Nine family members of the Kennedy political dynasty asked a judge Tuesday to block President Donald Trump’s plan to build a towering memorial arch, saying the 250-foot (76-meter) structure would cast a shadow over their relatives’ gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery. The shadow would “fundamentally alter the experience of visiting the gravesites,” the relatives argued. […]
Republican Maria Elvira Salazar won election Tuesday to the U.S. House of Representatives representing Florida’s 27th Congressional District, defeating Democrat Eliott Rodriguez. Salazar, a former journalist, secured a fourth term after distancing herself from President Donald Trump’s hardline approach on immigration, saying in a campaign video that the same Hispanics who helped elect him now […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge must narrow an order requiring LinkedIn to divulge journalists’ communications on the social media platform to the Trump administration as part of a leak investigation, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a case with profound free-speech implications. A three-judge panel from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said […]
The family farm where President Jimmy Carter tended peanuts, corn and sugarcane as a boy and later returned throughout his life will be preserved and opened to the public. Preservation group The Conservation Fund said Monday that it has acquired the farm as part of a 2,458-acre (995-hectare) purchase. The farm is just outside Plains, […]
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee slammed the Trump administration on Tuesday for botching the public release of millions of pages of records relating to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. In a report scrutinizing the government’s handling of criminal investigations of Epstein and his longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, the committee faulted President Donald Trump and the Justice […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders said Tuesday he would not be supporting Sen. Chuck Schumer as the Democratic majority leader in the new Congress, setting up a seismic confrontation after the party’s sweep to power in the midterm elections. Sanders was joined by Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan at a news conference at […]
Democrat Darren Soto won election Tuesday to the U.S. House of Representatives representing Florida’s 9th Congressional District, defeating Republican Dan Green. Soto won a sixth term despite being targeted under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’s redistricting plan, which redrew House boundaries in an attempt to pick up seats in Florida. Green joined the U.S. Navy after […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep.-elect LaKesha Womack, a community organizer who stunned her own Democratic Party by defeating a well-know North Carolina Republican on her shoestring $56,000 campaign budget, said she’s excited to arrive in Washington and show what’s possible. Rep.-elect Brian Poindexter said his win over incumbent GOP Rep. Max Miller ensures Ohio remains a […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Gadi Eisenkot, the politician tasked with forming a new Israeli government, pledged on Tuesday to reverse many of Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies as the new parliament was sworn in. The pledge sets the stage for a consequential month of legislative action and coalition negotiations. Eisenkot, a former military chief, has up […]
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is condemning the impeachment effort against him as “a political spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment.” Hegseth made the comments at a news conference at the Pentagon, just a day after Rep. Thomas Massie launched an effort to impeach him over his handling of the unpopular war […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans will meet Tuesday for a “robust conversation” on their future and to decide whether to keep South Dakota Sen. John Thune as their leader, just a week after steep losses in the midterm elections that cost them their majority. Thune is expected to be reelected, given that he remains popular […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans will move Tuesday to select their leader in the minority after a brutal drubbing at the polls, with the two candidates being House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio. The lawmakers are gathering in the morning for a vote expected in the […]
GENEVA (AP) — The United States is set Tuesday to become the first country to fully shun a regular review of its human rights record at the U.N.’s top rights body since it was created two decades ago. The Trump administration last year pulled the U.S. out of the Human Rights Council, accusing it of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to give his first news conference from the Pentagon in six months on Tuesday, just a day after a Republican lawmaker launched an effort to impeach him over his handling of the unpopular war against Iran and other actions. The briefing will be Hegseth’s first since […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina was in charge of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the organization dedicated to supporting his party’s House campaigns. But the seven-term congressman wasn’t able to save his own seat this year. Republicans floundered in the state after party organizations pulled support from Michael Whatley, their U.S. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The midterm elections already upended national politics. Due to the number of state governments that have flipped to Democratic control, they also could change the way the U.S. elects a president. The sudden blue tint to so many more statehouses opens the door to enough states joining 18 other Democratic-run states in […]
Republican Ken Calvert won election Monday to the U.S. House of Representatives representing California’s 40th Congressional District, defeating Republican incumbent Young Kim. The race presented a rare general election contest between two incumbents of the same party. Kim and Calvert ended up in the same district when California voters last year approved new congressional boundaries […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — After bringing UFC to the White House lawn this summer, President Donald Trump has now brought it to the briefing room, too. Trump made a surprise appearance before reporters Monday with UFC chief Dana White and briefly stood aside as his longtime friend took questions — milking a joke that began over […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators from both parties returned to Washington on Monday with questions about the future of their leadership after last week’s election decisively gave Democrats a significant new majority. Republicans who are losing around a quarter of their conference to election losses and retirements are debating whether to immediately reelect South Dakota Sen. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters he believe the war in Iran “militarily is effectively over.” The president made a surprise visit to White House briefing room after meeting with Qatar’s prime minister earlier in the day. “Iran militarily is effectively over,” Trump said. “We’re just keeping it the status quo.” […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A public spat between former Trump administration officials over alleged corruption in public health policymaking is the latest front in Republicans’ postelection recriminations, a battle that has exposed fault lines within the White House and could reshape political alliances involving the influential Make America Healthy Again movement. The blowup began when Calley […]
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Nov. 6 The Washington Post wonders if Democrats are serious about affordability Emboldened by the scale of Democratic victories in the midterms, a small group of liberals is trying to blow up a carefully negotiated bipartisan agreement that would make it easier to build […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for the Trump administration to resume border wall construction in the Big Bend region of Texas for now, a blow to bipartisan opponents who had argued the project is a waste of money that threatens the unique landscape. The border wall is a signature project […]
