On Friday night, Tim Walz stood on a stage in Barcelona next to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, Brazilian President Lula da Silva, and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. The event was billed as a "progressive summit," a gathering of left-wing heads of state united…
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says she has forwarded information about Sen. Ruben Gallego to Senate ethics officials and that Senate Majority Leader John Thune's office confirmed it was under review, claims the Arizona Democrat's office dismissed as "right-wing conspiracy theories." Luna, a Florida Republican, told…
A three-judge federal appeals panel handed the Trump administration a win Friday, allowing construction on the president's planned White House ballroom to continue into June, just one day after a lower-court judge tried to limit the $400 million project to underground work only. The U.S.…
A Minnesota prosecutor filed two felony assault counts against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent this week, alleging he pointed his service weapon at two civilians on a Minneapolis highway in February, a case the county attorney calls the first criminal charge against a federal…
Garret Anderson, one of the most decorated players in Los Angeles Angels history and a cornerstone of the franchise's only World Series championship, died Friday at his Newport Beach, California, home after what was described as a medical emergency. He was 53 years old. The…
President Trump is absent from the National Rifle Association's annual convention in Houston this weekend, the second year running he has passed on the gathering, and the no-show is drawing fresh attention to the organization's diminished financial and political standing inside the Republican coalition. The…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the FDA to expedite its review of psychedelic-based treatments for severe mental health conditions, with a sharp focus on veterans suffering from PTSD, traumatic brain injuries, and depression. The move pairs new federal research dollars with a…
The Supreme Court handed oil and gas companies a unanimous procedural win Friday, ruling that a major Louisiana coastal-damage case against Chevron belongs in federal court, not the state court system where a jury had already ordered the company to pay more than $740 million…
President Trump on Thursday nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz, a Brown University, trained physician, military veteran, and former deputy surgeon general, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, installing a credentialed public health official at the helm of an agency that has endured mass…
Utah's governor and top Republican lawmakers have launched an independent investigation into state Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen over allegations she exchanged "inappropriate" text messages with the attorney who argued a landmark redistricting case before her court, a case she helped decide unanimously in July…
Former Congressman David McKinley, a seventh-generation West Virginian who spent more than a decade fighting for coal miners and Mountain State workers on Capitol Hill, died peacefully at his home in Wheeling. He was 79. Tributes from across West Virginia's political leadership poured in Friday,…
Former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki broke with more than 50 Democratic lawmakers this week, flatly declaring that efforts to invoke the 25th Amendment against President Donald Trump are "not going to happen" and questioning why her own side keeps spending energy on…
Virginia voters head to the polls Tuesday to decide a redistricting referendum that could hand Democrats a commanding 10-1 advantage in the state's congressional delegation, but a pending Virginia Supreme Court challenge may ultimately void the entire effort over allegations that lawmakers broke state law…
Megyn Kelly took aim at Jimmy Kimmel this week after the late-night host sat down with Michelle Obama on her podcast and declared that ignoring politics on his ABC show would be "embarrassing" and "shameful." Kelly fired back on The Megyn Kelly Show, calling the…