The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, a magazine advice columnist who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s in a widely-publicized civil lawsuit, according to multiple reports.

According to CNN, The New York Times and other outlets, federal investigators are probing...Read more

MIAMI — Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz announced Thursday that he will run for Florida’s newly redrawn 25th Congressional District, setting the stage for one of the few competitive congressional races in Florida this November.

The district stretches from Miami Beach north to Delray Beach after changes approved under Gov. Ron DeSantis�...Read more

A federal grand jury in April 2026 charged James Comey with making a threat against President Donald Trump and transmitting a crime across state lines.

The charges came after Comey, the former FBI director, posted an image of seashells on a North Carolina beach, arranged in the form of the numerals “86” and “47.” Forty-seven ...Read more

Barron Trump was noticeably absent from family photos shared online from his brother Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding in the Bahamas over the weekend.

That’s because Barron Trump skipped the wedding of his eldest half-brother to Palm Beach socialite, Bettina Anderson — like his father and mother, Donald and Melania Trump, the Daily Mail ...Read more

DENVER — Evan Munsing, a Democratic candidate for one of the nation’s most hotly contested congressional races — Colorado’s 8th District — has suspended his campaign, he announced Wednesday.

The decision comes just over a month before the June 30 primary election, in which Munsing was to take on former state Rep. Shannon Bird and ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — While a proposed state bill could give voters a chance in November to enshrine stricter abortion laws into the North Carolina Constitution, previous attempts to pass similar legislation have hit dead ends.

Rep. Keith Kidwell, a Beaufort County Republican, filed House Bill 1232 earlier this month. If it passes, voters would be ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The gloves finally came off in person between the Republican hopefuls for South Carolina governor as they sparred in their third televised debate as early voting is underway.

Here are five takeaways from Tuesday’s debate that featured U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, Isle of Palms businessman Rom Reddy and ...Read more

MIAMI — After missing dozens of congressional votes this spring and while waving off resignation rumors, Miami Rep. Frederica Wilson is staring down one of the most pivotal decisions of her career: step down and pass the baton to a Democratic hopeful or hold on and weather another Congress under Donald Trump.

The possibility of Wilson’s ...Read more

The House Judiciary Committee, under the leadership of Chair and Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has sent letters to Boston’s law enforcement leaders demanding documents and information on the city’s sanctuary policies as the Trump administration continues its nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration.

The letters by Jordan and...Read more

NEW YORK — Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso is defending organizers’ phone calls to voters that suggest Mayor Zohran Mamdani supports him in the Democratic primary for the NY-07 congressional district, when the mayor actually backs rival Assemblywoman Claire Valdez.

Reynoso says he sees nothing wrong with the calls from the left-...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House Armed Services Committee chairman released on Tuesday a proposed $1.15 trillion fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act that emphasizes bolstering America’s defense industry.

The so-called “chairman’s mark” from Rep. Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., would authorize almost $1.15 trillion for the base-budget part of...Read more

Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it.

Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent.

This silence comes in the wake ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former President Joe Biden is suing the U.S. Justice Department to block officials from sharing audio recordings and interview transcripts he gave for a memoir project with Republicans in Congress and a conservative advocacy group.

The extraordinary lawsuit, which pits a former U.S. president against his successor’s ...Read more

Three independents submitted the thousands of signatures needed to get on the November ballot in Illinois’ 4th Congressional District, teeing up a rare general election for a federal seat in which candidates from outside the major parties have a real shot.

Each needed to turn in at least 10,816 signatures by the Tuesday deadline. They tackled...Read more

NEW YORK — A Brooklyn man with a history of mental illness apparently upset with reductions to safety net programs left graphic messages on the White House’s web page threatening to kill President Donald Trump at his next public speaking engagement, federal prosecutors allege.

Justin Christopher Moore, 53, wrote three screeds on the “...Read more

DETROIT — Troy Mayor Ethan Baker announced his Republican candidacy for Michigan's 11th Congressional District.

If successful, Baker would flip the congressional district, which encompasses much of Oakland County. Democratic U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens represents the district but is leaving her seat in her bid to represent Michigan in the Senate....Read more

MIAMI — As he sits in a federal prison awaiting sentencing on criminal charges related to his lobbying work for an American subsidiary of Venezuela’s oil company, David Rivera’s prominent friends are sticking by him publicly and financially.

Alina Garcia, Miami-Dade’s elected supervisor of elections, offered to put up her home as ...Read more