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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., center, and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, third from left, listen Tuesday as former President Donald Trump arrives for his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to an extramarital affair.

Congress

Johnson visits Trump trial to criticize hush money prosecution

Speaker echoes GOP criticisms that prosecutions are keeping former president off campaign trail

By Michael Macagnone
Posted May 14, 2024 at 11:16am

Sen. Ben Cardin is seen in the Capitol in April, before the Senate passed a more than $95 billion war funding package that included money for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.

Heard on the Hill

This is Sen. Ben Cardin’s next crusade

By Justin Papp
Posted May 14, 2024 at 6:15am
Ranking member Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., right, makes an opening statement as Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., looks on, during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing in March.

Congress

Lawmakers issue ultimatum to tech platforms over data privacy

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted May 14, 2024 at 7:00am
Lael Brainard, director of the National Economic Council, said China is flooding the global marketplace with underpriced products.

White House

Citing unfair trade, Biden hikes tariffs on Chinese EVs, batteries

By David Jordan
Posted May 14, 2024 at 6:35am
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland waits to testify during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing last month.

Congress

House GOP details case for contempt of Congress against Garland

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 13, 2024 at 6:11pm
This is not a year when any rational voter should believe in ticket splitting, or that a Democratic Congress could contain a President Trump bent on vengeance, Shapiro writes. Above, the Capitol is seen at dusk in October.

Will the last ticket-splitting voter please turn out the light?

By Walter Shapiro
Posted May 14, 2024 at 6:00am
Photographers and camera crew on Enewetak Atoll during Koa nuclear test as part of Operation Hardtack, a series of 35 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1958 at the Pacific Proving Grounds.

Radiation compensation bill’s backers plan Hill blitz

By Mike Magner
Posted May 14, 2024 at 5:31am

The Global Impacts of the US 2024 Election

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted May 2, 2024 at 11:09pm
Angela Alsobrooks, Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Maryland, claps with Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., as local officials speak during her “All in for Angela” campaign event at McGinty’s Public House restaurant in Silver Spring on April 24, 2024.

Colleagues’ support for Alsobrooks comes with checks

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted May 13, 2024 at 6:28pm, Updated at 8:52pm
Campaign signs for Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Nikki Haley beside a sign asking voters to write in President Joe Biden before the recent New Hampshire primary. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A threat to democracy no one is talking about

By David Winston
Posted February 7, 2024 at 6:00am, Updated May 13, 2024 at 6:27pm
Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif., left, sponsored the legislation that would seek to prevent the administration from pausing any arms shipments to Israel.

House poised to vote on Israel arms after mixed report on their use

By Rachel Oswald
Posted May 13, 2024 at 5:11pm

The Complete AI and ChatGPT How-To Guide For Government Affairs

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 29, 2024 at 5:13pm
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., tried to remove provisions from the FAA bill that add flights to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Less turbulent ride for FAA bill predicted in House

By Valerie Yurk
Posted May 13, 2024 at 3:52pm

Capitol Lens | It’s Police Week

By Tom Williams
Posted May 13, 2024 at 3:35pm
Kari Lake, Republican Senate candidate from Arizona, is seen in the Capitol after a meeting with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on March 6.

Race ratings change after polling in Arizona, indictment in Texas

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted May 13, 2024 at 2:47pm

What Constituent Correspondence Reveals About Voter Sentiment

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted February 28, 2024 at 11:41am
The Supreme Court on April 29.

Louisiana voters ask Supreme Court to change congressional map

By Michael Macagnone
Posted May 13, 2024 at 1:09pm
Palestinians who fled Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip transport their belongings in the back of a truck as they arrive to take shelter in Khan Yunis on Sunday.

Israel report further clouds Biden’s approach to Gaza conflict

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 13, 2024 at 11:30am
Independent Senate candidate Dan Osborn plans to pay himself a salary from his campaign.

Union activist running against Fischer in Nebraska to draw campaign salary

By Daniela Altimari
Posted May 13, 2024 at 11:30am

2024 CQ Election Watch Briefing Series

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted April 22, 2024 at 12:11am
A conviction could result in prison time for New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, 70, who in 2015 was indicted on federal corruption charges in a separate case.

Sen. Bob Menendez corruption trial set to begin in New York

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 13, 2024 at 5:00am
The independent Office of Congressional Ethics looked into allegations about Rep. Troy Nehls last year and referred them to the House Ethics Committee. In an update Friday, the chair and ranking member of the House panel said they are gathering more information.

House Ethics panel probing Troy Nehls’ campaign rent payments

By Justin Papp
Posted May 10, 2024 at 6:13pm
Rep. David Trone, D-Md., has put nearly $62 million of his own money into his campaign for Senate.

Millionaires making election moves in Maryland, Nebraska and West Virginia

By Mary Ellen McIntire, Daniela Altimari and Herb Jackson
Posted May 10, 2024 at 5:09pm
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to media in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall on May 6, 2024. Her unsuccessful attempt to oust Speaker Mike Johnson highlights this week’s Congressional Hits and Misses.

‘Geek out a bit’ — Congressional Hits and Misses

By Chris Hale
Posted May 10, 2024 at 4:22pm
Back before the discussion turned to a worm that ate part of his brain, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was a star witness for the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government at a July 30, 2023 hearing.

Editor’s Note: Dead dogs, porn stars and brain-eating worms: Congress can barely compete

By Jason Dick
Posted May 10, 2024 at 3:09pm
Steve Bannon, former adviser to President Donald Trump, addresses the media outside a federal court in Washington on Oct. 21, 2022, after being sentenced to four months in prison for defying a congressional subpoena.

Appeals court upholds Bannon contempt of Congress convictions

By Michael Macagnone
Posted May 10, 2024 at 12:30pm
Ducklings nap near their mother on the edge of the Capitol Reflecting Pool on Monday.

Photos of the week ending May 10, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted May 10, 2024 at 9:38am

At the Races: Jobs not judges

By John T. Bennett, Daniela Altimari, Mary Ellen McIntire and Niels Lesniewski
Posted May 9, 2024 at 2:30pm, Updated at 5:36pm
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., leaves a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol in 2014.

Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry reindicted, this time in DC

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 9, 2024 at 1:32pm
President Joe Biden salutes as he steps off of Marine One before departing Chicago O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on Wednesday.

Takeaways from Biden’s candid CNN interview as he warns Israel

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 9, 2024 at 1:08pm

Capitol Ink | Come on Aileen

By R.J. Matson
Posted May 9, 2024 at 7:00am
A Capitol Police officer confronts a rioter who broke through a window on the first floor of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

‘The Sixth’ shows what some don’t want to see

By Jason Dick
Posted May 9, 2024 at 6:15am
Ignorance of history makes it much easier to sell the lie that the 2020 election was stolen, Curtis writes. Above, voters in Washington, D.C., wait in line on Election Day in 2022.

Blocking voters you don’t like is a shameful American tradition

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted May 9, 2024 at 6:00am
Some 2,225 hospitals have received the Biden administration's new "birthing friendly" designation, leading some to question the value of the label.

‘Birthing friendly’ label requires little effort by hospitals

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted May 9, 2024 at 5:00am
Sen. Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., who leads the Senate Foreign Relations Middle East subcommittee, said Israel's “potential invasion of Rafah would clearly not be in compliance with U.S. and humanitarian law.”

Pause in arms to Israel over Rafah offensive reverberates on Hill

By Rachel Oswald
Posted May 8, 2024 at 7:06pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., on Wednesday.

Greene’s ouster attempt of Johnson is tabled

By Aidan Quigley
Posted May 8, 2024 at 6:35pm
Reps. Brandon Williams, R-N.Y., right, and Mike Garcia, R-Calif., are both on the latest ranking of the most vulnerable House members up for reelection this year.

No shortage of House members who are vulnerable this year

By Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari
Posted May 8, 2024 at 6:10pm
Activists protest at the Supreme Court as the court hears oral arguments in March in a case about access to mifepristone, the drug used in medication abortions.

Supreme Court to decide contentious issues amid ongoing criticism

By Michael Macagnone
Posted May 8, 2024 at 3:32pm

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