This week on the hill: Congress returns from recess facing high-stakes fights

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Congress returns from its one-week recess to a packed agenda, diving back into many of the same high-stakes issues that dominated lawmakers’ attention last month. Among the most pressing on GOP leaders’ to-do list is passing the bill to fund immigration enforcement, which they aim to advance through the budget reconciliation process that bypasses the…

Republicans Regain Advantage in Redistricting Fight After Virginia Map Overturned

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An election worker tears off ‘I Voted’ stickers during the Virginia redistricting referendum at Fairfax Government Center in Fairfax, Va., on April 21, 2026. AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson Republicans have regained the advantage in the national mid-decade redistricting battle after the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a map that sought to grow the Democratic majority

Meet ‘Working-Class Mainer’ Graham Platner’s Oyster Farming Business Partner, an Elite Boarding School Graduate Who Drinks ‘Foraged Spring Water’ and Owns the Island Where the Farm Is Based

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Maine’s far-left Democratic Senate nominee, Graham Platner, has leaned on his career as a “working-class” oyster farmer to cast himself as a blue-collar everyman. His Ivy League business partner—who owns the secluded island where the farm is based—is, well, anything but. Robert Cushman III is an elite New England boarding school graduate who has described

‘This Doctor and His Staff Are Horrible!’ Democratic House Hopeful Under Fire for Terror Ties Denounced as ‘Creep’ Who Left Patients Scarred, Disfigured, According to Complaints

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The deepest cuts are his reviews. A New Jersey plastic surgeon now running for Congress—under fire for his long friendship with the notorious, terror-plotting “Blind Sheikh”—has left a string of patients with lifelong burns, scars, and other disfigurements, according to multiple allegations against his medical practice. Adam Hamawy, a far-left progressive, is currently the favorite