WASHINGTON — Angered by a bipartisan Senate plan to end a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, House Republicans countered with an eight-week funding extension that virtually ensures a continuation of the standoff.

The House on Friday passed a stopgap funding bill for the department that Senate Democrats warned has no ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey and Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll will be attending two of several No Kings rallies scheduled across Massachusetts on Saturday as the governor continues to increase her criticism of and actions against President Donald Trump and his policies ever since launching her reelection campaign in January.

“On Saturday, March 28th...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a memo directing Transportation Security Administration personnel to be paid, a bid to alleviate disruptions at U.S. airports as Congress battles over how to end the ongoing partial government shutdown.

The memo, which could lead to paychecks for TSA workers as soon as Monday, eased the sharpest ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Group of Seven counterparts traded barbs over the wars in Iran and Ukraine, casting doubt on Europe bowing to Donald Trump’s demand for military help in the Persian Gulf.

“The United States is constantly being asked to help in a war,” Rubio said, referring to Ukraine, before taking off for the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a memo directing Transportation Security Administration personnel to be paid, a bid to alleviate disruptions at U.S. airports amid the ongoing shutdown of its parent agency.

Trump’s Friday memo stated that 50,000 transportation officers who work security at airports are not being paid because of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After years of demonstrators repeatedly shutting down freeway traffic around downtown Los Angeles, Caltrans has installed large metal swing gates onto freeway ramps ahead of this weekends "No Kings" protests.

Caltrans and the California Highway Patrol finished installing swing gates early Friday morning on Los Angeles Street ...Read more

The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran continued to upend markets, cause death and destruction across the Middle East and elude any diplomatic resolution heading into its fifth week on Friday — even as President Donald Trump claimed victory and a coming end to the conflict.

"We're doing really well in Iran, just so you understand," the president ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a memo directing Transportation Security Administration personnel to be paid, a bid to alleviate disruptions at U.S. airports amid the ongoing shutdown of its parent agency.

Trump’s Friday memo stated that 50,000 transportation officers who work security at airports are not being paid due to the ...Read more

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday angrily rejected the plan passed by the Republican Senate to end the partial government shutdown that has brought chaos to airports.

In a remarkable show of open Republican division, Johnson trashed Republican senators for voting unanimously after midnight to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security....Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Sam Graves, who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is joining a growing list of lawmakers deciding not to seek reelection this year.

“After considerable reflection, 2026 will be my final year in Congress,” Graves, 62, said in a Friday statement. “This wasn’t an easy decision, but it’s the...Read more

On Feb. 24, The Conversation hosted a webinar titled, “What Americans can learn from other nonviolent civil activism movements.”

Executive editor and general manager Beth Daley interviewed John Shattuck, professor of practice at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and Oliver Kaplan, associate professor at...Read more

MIAMI — For several years, former Miami-Dade Congressman David Rivera has maintained that he helped funnel money from his $50 million contract representing the U.S. subsidiary of Venezuela’s national oil company to politicians opposing socialist President Nicolás Maduro.

Some of that money, Rivera has said, went directly to the jailed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans — caught by surprise by the Senate’s early-morning deal on Department of Homeland Security spending — signaled they wouldn’t be jammed by the other chamber on their way out the door to a two-week recess, instead proposing a roughly eight-week stopgap measure to buy more time for negotiations.

The Senate�...Read more

During his first Cabinet meeting since launching the U.S. war on Iran, President Donald Trump spent 10 minutes talking about the price of ceremonial White House pens — which he claimed to have brought down, from $1,000 to $5, by switching to his favored Sharpie brand.

Trump was trying to make the point during the Thursday meeting that he’s ...Read more

The House Ethics Committee said 25 counts of misconduct by Florida Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick have been “proven by clear and convincing evidence,” after a closed-door vote during the wee hours Friday morning and rare, televised hearing Thursday evening.

Ethics Committee staff had accused the Democrat of 27 counts of misconduct...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has thrown out the blueprint for the wartime American presidency — and it has hindered his management of the Iran conflict, former officials and analysts said.

Those experts said this week that where previous U.S. commanders in chief have sought to portray a steel will and generals-based message, Trump ...Read more

It’s too early to say whether two major special-election upsets — the narrow defeat of a highly-favored Republican in a Tampa Bay based Senate seat, and a Democrat’s victory in a South Palm Beach County House district — are anything more than a continuation of the fact that Democrats tend to do better in special elections.

But these two...Read more

WASHINGTON — Members of a House Ethics subcommittee ruled against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., after a marathon hearing Thursday that stretched into the night, finding that she violated ethics rules.

It was a rare moment for the typically secretive ethics panel, as a public “trial” unfolded for the first time since 2010.

In a...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, the powerful Missouri Republican known for his ability to work across party lines, will retire and not seek a 14th term in Congress.

Graves, 62, whose sweeping 6th District in northern Missouri touches Kansas City’s Northland, confirmed his planned exit on social media Friday morning. His retirement,...Read more

Operation Epic Fury – the latest round of military strikes against Iran – began when Iran was engaged in negotiations with the United States to renew restrictions on its nuclear program.

This is not the first time the United States has bombed Iran during nuclear negotiations.

In June 2025, while its representatives were in...Read more