SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two Sacramento-area congressional candidates have poured record amounts of personal money to fund their campaigns.

Longtime Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, and political newcomer Eric Jones both reported millions in self-funding in the latest federal reports filed Thursday. Both Democrats had already contributed large ...Read more

PARK CITY, Kan. — President Donald Trump on Monday urged Kansas voters to reelect U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall in a wide-ranging speech that largely attacked Democrats and faced opposition from several protesters.

Trump appeared at a rally supporting Marshall at Heartland Credit Union Arena in Park City, a suburb of Wichita, as Republicans look ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers in both parties are assailing President Donald Trump for a series of decisions this month that critics say ally the U.S. government with the Kremlin amid its ongoing war on Ukraine, now in its fifth year.

In the last 10 days, the U.S. government:

—Announced a six-month waiver of sanctions on purchases of Russian ...Read more

Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt visited neighboring Kansas on Monday, flying from Washington, D.C., to Wichita with President Donald Trump to rally for Republican Senate colleague Roger Marshall.

Standing on the tarmac in front of Air Force One, Schmitt told his social media followers he was heading out on the campaign trail with Trump.

“A lot at...Read more

WICHITA, Kan. — A Kansas man is facing federal charges, accused of making threats on social media to shoot U.S. President Donald Trump under TV news posts about his political rally Monday in Park City.

Federal prosecutors say a Crime Stoppers tip Thursday led authorities to investigate the Facebook posts from 24-year-old Jaden John Read, of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A wave of suspicious letters mailed to members of Congress is likely to continue, House officials warned Monday, describing a white powder in the envelopes.

So far, “none of the letters received by Congressional offices have been determined to contain hazardous substances,” according to a memo sent to members and staff and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Border czar Tom Homan said he was told that federal investigators have a “strong case” against U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and that it is possible she could be deported if she committed any wrongdoing.

In an appearance on Fox News’ “The Big Weekend Show” on Saturday night, Homan answered several questions about the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider outlawing school diversity policies that limit Asian American students at magnet programs and selective high schools.

Three years ago, the court ruled that Harvard and other universities may not discriminate on whom they admit based on the race of their applicants. Evidence in that ...Read more

MIAMI — A “suspicious envelope” was sent to the Sunrise office of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Monday afternoon, police said.

The envelope was received by a “representative” in Wasserman Schultz’s office at 777 Sawgrass Corporate Pkwy., Sunrise Police spokesman Victor Fortune said.

The envelope “was safely secured and ...Read more

Bob Brooks, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Lehigh Valley, announced Monday afternoon he will no longer participate in the only planned debate with his opponent, Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, this week.

In a statement, Brooks campaign spokesperson Benny Stanislawski cited “outright lies against [Brooks] that go completely outside of the ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego region’s most competitive congressional election could prove a referendum on national politics and the Trump administration. But another theme is defining messaging in the race: ethics and transparency in how the candidates run political campaigns.

Mailers and attack ads from both camps are hitting the records of ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Amy Klobuchar and Lisa Demuth offered competing visions for Minnesota’s economy on Monday, debating how to lower costs, stop fraud, attract businesses and regulate the fast-growing artificial intelligence industry.

Demuth, the Republican speaker of the Minnesota House, tried to tie rising costs to Democratic policies and Gov. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In a Pennsylvania swing district that’s seen some of the sharpest and highest volume of attack ads this fall, Democrat Bob Brooks has called on U.S. Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, R-7th, to take down ads that he said were false and defamatory.

A lawyer for Brooks — a union leader and retired firefighter who is considered one of the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — On a screen filtered by night-vision goggles, U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick’s campaign asks voters in a digital ad to “decide” between the Republican lawmaker deployed to Iraq as an al-Qaeda interrogator and his Democratic challenger, Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, who the ad’s narrator claims was “engaged in a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Michigan U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin tangled online with conservatives angry over her remarks last week about holding Trump officials accountable for corruption and specifically her suggestion that such moves might dissuade young graduates from going to work for the administration.

A clip of her remarks circulating on social media ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Monday defended ordering the extensive redevelopment of a historic Washington, D.C. public golf course in defiance of a federal judge’s orders.

The duffer in chief announced the imminent closure of the East Potomac Golf Course, the closest links to the White House, for a planned 15-month renovation to transform it ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon and independent progressive Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders countered the recent onslaught of campaign advertisements against her in a double-header rally in Gainesville Sunday.

“Why is it that when you turn on your TV screen, you see ugly ads against her hour after hour after hour? Why...Read more

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to rally the Republican faithful — and keep them from staying home in the midterms — arguing that polling is bad and the party of President Donald Trump can still defy political gravity.

“Even even some of our own candidates who are doing internal polling, even they have a hard time getting ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In debates and advertisements ahead of the midterm elections, Democratic candidates for Senate are consistently pressing their opponents on artificial intelligence data center policy, often as a proxy for voter fears about the economy and local impacts.

In Ohio, former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is fond of calling Republican ...Read more

Right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are locked in a tie less than a week ahead of Brazil’s runoff election, according to a new poll.

Bolsonaro would take 50.3% to Lula’s 49.7% of valid votes, excluding blank and null ballots, according to a BTG Pactual/Nexus survey published Monday. The senator ...Read more