ST. PAUL, Minn. — House Speaker Lisa Demuth was meandering through the Minnesota State Fair with a slice of bacon on a stick when two fairgoers stopped her to talk.

“I’m a Democrat, but thank God you’re running,” Les Delton, a retired pipefitter from Minneapolis, told Demuth. He said he was tired of fraud in state government and that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department is pushing back on requests for information about how it resolved President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, accusing challengers of the deal of improperly using the courts to pry loose details they aren’t entitled to receive.

At a hearing on Friday, a ...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump lost another bid to move a challenge to his New York criminal fraud conviction to a federal court as a judge said that payments to an adult film star don’t constitute an official act that would be covered by presidential immunity.

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein’s ruled against Trump on the issue ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Michigan U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell plans to introduce legislation next week that aims to undo President Donald Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, restoring the lake's indigenous name.

Dingell, a Democrat, told The Detroit News that she plans to introduce the "Hands Off Our Great Lakes Act" that would ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Recent polling and projections of Americans’ approval of President Donald Trump painted a grim picture — but three states were the rare bright spots on the horizon for the administration.

In 47 states, more residents disapproved of Trump’s performance than those who approved.

But in Idaho, Wyoming and West Virginia, ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Jim Sheehan, the owner of a coffee shop in Driggs, has found himself at the center of a firestorm over access to abortion in Idaho.

After Sheehan, who owns Wydaho Roasters, was filmed in mid-August telling members of an anti-abortion rights group not to hold a meeting in his cafe, he has found himself the subject of national ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s order halting new U.S. Postal Service restrictions on mail-in ballots, moving quickly to reinstate the challenged rules after they were paused in a high-stakes clash that could shape the November midterms and the fight to control Congress.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled ...Read more

Two of the highest-ranking law enforcement officials in California are publicly sparring over the integrity of state elections, trading barbs on social media that highlight the fierce partisan divide on the issue heading into the November midterms.

In a post to X on Wednesday, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, the top federal ...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump will snub the Sept. 11 ceremony at ground zero marking the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks reportedly because he wasn’t going to be permitted to deliver a speech at the event.

Instead of lower Manhattan, Trump is expected to attend a 9/11 ceremony at the Pentagon where he will make a speech, while ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he plans to authorize farmers and ranchers to process their own food in the administration’s latest bid to lower the price of beef ahead of the U.S. midterm elections in November.

Trump posted Friday on social media that he would direct legal documents to be drawn up in order to “break this powerful monopoly” ...Read more

On Aug. 27, 2026, President Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” claiming his administration had already “notified all of the various people you have to notify.”

The name change, which Ontario Premier Doug Ford had dismissed as rhetoric when it was first suggested, comes amid an ...Read more

Democrats are in a tizzy over a recent Supreme Court ruling that allows a presidential order on mail ballots to move forward — for now. But the decision was technical in nature and will almost certainly have no practical effect on the November election in Nevada or elsewhere.

In March, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that he ...Read more

WASHINGTON — For the last six months, President Donald Trump has attempted to control the narrative of the Iran war.

As days, weeks and months passed, he repeatedly said that an agreement to end the conflict was close at hand and that Iran was already defeated. Between fraught negotiations, Trump has gone from conciliatory to antagonistic, ...Read more

AUSTIN, Dallas – President Donald Trump Friday headed deep into the heart of Texas in an effort to bolster Ken Paxton’s sputtering Senate campaign that is crucial to Republican efforts to hold Congress.

Trump was set to visit the NASA headquarters and call astronauts at the International Space Station but his main mission was to deliver a ...Read more

In January 2026, during Operation Country Roads, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and state and local law enforcement detained roughly 600 immigrants across West Virginia.

Many of those arrested were held in the state’s already overpopulated jail system, which until this spring was part of a national network of immigrant ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A move by House Democratic leaders puts U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz in position to help influence U.S. policy on Israel and the Middle East — assuming he gets reelected and Democrats take control of the House of Representatives in the November election.

House Democratic leaders announced Tuesday they had selected ...Read more

On Monday, the United States opened another chapter in its decadeslong campaign of economic pressure against Iran. The Treasury Department launched Operation Economic Outcast, describing it as an unprecedented economic campaign aimed at further isolating the Islamic Republic and those who enable it.

The objective sounds straightforward: Deprive...Read more

WASHINGTON— A federal judge temporarily blocked the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing key parts of its new restrictions on mail-in ballots, delivering the latest setback to President Donald Trump as Republicans defend their slim majority in Congress in the November midterm elections.

The order on Thursday from U.S. District Judge Indira ...Read more

The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce is continuing its investigation into Chicago Public Schools by requesting more information on the district’s policies supporting transgender students and other diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

In a letter Thursday addressed to district CEO Macquline King, committee Chair Rep....Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The nonprofit organization behind a ballot initiative that will let Idaho voters decide this fall whether to restore access to abortion has sued Republican state officials over what it says is “confusing, biased” language set to appear on ballots.

Idahoans United for Women and Families, which formed in the wake of the U.S. ...Read more