LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan House Oversight Committee authorized the issuance of a subpoena Tuesday for election training materials provided to Michigan clerks by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's office.

The subpoena, the first issued by the oversight panel since House Republicans came into power in January, comes after months of back ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYC Campaign Finance Board denied mayoral race front-runner Andrew Cuomo more than $2.5 million in public matching funds Tuesday, dealing an unexpected and significant blow to his campaign.

In a brief meeting at its Manhattan headquarters, the board’s members voted to deny the former governor the critical funds because his ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a tourism campaign on Monday urging Canadians to “come experience our California Love” after seeing a dip in in visits from the United State’s northern neighbors who say they’ve been alienated by President Donald Trump’s policies.

In a video posted on social media, Newsom focuses on the ...Read more

A video of a Las Vegas Tesla dealership that had been set on fire by anti-Elon Musk protesters was posted on March 18, 2025, by an account on X called EndWokeness.

The next day Musk replied to the post, “Some people just want to watch the world burn,” an iconic line from the 2008 Batman film “The Dark Knight.” Alfred, the ...Read more

Adam Gray is a “Hamas terrorist sympathizer,” according to the Republicans’ congressional campaign arm.

He’s not.

Gray, a Democratic congressman from Merced, got the endorsement last year of the Jewish Democratic Council of America. As a congressman, his first vote on a U.S.-Israel issue this year was pro-Israel. His office calls the ...Read more

President Donald Trump is maintaining a slightly positive approval rating, according to the latest polling, though his numbers have continued to slide as consumers come to grips with the reality of lingering inflation colliding with the president’s massive tariff rollout.

According to a poll of 2,286 registered voters released Monday by ...Read more

The Bernie supporters were outside the rally hours before it began.

They flocked to Nampa’s Ford Idaho Center on Monday afternoon wearing gear from U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ past presidential campaigns, T-shirts that read “resist,” “Hands off!” and “We the People.”

Attending Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” tour stop, they ...Read more

A federal judge stopped the Trump administration on Monday from rescinding deportation protections and work permits for more than a half-million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who were granted entrance into the United States under a humanitarian parole program during the Biden presidency.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled,...Read more

RIO DE JANEIRO — Donald Trump is pulling his nation’s closest neighbors into the center of his trade war with China as he seeks to elbow the Asian giant out of a region the U.S. has long considered its own backyard.

The president last week dispatched Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to Panama as part of his ongoing effort to reassert American...Read more

President Donald Trump’s tariff exclusions for smartphones and other tech products have added to a growing set of confusing signals for companies and trading partners digesting how to engage a White House still promising to negotiate dozens of new deals in America’s favor.

The dizzying weekend saw Trump exclude popular consumer electronics ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will ask lawmakers to cut more than $9 billion in funding for the Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio and foreign aid in the current fiscal year, an attempt to employ a little-used legislative tactic for reducing spending already approved by Congress.

The proposal — known as a rescission ...Read more

WASHINGTON — American technology companies hoping for relief from President Trump's trade war with China grappled with further uncertainty Monday, left to decipher whether a government policy exempting businesses that are core to the U.S. economy from crippling tariffs could be relied upon.

An industry that plans product launches and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — More than three months into the 119th Congress, House leaders have not yet appointed board members of the Office of Congressional Conduct, hamstringing the ethics office and its mission.

Failure to appoint the board of the OCC — an independent, nonpartisan office that reviews allegations of misconduct against House lawmakers ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The alleged arson attack on Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family at the governor's residence in Harrisburg this past weekend sparked strong bipartisan condemnation and calls for an end to political violence from Pennsylvania's representatives on Capitol Hill.

Sen. John Fetterman, seen as a Democratic rival as he and Shapiro have ...Read more

INDIO, Calif. — The most consequential cameo of Coachella so far was an unbilled guest slot from Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday.

Fresh off a packed rally at Gloria Molina Grand Park in downtown L.A. that drew tens of thousands, Sanders (flanked by congressman Maxwell Frost, a Gen Z inheritor of his vision), spoke just ahead of Clairo’s ...Read more

Donald Trump’s first term as president was characterized by an unprecedented volume of false and misleading statements — exceeding 30,000, according to multiple news organizations.

As he advances through the first 100 days of his second term, his administration appears to be intensifying this pattern, amplifying a misinformation apparatus ...Read more

NEW YORK — The CBS news-magazine "60 Minutes" is not going easy on President Donald Trump and the commander-in-chief is noticing.

Trump went after the program Sunday in a social media post after seeing two critical stories regarding his handling of the Russia-Ukraine war and his proposal to annex Greenland.

"Almost every week, 60 Minutes, ...Read more

Most Americans think President Donald Trump has the right instinct when it comes to tariffs — but his execution is another story, according to new polling.

In the latest CBS News/YouGov poll, a slim majority of respondents, 51%, said they like what Trump is trying to accomplish on tariffs and trade, while 49% said they dislike it. However, a ...Read more