SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Weeks before voting ended in California’s primary for governor, Los Angeles-based influencer Shaka Smith took to Instagram to tell his more than 700,000 followers whom he was voting for and why. “Healthcare shouldn’t bankrupt you, housing should not feel impossible, pollute
By Steve Gorman Aug 7 (Reuters) – New Jersey civil rights officials have opened an investigation into the treatment of detainees at a controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark run by the private prison company GEO Group, the state attorney general said on Friday. A stateme
The battle for control of the U.S. Senate isn’t supposed to run through Mississippi. Scott Colom is trying to convince people that it could. “We can win here, and we’re going to,” said Colom, the Democratic nominee who’s trying to unseat Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith as she seeks her second full
By Jarrett Renshaw and Ernest Scheyder WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. Export-Import Bank is lending $58 million to three critical-mineral companies as part of President Donald Trump’s push to wean the country off Chinese supplies and bolster American mining and processing, according to a doc
By Daniel Wiessner Aug 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Friday confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominees for two spots on the agency that enforces federal labor law, giving Republicans enough votes to undo a series of key decisions that were widely seen as a boost to union organizing. The Republic
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Friday approved career economist Brett Matsumoto as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, potentially easing trust concerns after President Donald Trump fired the previous head a year ago over weak employment numbers. Matsu
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate easily passed sweeping Russia sanctions legislation on Friday, advancing a long-delayed measure backed by late Senator Lindsey Graham and setting the stage for consideration by the House of Representatives within weeks. Graham, a Sou
By Humeyra Pamuk and Ryan Patrick Jones Aug 7 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is renewing his effort to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, keeping alive his assault on the central bank’s independence even after the U.S. Supreme Court in June dealt him a significant setback in his bid t
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Democrats will gather Friday in a show of unity behind their statewide candidates, three days after a bitter U.S. Senate contest highlighted divisions between the progressive and moderate wings of the party. Abdul El-Sayed, a former public health official who narrowly beat es
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday nominated a senior lawyer at the Federal Communications Commission to serve on the five-member agency as he presses it to revoke the licenses of broadcasters. The White House said Trump is tapping Danielle Thuman
WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Reuters/Ipsos conducts polls of national U.S. public opinion on a variety of political, business and social topics including a regular reading on the approval of the president and on Americans’ views of which party they want to run Congress. WHAT DO PUBLIC OPINION POLLS
By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) – A U.S. federal appeals court ordered Donald Trump’s administration on Friday to stop construction on a $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House’s demolished East Wing, dealing the Republican leader a major setback in a case testing his pres
WASHINGTON (AP) — An ongoing corruption scandal involving Hawaii’s lieutenant governor looms over Saturday’s state primary as nine candidates jockey to replace her. Meanwhile, a longtime Democratic congressman who bucked his party and supported one of President Donald Trump’s top legislative priorit
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy said Friday he’ll back Todd Blanche’s nomination as attorney general, likely paving the way for Blanche to be confirmed to lead President Donald Trump’s Justice Department. Blanche’s prospective confirmation appeared threatened earlier Friday, when Republican Sen. Lisa M
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Scott Colom is a gregarious prosecutor who grew up in Mississippi with a Republican father who campaigned for Ronald Reagan and counted political titan Thad Cochran as a friend. That background sounds ideal for a U.S. Senate hopeful in a Deep South state run for generations by
By Ernest Scheyder Aug 7 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to build the Western Hemisphere’s largest aluminum smelter in rural Oklahoma has divided the state’s Republican voters and emerged as a key issue in the contentious race to be the next governor. The two Republicans who will face
By Andrew Goudsward and Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Republican Senator Bill Cassidy said on Friday he would back Todd Blanche for attorney general, clearing a path for Donald Trump’s nominee after weeks of scrutiny over the Justice Department’s independence from the White House
By Joseph Ax and Jason Lange WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Progressive Democratic proposals including “Medicare for all” and new taxes on billionaires have powered insurgent candidates including Abdul El-Sayed to primary victories this year, shaking the party establishment and leading it to worry ab
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Trump has signed executive orders limiting automatic citizenship in specific cases after a Supreme Court decision blocked a broader effort. The orders target birth tourism, certain foreign diplomats, and members of designated terrorist groups. Willie Nelson, the White Hou
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration targeted more universities on Thursday over issues like race and diversity in admissions and pro-Palestinian protests, marking the federal government’s latest crackdown against U.S. schools. The Department of Jus
Aug 6 (Reuters) – The bipartisan ethics proposal senators have pitched to President Donald Trump to get landmark crypto legislation over the line in Congress could trigger a significant tax benefit for the president, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. The benefit will include the ability to defer
(Corrects Rand Paul’s last name in paragraph 1 by removing extraneous letter) WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that Dr. Anthony Fauci should be prosecuted, hours after Republican Senator Rand Paul said that he would ask the Justice Department to do so.
WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Thursday targeting birthright citizenship, a month after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Republican president’s bid to restrict the practice. The orders expand the definitions of people who are ineligible for bi
WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Longtime Republican U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell said he was released from a rehabilitation center on Thursday and would continue his recovery from a fall and from pneumonia at home. “On the advice of my doctors, I’ll maintain an intensive regimen of physical therapy fr
By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Senator Rand Paul on Thursday asked the Justice Department to prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci for refusing to answer questions about the COVID-19 pandemic after a Senate committee voted to hold the former top infectious disease official i
By Courtney Rozen and Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) – In a rare show of bipartisanship, Democrats and Donald Trump’s conservative supporters both blame the president’s ties to the tech industry for his administration’s limited response to recent hacks carried out by OpenAI and Anthropi
By Andrew Goudsward and Brad Heath WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) – In one courtroom after another, federal judges have accused U.S. President Donald Trump’s Justice Department of an extraordinary spate of misconduct, including making false statements, failing to comply with court orders and improperly
By David Morgan WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Tennessee Republicans head to the polls on Thursday to choose their nominee for governor in a tightening race between two of President Donald Trump’s closest allies in Congress: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn and U.S. Representative John Rose. Blackburn,
By Helen Coster NEW YORK, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Progressive candidates continue to rack up wins in primary elections across the United States, propelled by a new left-wing media ecosystem allowing them to build a national profile on their own terms — and sidestep the traditional gatekeepers of the Democ
By Jason Lange and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Five months into the U.S. war with Iran, Americans who expect the Middle East to slide toward chaos outnumber those who see the war bringing more stability by three to one, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The six-day poll concluded
