Several states undertook mid-decade redistricting efforts to try to alter the makeup of their congressional delegations this year, after President Trump began last summer to press Republican-led states to increase the number of GOP-friendly districts to help his party hold the House in next year’s midterm elections. Indiana became the first of these to reject
Washington — Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell and GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales officially submitted their resignation letters to the House clerk on Tuesday, avoiding expected votes to expel them from Congress over allegations of sexual misconduct. Swalwell has been accused of sexual assault in recent days, allegations that prompted him to end his campaign for governor
Washington — Another woman came forward with allegations against Rep. Eric Swalwell on Tuesday, claiming the California Democrat drugged and raped her after he offered to help her career in 2018. Swalwell announced Sunday that he would be ending his campaign for governor of California and said Monday he planned to resign from Congress. Swalwell has called the
Washington — Over a third of the Senate’s seats are up for election in 2026, and until recently, Republicans appeared exceedingly confident about their prospects of remaining in control after the midterm elections this fall. While Republicans are defending more seats, many of them are in states that President Trump won by comfortable margins in
Washington — Over a third of the Senate’s seats are up for election in 2026, and until recently, Republicans appeared exceedingly confident about their prospects of remaining in control after the midterm elections this fall. While Republicans are defending more seats, many of them are in states that President Trump won by comfortable margins in
Washington — A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered an end to criminal contempt proceedings launched by a lower court judge who said the government defied his order to turn around deportation flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador last year. A divided panel of three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
House Republicans are threatening to hold the CEO of Democratic fundraising company ActBlue in contempt of Congress as part of an investigation into its allegedly “unserious approach to fraud prevention,” CBS News has learned. “There is considerable reason to believe that ActBlue may have deliberately withheld” some documents “to impede our investigation,” the heads of