Former Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, has put on a suit nine times since 2014, when he retired after serving in Congress for 40 years. He counts. He spends much of his time in the Bahamas now, where he sails and rarely looks back at his years in the Senate with any wistfulness. “People hang on because they want […]

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to block two Illinois laws prohibiting the sale of high-powered guns and high-capacity magazines while challenges to them move forward. The court’s brief order gave no reasons, which is typical when the court acts on requests for emergency relief. There were no noted dissents. Several other states, including California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, […]

Gov. Jared Polis vetoed a bill Tuesday that would’ve standardized how Colorado prison inmates apply for their sentences to be commuted, part of the first package of vetoes the governor has issued this year. In a letter to the bill’s sponsors, Polis wrote that the measure was unconstitutional and infringed upon his sole authority to grant clemency. HB23-1214 would’ve required […]

‘China is the largest threat we face’, says Liz Truss Liz Truss will warn the west it cannot trust China to follow the rules, in what will be an incendiary speech overnight in Taiwan. Her visit will be the first to Taiwan by a former British Prime Minister since Margaret Thatcher in 1992. Despite threats from Communist Party officials, an […]

Jacob Rees-Mogg lists three ‘huge’ Brexit benefits Brexit was one of the achievements of the Conservative government ignored by Michael Gove when he was asked to list them at the National Conservatism conference in Westminster. The Communities and Levelling Up Secretary was one of the leading figures in Vote Leave who helped deliver victory in the EU referendum in 2016. […]

With time running out to strike a debt limit deal, President Biden and congressional leaders are set to meet Tuesday for pivotal face-to-face negotiations at the White House to avoid a default that economists say could eliminate jobs and cause a recession. The 3 p.m. meeting comes a day after Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen reiterated that the United States […]

Though 2023 is an off year for American politics, largely dominated by the emerging Republican presidential primary race and a series of scandals and controversies, there are still critical elections this year, offering an early window into the mood of voters in both parties before 2024. In Kentucky, a divisive Republican primary for governor will come to a close on […]

The News Denying the results of the 2020 election and casting doubts about the nation’s voting system cost statewide Republican candidates 2.3 to 3.7 percentage points in the midterms last year, according to a new study from States United Action, a nonpartisan group that promotes fair elections. Why It Matters: Consequential races were close. Even at the lowest end of […]

Grant Shapps says that Starmer wants to ‘reopen’ Brexit Sir Keir Starmer has insisted Labour is not trying to reverse Brexit despite eyeing up plans to hand the vote to millions of EU citizens. The Labour leader has been accused by Tory MPs of a “sinister” plot to drag the UK back into the bloc with proposals to expand the […]