Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the administration’s intention to sack Donald Kinsella.

The walkout, affecting nearly 50,000 students, could present one of the biggest tests of Daniel Lurie's young mayorship.

Should talks with state lawmakers not pan out, the Parents and Kids Safe AI Act campaign is reserving the option to go for the 2028 ballot.

The Trump administration contends that a state law on parental notification of a child's gender identity violates federal law.

Nearly 1,800 bills and proposed constitutional amendments have been filed so far for the 2026 session. Only two bills have passed the Legislature so far.

Adam van Koeverden joins from the Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina, while back home Ottawa confronts a national tragedy.

House GOP leaders shielded their most vulnerable members from politically explosive votes for more than a year. Now the fallout is reverberating.

Attorney General Pam Bondi had vowed to transfer the prisoners.

The United States' eroding reputation is raising fresh questions about the stability of the global order that has held for decades, and of the country's strength on the world stage.

Trump wanted to take six Democrats down for telling servicemembers to ignore illegal orders. He might’ve made them more influential instead.

New York-Presbyterian nurses voted down a tentative agreement, while Montefiore and Mount Sinai nurses approved new deals.

Tensions flared between Democrats and the Attorney General during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz on Wednesday said he will schedule a classified briefing about the Federal Aviation Administration’s temporary closure of the airspace above El Paso, Texas, which sparked a confusing, hourslong saga earlier in the day. Emerging from an unrelated congressional briefing with FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford, Cruz, a Texas Republican, referenced the Transportation Department’s public statement about the matter and said he doesn’t have further details. Earlier on X, DOT Secretary Sean Duffy blamed the incident on a “cartel drone incursion,” adding that the restriction had been lifted and flights were resuming. But POLITICO reported the closure was sparked by a standoff between the FAA and Defense Department over the military’s testing of anti-drone technology at a nearby Army base. “I have no reason to doubt what the secretary said, but I think a number of us would like to see a classified briefing very soon,” Cruz said. “At this point, the details of what exactly occurred over El Paso are unclear,” he added. Following the Wednesday briefing, which was related to the Trump administration’s ongoing air traffic control overhaul, Bedford referred POLITICO to Duffy’s comment when questioned about the closure. “Read Secretary Duffy’s tweet,” he said. But Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) told reporters that it was clear from Bedford’s closed-door talk with senators that there was a serious communications lapse between the FAA and DOD. “There needs to be a briefing in the SCIF if they’re not willing to talk to us in here and explain to the American people what’s going on,” Luján said, referring to a specialized room for sharing classified information. “Why one federal agency can’t talk to another federal agency to explain whether it’s a training mission or it’s an incursion, or whatever the hell is going on. I look forward to getting in the SCIF.” “Why didn’t they pick up the phone and call each other?” Luján asked. He said Bedford didn’t push back on the idea of a follow-up briefing. Lead Art: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks with reporters at the Capitol on Jan. 15, 2026. | Francis Chung/POLITICO

The House passed a major GOP elections overhaul Wednesday after intense pressure from President Donald Trump, tech mogul Elon Musk and hard-right influencers. But the legislation still has no clear path forward in the Senate, where Republicans privately acknowledge there is enough GOP support to skirt a Democratic filibuster as Trump is demanding. The SAVE America Act, an updated version of a bill tightening voter registration standards that the House passed last year, was approved on a 218-213 vote. One Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, voted for it — down from the four who backed the earlier effort. Conservative hard-liners wanted the bill attached to a massive government funding package this month, threatening to extend a four-day partial government shutdown until Trump intervened and ordered House Republicans to pass the bill without it. The legislation would trigger major changes to how Americans vote, including requiring voters to present proof of citizenship to register, eliminating mail-only registrations, and requiring photo ID in every state for the first time. It would also require states to take new steps to remove noncitizens from existing voter rolls. The GOP’s hope is that the focus on election integrity and Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was “rigged” will help drive turnout among MAGA voters when Trump isn’t on the ballot this November, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss internal strategy. The vote is also meant to satisfy the president’s demands for a voting crackdown as he mulls bigger overhauls many Republicans oppose, like “federalizing” America’s election system and ending mail voting. But the House vote hands a hot potato to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who has ruled out changing Senate rules to weaken the 60-voter supermajority threshold to pass the bill and has reacted coolly to suggestions a “talking filibuster” approach could work instead. House GOP leaders deployed a procedural feint, using a Senate-passed shell bill to try to fast-track consideration in the other chamber — part of the Trump-backed push to try to force a reckoning on the filibuster. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) poured cold water on House Republicans’ celebratory mood this week. Even before the House vote Wednesday, Murkowski announced she would oppose it — lambasting the bill as “federal overreach.” Her move sparked an onslaught of recriminations from House Republicans, who are still pushing Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson to find a way to send the bill to Trump’s desk. Lead Art: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks alongside Reps. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Andy Harris (R-Md.) during a press conference on Capitol Hill on the 20th day of a government shutdown, Oct. 20, 2025. | Francis Chung/POLITICO

The order is the Democratic governor's latest effort to rebuff the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.

Six Republicans voted in favor of the resolution, which now goes to the Senate. The president would almost certainly veto it.

The president doubled down on his decision not to invite two Democratic governors to a bipartisan event in Washington.

Tony Lyons told POLITICO Republican candidates must demonstrate they support Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again mission to win midterm votes.

The Democratic governor has insisted she will not OK a tax hike on rich people and large corporations.

The talks over Iran come just weeks after protests rocked the country amid economic instability that threatened to destabilize the regime.