Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with the legality of federal limits on the amount of money a political committee can spend in coordination with a federal candidate, hearing a case that could join a line of recent fights that have led the high court to dismantle campaign finance restrictions. The dispute, known
Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday granted the Justice Department’s request to unseal a “voluminous” set of grand jury transcripts and evidence from a sex trafficking case in New York against Ghislaine Maxwell, a co-conspirator and friend of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer granted the request after
In the year since President Trump and the GOP’s decisive 2024 victories, Democrats have been grappling with a central question: how to chart a path out of what many in the party have described as the political “wilderness.” A series of wins in 2025 — from New York City to California, New Jersey and Virginia
Washington — A bipartisan group of former federal ethics officials is asking for an internal Justice Department investigation into the legal opinion justifying U.S. military strikes on suspected drug-running boats in the waters off South America. The ex-officials sent a request Tuesday to the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility calling for an “immediate investigation
Washington — Rep. Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican, criticized House GOP leaders in an op-ed on Monday for what she called their “restrictive and ineffective” control of the chamber that has yielded few results. “Here’s a hard truth Republicans don’t want to hear: Nancy Pelosi was a more effective House speaker than any Republican
Update: Democrat Eileen Higgins won the mayoral runoff election with about 59% of the vote. It’s been nearly 30 years since Miami last elected a Democrat to serve as mayor, but the party feels this might be its best shot to reclaim victory in decades, as its candidate said a win would be a referendum
President Trump announced Monday that he will allow California-based Nvidia to sell its advanced H200 computer chips to “approved customers” in China, a boost to the semiconductor giant whose chips are widely used for artificial intelligence. The United States government will take a 25% cut of chip sales to China, the president said in a Truth