Blowing off Democratic lawmakers could doom Hegseth ’s push to enact President Donald Trump ’s unprecedented Pentagon budget increase, which worries Republicans who are largely supportive of it.

Fresh off a narrow win in Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley on Wednesday ...

Rep. Max Miller gave more than $70,000 in campaign cash to over a dozen congressional Republicans in the cycle’s most ...

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MILWAUKEE — The near-miss nomination in Wisconsin of state Rep. Francesca Hong, with her tweets circa Woke 1.0, should serve as something more than a crisis-averted moment for mainline Democrats.

A news organization and free speech nonprofit sued President Donald Trump over his social media platform’s program that offers paid early access to his posts after the scheme went live at the ...

TOPEKA, Kansas — A small Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly newspaper to end her federal lawsuit over a police raid of the paper’s offices in 2023 that ignited a ...

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A former Southern Poverty Law Center official has been charged in the Department of Justice’s broader criminal case against the Alabama-based civil rights group, a frequent target by conservative ...

YOU GET AN ELECTRON: Put your finger down if you were expecting electricity rate design to become a centerpiece of the California governor’s race. Yesterday evening, frontrunner Xavier Becerra made it ...

Researchers have repeatedly warned of security flaws inside U.S. voting infrastructure, though they — as well as numerous state and federal agencies that audit U.S. elections — have found no evidence ...

Distillation, a technique for extracting capabilities from AI models, has become a bogeyman in Washington. Major American AI companies have accused developers in China of distilling their proprietary ...