The House’s decisive vote Tuesday to require the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, after President Donald Trump unexpectedly urged Republicans to support it, has thrust the controversy into the center of the 2026 political stage. Trump had spent weeks dismissing the push for disclosure as a Democratic distraction. But on Sunday night, he abruptly […]

A federal court’s surprise decision to block Texas Republicans from using their newly-drawn congressional map for the 2026 midterm elections has turned what began as an aggressive mid-decade redistricting offensive into a far murkier fight over who controls the House next year. The ruling, handed down Tuesday by a three-judge panel in El Paso, orders […]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s foreign minister said Wednesday that he will order the closure of the last Russian consulate still operating in the country after authorities said two Ukrainian citizens working for Moscow are suspected of blowing up a railway line in Poland. Radek Sikorski said he had repeatedly warned Russia that its diplomatic and consular […]

The House is set to vote soon on several bills related to the governance of Washington, D.C., including two bills hitting the House floor on Wednesday focused on criminal justice reform in the district. The lower chamber will consider the District of Columbia Cash Bail Reform Act and the CLEAN D.C. Act on Wednesday evening, […]