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By STEPHEN GROVES, MARY CLARE JALONICK and MATT BROWN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The consequences of a government shutdown setting in, senators labored Thursday to find a way forward but found themselves struggling to overcome a fundamental lack of trust between the two parties. Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Thursday afternoon floated an

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Democratic Rep. Katie Porter gained a reputation on Capitol Hill for grilling corporate executives at House hearings, white board in hand. But it was Porter — now a candidate for California governor — who found herself growing edgy under questioning by a TV

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans vote down Democratic effort to curb Trump’s use of war powers against drug cartels.

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says he wants to save Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex that has become a symbol of dysfunction in the city’s criminal justice system. The city is legally required to shutter its jails on Rikers and replace them with four smaller, more modern

By WILL WEISSERT and EVAN VUCCI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was holding a roundtable event with conservative influencers about antifa when Secretary of State Marco Rubio, standing in the back corner of the White House’s Blue Room, caught his eye. He had news for Trump, he said, but it would have

By STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans voted down legislation Wednesday that would have put a check on President Donald Trump’s ability to use deadly military force against drug cartels after Democrats tried to counter the administration’s extraordinary assertion of presidential war powers to destroy vessels in the

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff is building a cash hoard even as he is already spending heavily on his 2026 reelection campaign. Ossoff, the only Democrat seeking reelection next year from a state that President Donald Trump won in 2024, said Wednesday that he raised more than

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said Wednesday he was troubled that partisanship seemed to be “creeping its way into the court,” and that the state of political discourse in the country has gotten so vulgar and vile that he worries for the country. The tone of

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed ready Wednesday to revive a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, which have been a target of President Donald Trump. The justices are considering the narrower issue of whether a GOP congressman has the legal