller from the ground, but it’s a big sail, basically,” says the Republican, who now ...Read more

Representational government rests on a simple idea: that the laws the nation lives under generally reflect what the public wants. In the United States, few issues test that idea more than abortion.

In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that the Constitution does not guarantee a right ...Read more

A majority of Americans say they are “frustrated” or “angry” – or both – with Republicans and Democrats, according to the Pew Research Center. But that rarely translates into support for independent or third-party candidates.

One exception has been in the Northeast. Angus King of Maine and Bernie Sanders of Vermont are the...Read more

Two Democratic secretaries of state said they were told the Trump administration isn’t planning to send federal immigration enforcement agents to polling locations during November’s congressional elections.

State officials were told during a call Wednesday with federal authorities that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents won’t be ...Read more

President Trump on Wednesday dubbed Robert De Niro a “criminal” and suggested he leave the U.S. after the Oscar-winning actor headlined a “State of the Swamp” campaign that aired live on YouTube at the same time as Tuesday night’s State of the Union address.

De Niro joined actor and activist Mark Ruffalo, many Democratic politicians ...Read more

President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, saying the two Muslim members of Congress should be sent "back from where they came — as fast as possible."

Trump's comments, posted on his Truth Social platform, came after the two Democratic lawmakers could be seen shouting at him during Tuesday's State ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The backers of two resolutions in the House and Senate aimed at preventing President Donald Trump from attacking Iran are gearing up to force the issue soon.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who previously said he was waiting for diplomatic efforts to play out before forcing a vote, vowed Wednesday to bring his Iran war powers resolution ...Read more

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts and Nevis — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio began a day of talks with Caribbean leaders here telling them he wants to reinforce the long-term relationship between the United States and the region.

The statement, though brief, was encouraging, Caribbean leaders said as they prepared for longer closed-door discussions ...Read more