A federal judge has denied the Justice Department’s attempt to apply President Donald Trump’s blanket pardon for members of the Jan. 6 mob at the Capitol to one defendant’s conviction for possessing ...

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear took a swipe Thursday at a fellow leading Democrat, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, for hosting one of the most prominent figures in the MAGA movement on his new podcast.

Ezra Levin, the co-executive director of the liberal grassroots organization Indivisible, quickly dubbed it the “Schumer surrender.” “I guess we’ll find out to what extent Schumer is leading the party ...

The order by U.S. District Judge James Bredar was even more broad than a ruling earlier in the day from a different federal judge.

SACRAMENTO, California — California lawmakers are calling for answers after the governor’s office floated a loan to bail out the state’s Medicaid program, bringing renewed scrutiny on the state’s ...

Democrats appear on the cusp of voting to avoid a shutdown because they fear the consequences of standing up to the Trump administration could be worse.

The announcement could come soon, three of the people said.

California state lawmakers want to bolster the state’s water quality standards in light of possible federal rollbacks — but they're shying away from calling it Trump-proofing.

Midterm elections tend to be unkind to the party in power. The sitting president’s party has lost House seats in every midterm but two dating back to 1950. The last time Donald Trump was president, ...

BEDFORD, Massachusetts — Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member who caused an international uproar when he leaked highly classified documents about the war in Ukraine, pleaded ...

Russia is trying to undermine peace talks and should be slammed with tough new sanctions, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday ahead of negotiations between the U.S. and Moscow.

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