WASHINGTON — Despite warnings from the architect of the Capitol about a dire need to renovate the Rayburn House Office Building, lawmakers say they still aren’t fully sold on the project, which could last until 2045 and cost $9 billion.

Even as AOC Thomas Austin argues that delays would only come with more dangers and heftier costs, it’s...Read more

MIAMI — The 10-week sprint to become the Democratic nominee to succeed South Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson is officially underway after two leading candidates — both pastors’ sons — chose the preacher’s pulpit to pitch themselves as deeply rooted in the community and the best standard-bearer of her legacy.

County commissioner...Read more

Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Nikki Fried is the latest in a chorus of voices criticizing U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the unfolding backlash to her decision to seek reelection in a Black plurality district after Republicans redrew Florida’s congressional map.

“I am disappointed by the congresswoman’s refusal to engage in ...Read more

The Wall Street Journal asked a judge to dismiss President Donald Trump’s revised $10 billion defamation lawsuit over an article on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, arguing that the new complaint isn’t an improvement on the original version that was tossed out.

Trump’s revised lawsuit still fails to explain how the article — about a “...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump got his mojo back with Republican primary voters Tuesday following a setback in Iowa last week when his preferred candidate lost the GOP contest for governor.

Trump-backed House candidates notched wins in South Carolina and Nevada. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham overcame a primary challenge from a ...Read more

Congressional lawmakers grilled Chicago Public Schools CEO Macquline King in an hourslong hearing Wednesday, pressing her and two other superintendents on policies supporting transgender students and other diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Members of the Republican-led U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee echoed the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican James Gallagher took the oath of office Wednesday, filling the seat of the late Rep. Doug LaMalfa in California’s 1st District and giving House leaders some breathing room in what has been a tumultuous year of deaths and resignations in Congress.

A former state Assembly GOP leader, Gallagher ran with endorsements ...Read more

Efforts by Black congressional candidates and political leaders to coalesce around one challenger to U.S. Debbie Wasserman Schultz apparently have failed.

Elijah Manley, one of four Black candidates in the Broward County 20th Congressional District, officially qualified as a candidate on Wednesday, dealing a blow to the unity effort.

A second ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — An upstart challenger to longtime U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro says that he will not have enough signatures to force a Democratic primary but is strongly considering an independent challenge in November.

Andrew Rice, 38, said he is not giving up in his battle with DeLauro after falling short at the party convention and in the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in the House and Senate are pushing bipartisan measures to increase U.S. support for Sudan as the country enters into the fourth year of a brutal civil war and humanitarian crisis.

In the Senate, Foreign Relations Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, with Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., on Tuesday introduced a bill to address the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Progressive Democrat Randy Villegas has secured his spot in the general election and will battle Republican Rep. David Valadao for one of the nation’s most critical House races.

Villegas clinched the second-place finish for California’s 22nd District Tuesday afternoon following the latest primary election update, ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The fight to see who will face off to replace Rep. Nancy Mace continues. Both the Republican and Democratic primaries for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District are headed for runoffs, set for June 23.

No candidate had adequate votes to win outright, according to reporting on scvotes.org, and all results are unofficial...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats appeared ready to reject President Donald Trump’s request for a short-term extension of a key surveillance authority Wednesday, arguing the president’s promise to eventually find a permanent intelligence head wasn’t good enough.

The action deepened a legislative standoff over Section 702 of the Foreign ...Read more

MIAMI — Attorney Kendrick Meek Jr. filed paperwork Wednesday to run for Florida’s 24th District, after Rep. Frederica Wilson announced two weeks ago that she wouldn’t seek reelection.

Meek enters with a special cachet: His grandmother, Carrie Meek, was among Florida’s first three Black representatives in Congress since Reconstruction ...Read more

A race for a key swing district in Northeastern Pennsylvania has caught the eye of a major Democratic super PAC that plans to spend around $50 million on advertising targeting Republican-held seats, according to the New York Times.

“We’re going to Republican territory and planting a flag,” Bradley Beychok, the president of American Bridge...Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday shrugged off punishing price hikes faced by ordinary Americans, saying “I love the inflation” as the closely watched economic gauge soared over 4% amid the Iran war.

Asked about a new report showing consumer prices rose by 4.2% compared to 12 months ago, Trump told reporters that the report was music to ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A trial whose outcome could impact Idaho’s abortion laws is underway in federal court in Boise, and the first two days have included expert witness testimony from the high-risk pregnancy specialist suing government officials and from several other specialists who detailed myriad potential pregnancy complications they said ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As advanced safety technologies reach new stages of development across the transportation sector, Congress has been grappling with how to legislate such innovations, trying to balance industry needs against calls to prevent tragic accidents.

A subcommittee hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee took ...Read more

WASHINGTON — For both parties, the bare-knuckle battle for control of the House winds through California.

Recent primaries in the Golden State provided an early look at how major themes shaping the midterm elections are playing out: ideological debates roiling the Democratic Party, a redrawn map that threw together two GOP incumbents and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury refunded nearly $22 billion in tariff revenue collected from importers in May, the first swath of such repayments since the Supreme Court struck down a major component of President Donald Trump’s trade policy.

The amount was roughly equal to tariffs taken in during the month, according to a Treasury ...Read more