Southern California

California ‘Can’t Bend the Knee’: Democrats Want Their State to Hold the Line on Trans Rights

By Samuel Larreal

A Group of Freshman Democrats Want to Let Citizens Sue Elon Musk Over DOGE Cuts

By Samuel Larreal

Gavin Newsom’s Push to Ban Homeless Encampments Is Making Housing Advocates Uncomfortable

By Amelia Benavides-Colón and Samuel Larreal

‘We Can Fight This’: California Lawmakers Don’t Want the State to Cooperate With Trump’s Education Ultimatum

By Mark Alfred

DOGE’s Multibillion-Dollar Contract Cuts Are Hitting Blue Districts Hardest

By Mark Alfred

DOGE Is Changing California — And Democrats Worry It’s Just the Start

By Mark Alfred

‘Everybody Is Waiting for Kamala’: Katie Porter’s Former House Colleagues Aren’t Racing to Back Her

By Samuel Larreal and Mark Alfred

California Democrats Aren’t On Board With Newsom’s Take on Transgender Athletes

By Mark Alfred and Samuel Larreal

California Democrats Left Trump’s Speech Disgusted as He Doubled Down on Federal Cuts

By Samuel Larreal and Mark Alfred

Wildfires Are Getting Worse. Democrats Are Divided on How to Address Them.

By Samuel Larreal

Trump’s Administration Is Targeting California’s Gas Car Ban. Its Strategy Is Legally Uncertain.

By Anna Kramer

California Republicans Boost Trump’s Tariff Plan, Even If It Makes Wildfire Recovery Efforts More Expensive

By Samuel Larreal

What’s to Blame for California’s Fires? Some Republicans Say DEI.

By Torrence Banks

Republican Hard-Liners Already Have a Problem With the GOP’s Reconciliation Strategy

By Reese Gorman

California Democrats Fume Over Trump Playing Games With Disaster Aid

By Mark Alfred and Samuel Larreal

California’s Disaster Insurance Problems Are a Political Nightmare for Lawmakers

By Claire Heddles, Anna Kramer and Mark Alfred

Ro Khanna Detained By Armed Israeli Settlers During West Bank Visit

By Angie Orellana Hernandez

Trump Administration Subpoenas New York Times Reporters Over Air Force One Story

By Angie Orellana Hernandez

Trump Officials Have Told Agencies to Find More Workers to Make At-Will

By Eric Katz

DHS Begins Search for Operator to Run Deportation Flights

By Angie Orellana Hernandez

Drain the Pool (Again)

By Marissa Martinez

Who’s Behind Those Mysterious Trump-Promoted ‘Freedom Fuel’ Gas Stations?

By Angie Orellana Hernandez

Trump and Iran ‘Might Get Worse Before It Gets Better’

By Akbar Shahid Ahmed

New Video Shows McConnell Being Loaded Into Ambulance on a Stretcher

By Angie Orellana Hernandez

The Housing Bill Trump Refused to Sign Becomes Law Without Him

By Raymond Fernández

AJ Dybantsa Understands the Assignment

By Jesse Dougherty

Democrats vs The ‘Red Scare’

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Manuela Silva

Senate Candidates Have Been Replaced Before. Here’s How It Went.

By Paul Kane

Diminished But Still Alive: Inside Russ Vought’s CFPB

By Jade Lozada

The Case of the Redacted SEC Conflict of Interest Waiver

By Taylor Giorno

Trump Purges Election Assistance Commission

By Marissa Martinez

DOJ Sues Maryland Over New Sanctuary Law

By Torrie Herrington

Appeals Court Keeps Block on Texas In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students

By Jackie Llanos

Chuck Grassley Joins Democrats in Demanding Info on Kash Patel’s Spending

By Jose Pagliery

Trump’s Draft Report on the State of the Nation’s Power Grid Centers On AI

By Mara Hoplamazian

Mexico Seeks Charges Over Deaths of Mexicans in ICE Custody

By Torrie Herrington

What Killed RFK Jr.’s Ads?

By Marissa Martinez

The White House Killed an RFK Jr. Ad Campaign. He Can Blame Kristi Noem.

By Paige Winfield Cunningham

Thuy Lan Nguyen

Erika Kirk Secures Release of More Evidence From Her Husband’s Killing

By Jenna Monnin

A New Poll Shows a Tight Fight for Platner Replacements

By Elena Schneider

Former Olympian Pleads Not Guilty to Reflecting Pool Vandalism Charge

By Angie Orellana Hernandez

The Maine Vacancy

By Evan McMorris-Santoro

Trump Is Deploying Every U.S. Refugee Officer to Just One Country

By Eric Katz and Natalie Alms

The Nats’ Trade Deadline Matters. But The Draft Matters More.

By Jesse Dougherty

Graham Platner’s Collapse Is a ‘Reckoning’ for Political Vetting

By Emily Kennard

How Northern Virginia Became ‘Data Center Alley’

By Taylor Giorno, Zara Norman and Samuel Larreal

Rep. García Faces New Meddling Accusations Ahead of Midterms

By Oriana González

The Lesson of Platner’s Exit: Trump Didn’t Change the Rules for Anyone Except Himself.

By Matt K. Lewis

Graham Platner Drops Out of Maine Senate Race

By Igor Bobic

Maine Democrats Are Eyeing the Nomination With Platner Out

By Torrie Herrington

Maine Mayhem

By Marissa Martinez

Judge Orders Disbursement of $5 Million Trump Owes E. Jean Carroll

By Angie Orellana Hernandez

Trump Isn’t Flying Home on His New Qatari-Gifted AF1

By Torrie Herrington and Joe Gould

Rahm Emanuel Changes His Tune on Israel in Fiery Speech From Tel Aviv

By Jenna Monnin

DOJ Issues Nationwide Threat to Prosecute Local Election Officials

By Jenna Monnin

Judge Dismisses Trump Media’s $3.8 Billion Suit Against The Washington Post

By Angie Orellana Hernandez

Trump Tells Ukraine to Make Its Own Missiles as U.S. Stocks Run Low

By Joe Gould

Kentucky Governor Demands McConnell Give an Update on His Condition

By Angie Orellana Hernandez

Susan Collins Slams Trump’s Attempted Overhaul of Federal Grants

By Anna Kramer

Trump Says Iran Ceasefire Is ‘Over’

By Hamed Ahmadi

Distance from Graham

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright

Ties to Graham Platner Could ‘Haunt’ a Replacement

By Christa Dutton

That Food Delivery Is Soon Going To Cost You a Little More in D.C.

By Martin Austermuhle

Democrats Are Drafting ‘Project 2029’

By Daniella Diaz

Health Insurers Are Proposing to Increase Premiums Again

By Paige Winfield Cunningham

Being Jewish Doesn’t Mean I Have a Secret Agenda

By Lauren Leader

Judge Voids a ‘Staggering’ DOJ Bid for Georgia Election Workers’ Personal Data

By Angie Orellana Hernandez

Trump Revokes Iran Oil-Sales Waiver After Strait of Hormuz Attacks

By Hamed Ahmadi

Republican Leaders Say They’ve Spoken With Hospitalized McConnell

By Angie Orellana Hernandez and Al Weaver

Trump’s Biggest Roadblock to Selling Jets to Turkey May Be Republican Lawmakers

By Joe Gould

Bernie Bails on Platner

By Marissa Martinez

Legal Defense Group Sues Administration for Sharing Asylum Records With Iran

By Angie Orellana Hernandez

Platner’s Last Pillar of Support Falls as Sanders Says: Drop Out

By Jenna Monnin

First Challenger Files Paperwork to Potentially Replace Platner

By Jenna Monnin

Democrats Battle the Clock — And Each Other — To Replace Platner

By Igor Bobic

Trump Says He’s Removing Sanctions and Weighing F-35 Sales for Turkey

By Jenna Monnin

Matt K. Lewis

After All That, the USMNT Is Done

By Dave Sheinin

Platner’s Fall

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright

RFK Jr. Is Preparing to Reshape Another Key Health Panel

By Paige Winfield Cunningham

Kalshi Co-founders Are Hedging Their Bets on 2026 Midterms

By Samuel Larreal

How Redistricting Squeezed House Democrats’ Fundraising

By Kadia Goba and Oriana González

Dear Fellow Conservatives: Stop Conflating Socialism with Communism.

Top Democratic Leaders Call for Platner to Withdraw from Senate Race

By Torrie Herrington

U.S. to Resume Troop Deployment to Poland, Polish Defense Minister Says

By Joe Gould

Alex Ovechkin’s Return Puts an Exclamation Point on the Caps’ Big Offseason

By Dave Sheinin

Graham Platner Weighs the Future of His Campaign After New Allegation

By Christa Dutton

New Platner Bombshell

By Brett Bachman

White House Accuses Smithsonian of Anti-White Bias and ‘Extreme’ Activism

By Jenna Monnin

Ellie Silverman

Todd Ruger

Mara Hoplamazian

America’s Largest Cities Over 250 Years, Mapped

By Andrew Van Dam

Lockheed Martin Is Covering the Cost of Trump’s White House Helipad

By Jenna Monnin

Money Problems and Clashes With Staff: Inside Arena Stage Director’s Exit

By Rebecca Ritzel

Rebecca Ritzel

A Fair Deal?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Jenna Monnin

The Company Processing ICE’s Medical Payments Hasn’t Paid Out a Dime

By Jackie Llanos

It’s the Summer of Sports and Politics

By Jesse Dougherty

5 Things To Watch as Trump Heads to the NATO Summit

By Joe Gould

D.C.’s Broken 311 App Has Sparked a Debate Over Government, Tech and AI

By Martin Austermuhle

States Raised Concerns about the Great American State Fair’s Rush, Cost and Confusion

By Jenna Monnin and Sam Fortier

Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble

By Eric Katz

Trump Asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player’s Suspension Before it Was Reversed

By Jenna Monnin

After the 250th Party: Debris, ‘Code Red’ Air Quality and Patriotic Memories

By Jenna Monnin

Mallory McMorrow Drops Out of Michigan’s Senate Primary Race

By Stephen Neukam

Trump Gets His July Fourth Rally After a Weather Delay

By Derek Hawkins

DOGE Is Officially Ending. Agencies Are Hiring Again.

By Natalie Alms and Eric Katz

Big Lobbying Spenders Are Going All Out at the Great American State Fair

By Dave Levinthal

Democratic Socialists of America Are Seeing Surge in Membership

By Adora Brown

The Secret Service Risked ‘Mission Effectiveness’ with Understaffing, Watchdog Says

By Derek Hawkins

Tucker Carlson Is Starting a Third Party. Those Who’ve Tried Say: Good Luck!

By Torrie Herrington

Puerto Rico Is Still Waiting on Billions in Aid Nine Years After Hurricane Maria

By Jade Lozada

Mollusk Mania

By Marissa Martinez and Brett Bachman

Grand Jury Indicts Former Olympian Over Reflecting Pool Damage

By Angie Orellana Hernandez

Former Agriculture Officials Say the Trump Administration Missed Screwworm Warnings

By Tyler Spence

AOC Endorses Abdul El-Sayed in Hotly Contested Michigan Senate Primary

By Angie Orellana Hernandez

Hegseth Bristles at ‘Ingrates’ Protesting His Appearance in D.C.

By Jade Lozada

We Still Don’t Know What the National Mall Fireworks Show Will Cost

By Anna Kramer

White House Proposes Cutting Hospital Payments for Scans

By Paige Winfield Cunningham

In a Gutsy World Cup Win, the USMNT Refused to Retreat

By Dave Sheinin

250th Birthday Blues

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright

Trump and America’s 250th Overshadow the Republican Tax Cuts Anniversary

By Al Weaver and Kadia Goba

‘Dark Money’ Group Paid Democrat Janelle Stelson for Disappearing Podcast

By Avani Kalra

Just Weeks Into a Summer of Celebration, D.C. Residents Are Already Feeling Fatigue

By Shamira Muhammad

Which College Majors Have the Best (and Worst) Career Paths?

By Andrew Van Dam

Matt K. Lewis: Don’t Let Trump Ruin Your Fourth of July

Tom Kean’s Absence Shows How Congress Has Failed Itself

By Paul Kane and Joe Gould

Sorry, Democrats: Your Midterm Hopes Are Probably Overblown

By John B. Judis

Dana Milbank: Trump’s Nutty State Fair Hijacked the Fourth of July. And My Pen.

Prosecutors to Review More Than 1,000 Cases After Broadview Six Debacle

By Torrie Herrington

Undoing ‘The Best Agreement’

By Marissa Martinez

Meet the Highest-Paid White House Staffers

By Torrie Herrington

Trump 2.0 Won’t Renew Key Trade Deal Trump 1.0 Negotiated

By Jade Lozada

E. Jean Carroll Moves to Collect the $5 Million Trump Owes Her

By Angie Orellana Hernandez

Karoline Leavitt’s Old Campaign Remains Awash in Red Ink

By Taylor Giorno

James Comer Says Oversight Will Hold Public Hearings on Epstein

By Reese Gorman and Ed Demaria

Kash Patel’s Late Stock Disclosure Raises STOCK Act Questions

By Dave Levinthal

Schumer’s Bad Bets

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright

Chuck Schumer Hits His Limit

By Alex Roarty, Elena Schneider, Stephen Neukam and Igor Bobic

DOGE Cut Off Small Town America’s 250th Birthday Money

By Anna Kramer

‘The Battle Line Has Been Drawn’ Around Virginia’s Data Centers

By Taylor Giorno, Zara Norman and Samuel Larreal

Next Up for High-Flying USMNT: Confronting Its European Boogeyman

By Dave Sheinin

Lawmakers Join the World Cup Bandwagon

By Igor Bobic

Mark Kelly Backs Another Hegseth Foe In Latest Endorsement Push

By Joe Gould

Dana Milbank: Israelis Need to Understand that America Is About to File for Divorce

Colorado’s Diana DeGette Lost Her Primary to a Democratic Socialist

By Christa Dutton

Michael Bennet Loses His Bid for Governor

By Torrie Herrington

Trump Discloses More Than $1.1 Billion In Crypto Earnings

By Marissa Martinez

FDA Lowers Risk Profile for RFK Jr.’s Preferred Nicotine Pouches

By Torrie Herrington

Mike Johnson Can’t Get Control of the House

By Stephen Neukam and Avani Kalra

Trump Announces Republican Midterm Convention

By Torrie Herrington

Gavelanche

By Marissa Martinez

Trump Wants Congress to Limit Birthright Citizenship. A Path Isn’t There.

By Violet Jira

Trump Administration Freezes New York’s Medicaid Fraud Unit Funding

By Jenna Monnin

Jackson Delivers Scathing Birthright Opinion Aimed at Thomas

By Angie Orellana Hernandez

Officials Lay Out Plan to Transform Downtown D.C. for Trump’s July 4 Bash

By Derek Hawkins

NPR Publishes False Report Saying Justice Samuel Alito Retired

By Jade Lozada

Tom Kean Jr. Reveals Depression Caused His Months-Long House Absence

By Jade Lozada

Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Order on Birthright Citizenship

By Jackie Llanos

Supreme Court Upholds State Laws Restricting Trans Athletes

By Oriana González

The Supreme Court Just Upended Campaign Finance Law

By Taylor Giorno and Alex Roarty

Johnson’s Defense Bill Gamble Collapses

By Joe Gould

What Will New RFK Site Look Like? This Plan Offers Clues.

By Martin Austermuhle

The Court’s Big Day

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright

Colorado Democrats Debate What Matters More: Electability or Representation

By Elena Schneider and Christa Dutton

‘Fiscal Responsibility’ Congressman Plans to Stiff Two-Dozen Campaign Creditors

By Christa Dutton

Five Questions Facing the Capitals This Offseason

By Scott Allen

Labor Union to Congress: Our Embezzlement Problems Got Bigger

By Taylor Giorno

A New AI Tool Lets Candidates See What Chatbots Are Telling Voters

By Jenna Monnin

Cryptocurrency Industry Courts Democrats by Pouring Millions Into Elections

By Avani Kalra and Jade Lozada

Matt K. Lewis: I’m a Never Trump Conservative Who Used to Love Marco Rubio. Should I Still Believe in Him?

The Great American State Fair’s ‘MAHA Monday’ Is Lacking in MAHA

By Margaret Manto

Eliza Dorton

Trump’s July 4 Bash Will Close D.C. Airspace for 15 Hours

By Torrie Herrington

25 States Sue Trump Administration Over Medicaid Work-Requirement Rule

By Jenna Monnin

Hegseth Stocks Defense Policy Board With Trump Allies Following Purge

By Angie Orellana Hernandez

New Trump Diplomatic Nominee Is a Palantir Multimillionaire

By Samuel Larreal

Trump Won’t Commit to Signing Housing Bill He Called ‘A Big Yawn’

By Jade Lozada

DOJ is Investigating Ruben Gallego Over Alleged Campaign Finance Violations

By Oriana González and Derek Hawkins

Trump Courts Fire

By Marissa Martinez

Trump’s Pick for Ethics Czar Is a Political Operative

By Eric Katz

Nancy Pelosi Lines Up Her Next Gig

By Angie Orellana Hernandez

Ethics Panel Dismisses Misconduct Complaint Against Sen. Ruben Gallego

By Oriana González

Trump Must Pay E. Jean Carroll After SCOTUS Declines to Hear His Appeal

By Jenna Monnin

Ruben Gallego’s Campaign Lawyer Created a Mystery Nonprofit

By Oriana González