WASHINGTON (AP) — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick appeared Wednesday before a House committee investigating sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as lawmakers seek answers for Lutnick’s contact with him in the years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl. Lutnick, a member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, is the latest powerful political figure…
Tennessee lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled a proposal for a new congressional map that would heavily favor Republicans this November by splitting up the state’s sole Democratic district. The map would put a target on Rep. Steve Cohen, who represents the state’s only majority-Black district and is the lone Democrat among Tennessee’s nine House members. Memphis,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is appearing Wednesday before a House committee investigating sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as lawmakers seek answers for Lutnick’s contact with him in the years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl. Lutnick, a member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, is the latest powerful political…
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) notched a series of wins last week by muscling several key bills through the House, but the road ahead is littered with challenges as he must unify a fractured GOP when those priorities come back up in the weeks ahead. Johnson defied the skeptics by rallying hard-line conservatives and GOP moderates…
Indiana voters cast their ballots in a slate of state Senate primaries that surged into the national spotlight amid President Trump’s push for red states to redistrict ahead of the midterms. Five of seven incumbents targeted with Trump-backed challengers lost their primaries on Tuesday, marking a major win for the president who threatened to oust the state lawmakers who bucked his wish for GOP-friendly changes to Indiana’s congressional…
Democrat Rep. Frank Mrvan (Ind.) is set to face off this fall against Republican Porter County Commissioner Barb Regnitz in what’s expected to be one of the few competitive House races in Indiana this cycle, according to Decision Desk HQ. Mrvan first won his northwestern Indiana seat in the 2020 election and has held on…
Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) and Republican Eric Conroy are projected to win their respective primaries on Tuesday, setting up a competitive general election matchup in November, according to Decision Desk HQ. Landsman, who has represented Ohio’s 1st Congressional District since 2023, fended off a primary challenge from businessman Damon Lynch IV. Conroy, an Air Force…