In a year filled with voter anger toward Washington, Reps. Tom Cole and Gerry Connolly seemed to be perfect targets for stiff primary challenges from their respective right and left ideological flanks. In late April,Cole (R-Okla.) became chair of the House Appropriations Committee, in charge of doling out more than $1.7 trillion to federal agencies. […]Read More

A defense attorney for defendants charged in the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol posted a video on social media this week showing what appeared to be a sleeping guard at the D.C. jail complex, prompting an internal investigation at the long-troubled city detention facility. The 80-second video was posted Tuesday on X by Joseph […]Read More

A super PAC supporting Sen. Ted Cruz’s reelection campaign has received nearly $800,000 in receipts from the company that distributes the Texas Republican’s podcast, an arrangement that is attracting scrutiny from campaign finance experts and Democrats. Federal law prohibits candidates from soliciting or directing money to super PACs, which can raise unlimited amounts of funds,including […]Read More

PHOENIX — Arizona delegates to the Republican National Convention gathered this month in a Phoenix suburb, showing up to get to know each other and learn about their duties. Part of the presentation included a secret plan to throw the party’s nomination of Donald Trump for president into chaos. The instructions did not come from […]Read More

Jimmy Carter is within sight of making history yet again. Sunday marks 100 days until Carter would become the first president to witness his own 100th birthday. Statistically, Americans have a less than 1 percent chance of living to 100. And Carter faces particularly significant challenges in reaching the milestone. For the past 16 months, […]Read More

The fundraising pitch from Donald Trump was neither accurate nor subtle. It read: “1 MONTH UNTIL ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE! THEY WANT TO SENTENCE ME TO DEATH.” The message blasted out to his supporters was a reference to the former president’s sentencing scheduled for July 11, when he faces fines or possible jail time after […]Read More

David DePape, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison on federal charges after he broke into Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and bludgeoned her husband, was convicted Friday of five additional charges in a California court. DePape, 44, was convicted last year on federal charges of attempting to kidnap the then-House speaker in 2022 […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump expanded his portrayal of migrants as violent with a suggestion that they could be pitted in fights for entertainment. During a speech to Christian conservatives on Saturday afternoon, and again at a rally in Philadelphia that evening, Trump claimed that he told his friend Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting […]Read More

Two years ago, California was so flush that Gov. Gavin Newsom was moved to make a bold declaration about the state’s estimated $100 billion budget surplus. “Simply without precedent,” the Democratic leader said, announcing the good news in May 2022. “No other state in American history has ever experienced a surplus as large as this.” […]Read More