HERSHEY, Pa. — A week after a controversial ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the Voting Rights Act, and at a time of growing threats against judges, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. condemned criticism of the judiciary and said the public was mistaken to view judges as “purely political actors.”

Speaking Wednesday in Hershey at a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Support is growing for a rules change in the House that would bar members of Congress and their staff from trading on prediction markets.

Senators adopted their own resolution at the end of last month by unanimous consent, revising the standing rules of the Senate to ban buying and selling contracts tied to the outcomes of ...Read more

California Democrats in Congress are raising concerns about Paramount Skydance's proposed takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery — a $111 billion deal that would dramatically reshape Hollywood by consolidating two historic film studios.

Rep. Laura Friedman, D-Glendale, and 33 other members of Congress on Thursday urged California Attorney General...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Mifepristone, a drug used for miscarriage management and to end pregnancy, has been thrust again into the national spotlight — this time with response from Gov. Josh Shapiro.

The Pennsylvania governor signed onto a multistate amicus brief this week, urging the Supreme Court to uphold mifepristone access via mail. The court is ...Read more

Hate communities often flourish online for years, raising the question of how they persist. My research team has found that powerful stories keep members of a hate group galvanized, either by repeating the story over and over or by constantly adding fresh accusations and interpretations to it.

I’m a computational social scientist ...Read more

CHICAGO — Cook County Commissioner Tara Stamps declared after a recent meeting that she’d had enough.

Jessica Jackson, a member of the group Chicago Flips Red, had taken to the podium that March morning during public comment in front of the county’s Finance Committee. Jackson didn’t address any agenda items, instead hitting what for her...Read more

President Donald Trump charged into this destructive crusade without a word to Congress, without a clear rationale for why he was doing it and, now, with a spiraling price tag for the American taxpayers.

No, we’re not referring to Trump’s ill-conceived war in Iran — though the description works pretty well there, too. We’re referring to...Read more

WASHINGTON — North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards’ electability is being viewed differently by at least one group after allegations surfaced that he sexually harassed young female staffers in his office.

Edwards adamantly denies the allegations, but that wasn’t enough to keep the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics from moving the...Read more

An aide to longtime Chicago Democratic U.S. Rep. Danny Davis was indicted Wednesday on federal COVID-19 fraud charges alleging he lied about being unemployed to illegally collect nearly $32,000 in pandemic-related subsidies.

Gerard Moorer, 42, of Chicago, who served as Davis’ deputy district director and ran unsuccessfully for the statehouse ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Jim Costa, a Democrat from Fresno, was under investigation by a congressional ethics committee for allegations that he made inappropriate advances to two congressional interns, a new report found.

According to a report published Monday by NOTUS (News of the United States), a Washington D.C.-based digital outlet, Costa was under ...Read more

Alarmed by heightened immigration enforcement across San Diego County last summer, members of the local Democratic congressional delegation requested information from the Trump administration on the scope of the operation and tactics being used. Nine months later, they got some answers.

The response, given in a letter sent by U.S. Immigration ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has agreed to return the cellphone of Rep. Andy Ogles, according to a law firm representing him, after a lengthy dispute in which the Tennessee Republican said he believed the FBI was investigating past campaign finance filings.

The law firm Litson in a press release Tuesday, said the federal investigation ...Read more

President Trump recently bashed State Farm on social media, saying the insurer's treatment of residents whose homes burned in the January 2025 wildfires had been "absolutely horrible."

A month later, the Department of Justice has filed a brief supporting 60 fire victims who have sued State Farm and other insurers, claiming the carriers colluded...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court finished the last of its oral arguments for the term last week, and the justices now turn to the dozens of cases they are expected to decide by the conclusion of the term at the end of June.

The court has already issued major decisions invalidating Louisiana’s congressional map and wiping out President Donald ...Read more

The House Judiciary Committee has accused Philadelphia’s top law enforcement officials of shielding criminal immigrants through sanctuary policies and demanded that they quickly turn over a trove of related records and correspondence.

The GOP-led committee’s action represents an escalation by Trump-allied Republicans in their criticism of ...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer led a chorus of Democratic outrage on Wednesday over a Republican proposal to spend $1 billion on the glitzy White House ballroom that President Trump repeatedly promised would be built without using any public money.

The Senate minority leader and fellow lawmakers trashed the plan to rubber-stamp the 10-figure sum that would...Read more

President Donald Trump remembered Ted Turner as “one of the greats of all time” in a social media post selectively remembering the broadcasting giant who died Wednesday after battling Lewy body dementia.

“He founded CNN, sold it, and was personally devastated by the Deal because the new ownership took CNN, his ‘baby,’ and destroyed it...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Democrat Xavier Becerra’s rapid rise in California’s race for governor made him a ripe and constant target during a combative nationally televised debate Tuesday evening, his first real test in a high-stakes election that remains highly volatile.

Becerra was ripped apart throughout the two-hour CNN debate, primarily by his ...Read more