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Aug 29, 2025
Democrats still face an uphill fight to win in Iowa and retake the majority in the closely divided Senate.
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Aug 28, 2025
The three-time All-Star, who hit more than 400 home runs during his career, says he hopes to fill the seat held by Representative Chip Roy, a Republican.
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Aug 26, 2025
Ms. Menendez was convicted of taking bribes of gold, cash and a Mercedes in exchange for political favors dispensed by her husband, a former New Jersey senator.
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Aug 26, 2025
He will continue to oversee an office that often handles cases involving violent drug cartels and transnational repression. In making the choice, the judges avoided a political fight.
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Aug 26, 2025
When Republicans repealed a Biden-era "access and equity" grant program for transportation, they canceled funding for projects in some of their own districts.
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Aug 26, 2025
Threatened by the president with political retribution, Republicans agreed to defund public broadcasting, imperiling a lifeline of communication in rural Alaska.
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Aug 25, 2025
President Trump told Lisa Cook that he had found sufficient cause "to remove you from your position." Her dismissal could touch off a landmark legal battle over the Fed's independence.
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Aug 25, 2025
"I have determined that there is sufficient cause to remove you from your position," Mr. Trump said in a letter. Her dismissal threatened to touch off a landmark legal battle over the Fed's independence.
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Aug 25, 2025
Representative James E. Comer of Kentucky demanded financial records, video recordings and information on meetings with famous people.
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Aug 25, 2025
A G.O.P. request for information and interviews comes amid Trump administration claims that crime in the capital is worse than it appears.
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Aug 25, 2025
Few are happy with how Congress is performing these days, including its members, with increasingly unpleasant jobs. It's time to recruit better talent.
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Aug 22, 2025
Nadine and Robert Menendez, a former senator, were convicted of taking bribes. Seeking leniency, Ms. Menendez's relatives and friends agree she is "not a criminal mastermind."
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Aug 22, 2025
As President Trump asks Republican-led states to redraw congressional maps, some Indiana conservatives are pushing back. "They should leave it alone," one legislator said.
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Aug 22, 2025
The G.O.P. chairman of a key House panel was forced to issue the subpoena after a few Republicans banded together with Democrats to push it through.
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Aug 22, 2025
As a handful of states have made moves and begun discussing redrawing their maps, here's what's at stake.
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Aug 22, 2025
With the United States hosting two sets of Olympic Games and the World Cup, lawmakers are pressing for the State Department to step up its sports diplomacy.
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Aug 22, 2025
Gerrymandering is a form of cheating. And it is preventable.
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Aug 22, 2025
Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced an aggressive plan to retaliate against gerrymandering by Texas Republicans. Will it work?
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Aug 21, 2025
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic state lawmakers moved quickly to create new districts that could help their party flip five congressional seats. Their plan still requires voter approval.
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Aug 21, 2025
State lawmakers moved quickly to create new districts that could help Democrats flip five congressional seats. Their plan still requires voter approval.
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Aug 21, 2025
The State Senate will vote Thursday on a congressional map intended to help the G.O.P. win five more U.S. House seats. California Democrats will counter on the same day.
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Aug 21, 2025
Can you recognize a gerrymander?
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Aug 21, 2025
Lawmakers in the nation's two most populous states were voting Thursday on competing proposals as the battle over U.S. House maps intensified.
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Aug 20, 2025
The State Senate will vote Thursday on maps intended to help the G.O.P. win five more U.S. House seats in the midterm elections. California Democrats will counter on the same day.
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Aug 20, 2025
The Texas House passed a partisan congressional map on Wednesday after weeks of legislative combat.
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Aug 20, 2025
The former president suggested that Democrats opposing G.O.P. efforts in Texas and elsewhere should advance their own gerrymandering plans.
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Aug 20, 2025
Leaders of the Appropriations Committee are trying to tighten up funding legislation to give the Trump administration less leeway to refuse to spend federal money.
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Aug 20, 2025
State representatives ripped up permission slips that Republican House leaders gave Democratic lawmakers trying to leave the Capitol building. One even spent the night sleeping inside the chambers.
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Aug 19, 2025
A fiscal conservative who supported gun control and other liberal causes, he was the last Republican elected to serve his state as governor and to represent it in the House.
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Aug 19, 2025
Republican state lawmakers argue that Democratic lawmakers violated 30-day disclosure rules in the California Constitution.
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Aug 19, 2025
Democrats hope to recruit Governor Janet Mills to challenge the powerful Republican senator, but an oyster farmer with a working man's pitch thinks he has a better chance.
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Aug 18, 2025
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee said the department would miss a Tuesday deadline his panel set in a subpoena but would begin sharing some records on Friday.
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Aug 18, 2025
Republicans in Congress managed to recess for the summer without voting on the issue, but it has continued to dog them and awaits them when they return.
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Aug 18, 2025
Representative Mike Flood of Nebraska on why town halls are an American tradition worth keeping.
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Aug 17, 2025
President Trump, himself a felon, has shown particular leniency to criminals he seems to identify with — people who are white or wealthy, or who rioted in his name on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Aug 17, 2025
Many state delegations are already under single-party control. New maps could tighten the partisan grip while decreasing the importance of general elections.
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Aug 16, 2025
Thousands assembled around the country to demonstrate against a Republican effort to redraw congressional maps in their favor for 2026.
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Aug 16, 2025
Republicans have a clear advantage over Democrats in the total number of states that could redraw their maps.
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Aug 16, 2025
Representative Rob Bresnahan Jr. has traded stocks that could be affected by his work in Congress, raising questions about potential conflicts of interest.
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Aug 15, 2025
The actor-turned-governor helped overhaul how California draws political maps. In an interview with The New York Times, he said he would fight to preserve that legacy.
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Aug 15, 2025
The plan would help Democrats flip five seats, offsetting the gains Republicans hope to make by redrawing maps in Texas.
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Aug 15, 2025
Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, said he would look into whether the social media company's artificial intelligence technology endangers children.
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Aug 14, 2025
The leader of Democrats in the Texas House said the battle over redistricting, which could determine control of Congress, is likely to continue in the courts.
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Aug 14, 2025
The leader of Democrats in the Texas House said the battle over redistricting, which could determine control of Congress, is likely to continue in the courts.
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Aug 14, 2025
The Supreme Court's conservative majority kicked away the best, even last, chance at a national solution to a national problem.
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Aug 14, 2025
Why the left can't win without a new constitution.
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Aug 14, 2025
The Supreme Court's conservative majority kicked away the best, even last, chance at a national solution to a national problem.
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Aug 14, 2025
Why the left can't win until it reckons with this question.
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Aug 13, 2025
Senator John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton are vying to be the tougher candidate on Democratic lawmakers who left Texas, as potential Democratic rivals seek their own spotlight.
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Aug 12, 2025
The president cited a number of false and misleading claims about homicides and youth crime in the nation's capital.
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Aug 12, 2025
The former three-term senator is said to be running to get his old job back, delivering a recruitment coup for Democrats facing an uphill battle to win a Senate majority next year.
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Aug 12, 2025
A new level of partisan one-upmanship should spur urgent demands for reform.
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Aug 11, 2025
Millions of people could lose access to federal food aid or Medicaid, according to the Congressional Budget Office's latest analysis of President Trump's marquee legislation.
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Aug 11, 2025
Ankit Jain, the shadow Senator for the District of Columbia, said President Trump should focus on adding judges, not policing.
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Aug 10, 2025
Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona won his seat last year by outperforming national Democrats among Hispanic voters and men. He wants the party to listen to his message as it regroups.
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Aug 10, 2025
The Times editorial board argues that Congress must change the Federal Aviation Administration's funding structure.
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Aug 10, 2025
Gene Karpinski, who retired from leading the League of Conservation Voters after two decades, said the group that once backed G.O.P. candidates now finds it difficult to do so.
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Aug 09, 2025
Three Opinion writers on Trump's most recent power grabs.
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Aug 08, 2025
Democratic lawmakers maintained their walkout to thwart a Republican gerrymander, prompting Ken Paxton to ask the state's Supreme Court to remove 13 of them from their seats.
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Aug 08, 2025
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee said the Georgia Republican was betraying "American values." She says she is upholding "America First."
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Aug 08, 2025
Republicans say they are preparing to impose rules changes to speed confirmations after Democrats thwarted them before Congress headed into recess.
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Aug 08, 2025
When you're MAGA, they let you do it.
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Aug 08, 2025
Amy Klobuchar has taken a crucial step toward the view of the party's base.
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Aug 07, 2025
The senator said the agency had agreed to help locate Democratic state legislators who departed to try to block a vote on congressional maps. Democrats said federal law enforcement was being misused.
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Aug 07, 2025
The senator said the federal agency had agreed to help locate Democratic state lawmakers who left the state to try to block a vote on new congressional district maps.
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Aug 07, 2025
State Representative Gene Wu represents a racially diverse corner of Houston when he's not defending juveniles in court. The battle over redistricting has pushed him into the national spotlight.
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Aug 06, 2025
The effort by President Trump and his allies is the latest example of them trying to rewrite the rules to squeeze out every possible political advantage.
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Aug 06, 2025
The political and legal threats against Democrats who left Texas to protest a redrawn political map have gone further and faster than many anticipated.
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Aug 06, 2025
A conservative Trump ally in the Senate, Ms. Blackburn will now try to become the first woman to serve as governor.
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Aug 05, 2025
As a Texas senator summoned the F.B.I. to round up Democrats, the redistricting war that began in Texas was spreading, with California aiming at five Republican House seats.
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Aug 05, 2025
The committee's Republican chairman requested that the documents from the Justice Department and former government officials be delivered by Aug. 19.
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Aug 05, 2025
An angry crowd of more than 700 people in Nebraska heckled and booed Representative Mike Flood over the Republican congressman's support of President Trump's sweeping domestic policy bill.
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Aug 05, 2025
Most Republican lawmakers are avoiding town hall meetings, reluctant to confront energized Democrats and answer tough questions. When Representative Mike Flood of Nebraska gave it a try, the booing started in seconds.
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Aug 04, 2025
President Trump seized a moment ripe for another redistricting war.
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Aug 04, 2025
More than a dozen progressive lawmakers had signed onto a draft letter, but a lack of Republican support meant it was unlikely to affect policy decisions by the Trump administration.
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Aug 04, 2025
Derek Dooley, a former football coach, cast himself as an outsider candidate as the Republican primary field for a marquee midterm contest takes shape.
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Aug 04, 2025
Creative obstructionism in the Senate, says Tina Smith of Minnesota, has become "a fine art" that has nearly paralyzed the institution.
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Aug 03, 2025
In a social media back-and-forth, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York replied to Senator Ted Cruz of Texas that "anyone with basic decency" would respect the officer's Muslim faith.
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Aug 03, 2025
"Deporting immigrants is cruel," some of the ads against Cuban Americans in Congress read. Michael B. Fernández wanted to "wake up" Miami's conscience.
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Aug 03, 2025
The former Fox News host, whose false statements about the 2020 election were part of a lawsuit against the network, had been serving in the role on a temporary basis.
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Aug 03, 2025
Aware of its deeply unpopular national brand, the Democratic Party is turning to an unusually large crop of veterans to help it retake the House next year.
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Aug 02, 2025
The full Texas House will now vote next week on a map drawn to flip five House districts to the G.O.P., but Democrats might walk out to deny Republicans a quorum.
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Aug 02, 2025
Democrats' chances would be hurt if the map were approved, but they would still be favored.
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Aug 02, 2025
The Democrat from Nevada said she refused to be lectured about how to challenge President Trump, and she argues that her party needs to do more to gain voters' trust.
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Aug 01, 2025
Overwhelming bipartisan passage of $506 billion in federal funding masked a bigger fight ahead over funding the rest of the government before a Sept. 30 shutdown deadline.
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Aug 01, 2025
Dozens of demonstrators, calling for a flood of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, were arrested at the Manhattan offices of New York's two senators.
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Aug 01, 2025
As governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger championed the state's nonpartisan redistricting system. Now, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to pause it to help Democrats.
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Aug 01, 2025
The legislative hearing was part of a rapidly moving redistricting process, pushed by President Trump, that could see the map approved next week.
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Jul 31, 2025
Ms. Lucas, who has led efforts to attack diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, was confirmed by the Senate for a second term.
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Jul 31, 2025
The office of Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana asked the Department of Homeland Security to release the detainee, who is married to a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.
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Jul 31, 2025
The measure faces long odds given past Republican opposition to sending additional assistance to Kyiv, but it comes as President Trump has signaled a new openness to finding ways to back the nation.
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Jul 31, 2025
Plus, why the tsunami wasn't bigger.
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Jul 31, 2025
The proposed map would give Republicans a chance to gain five U.S. House seats, including in Houston, Dallas and along the U.S.-Mexican border.
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Jul 31, 2025
Plus, why the tsunami wasn't bigger.
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Jul 30, 2025
Joe Kent, a former Army Green Beret, had attracted scrutiny over his associations with extremist groups and his promotion of conspiracy theories.
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Jul 30, 2025
The bill passed the committee with the support of every Democrat and only one Republican, its sponsor, who modified it to shield President Trump from a divestment requirement.
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Jul 30, 2025
The bill passed the committee with the support of every Democrat and only one Republican, its sponsor, who modified it to shield President Trump from a divestment requirement.
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Jul 30, 2025
The 12 Democrats accused the Trump administration of violating the law when it turned them away from immigrant detention sites and imposed a new policy limiting congressional access.
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Jul 30, 2025
The Pennsylvania senator will recount political battles and physical and mental health challenges in "Unfettered."
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Jul 30, 2025
Under pressure to show they are resisting President Trump, Democrats have insisted on recorded votes on every nominee, creating a bottleneck ahead of the August recess.
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