President Trump will host President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil at the White House on Thursday, at a moment of a fragile truce following a tense year of U.S. tariffs and public insults between the leaders of the Western Hemisphere’s largest nations. Mr. Trump has subjected Brazil to a whiplash of measures, only…
When Jordan Wood, a progressive running for an open congressional seat in Maine, woke up on Monday morning, his husband looked at him as if someone had just died. No one had. But while he was sleeping, Mr. Wood had missed some jarring news: An official from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had left a…
President Trump, who promoted a hands-off approach to artificial intelligence and gave Silicon Valley free rein to roll out the technology, is considering the introduction of government oversight over new A.I. models, according to U.S. officials and people briefed on the deliberations. The administration is discussing an executive order to create an A.I. working group…
Democratic officials added eight candidates on Monday to a list of top contenders in congressional midterm battlegrounds, wading into a handful of contested primaries to make clear the party leadership’s preference in some of the country’s most critical districts. The additions by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to its “Red to Blue” program bring the…
Counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka is one of the most controversial figures in the Trump administration, a gate crasher in the buttoned-up world of national security. In a field where quiet professionalism is revered, Gorka is loud and mercurial. With a booming, British-accented voice, he describes U.S. operations turning suspected terrorists into “red mist” and stacking…
The Supreme Court’s blow to the Voting Rights Act had barely landed on Wednesday when Senator Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, called on lawmakers to eliminate the last Democratic-held House seat in the state. Taking to social media shortly after the ruling, Ms. Blackburn, the favorite to become the state’s next governor, urged the Legislature…
One of this year’s biggest fights over the future of regulation of the artificial-intelligence industry is about to get even more expensive and contentious. Chris Larsen, a tech billionaire from California, said he planned to spend $3.5 million in the coming weeks to help a New York congressional candidate who is facing a barrage of…
Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana issued an executive order delaying House primary elections on Thursday, a day after the Supreme Court ruled Louisiana’s congressional map unconstitutional. He also requested that the legislature reconvene and pass new congressional maps. All other Louisiana races, including a hotly contested Senate primary, will continue, with early voting set to…
The House on Wednesday voted to extend a high-profile warrantless surveillance law for three years, but the fate of the measure was uncertain as the Senate vowed to make changes that could delay final passage past the program’s midnight expiration on Thursday. Bipartisan approval of the bill capped a chaotic struggle in the House, where…
On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine and acting comptroller Jules Hurst visited the House Armed Services Committee for the trio’s first public hearing since the start of the Iran war. In this new edition of Pentagon Buzz, Breaking Defense Pentagon reporter Ashley Roque breaks down…
