Politico Top Stories News55714 stories between 11/10/2009 at 18:33:04 and 01/26/2025 15:36:06
Dem rivals to Kamala Harris: Hurry up and decide
The former vice president has told allies she will make a decision on whether to run for California governor by late summer.
09:14 PM on 03/21/2025 Politico Top Stories California Democrats are in control. So why are they worried?
Modest legislative ambitions and a subdued response to the second Trump administration mark a striking departure for the state.
10:00 AM on 03/21/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump workforce cuts could create a recruiting opening for adversaries
The intelligence community has long feared the potential threat posed by disgruntled former employees.
12:01 PM on 03/21/2025 Politico Top Stories The nations cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
05:00 AM on 03/21/2025 Politico Top Stories Sex, Drinking and Dementia: 25 Lawmakers Spill on What Congress Is Really Like
We interviewed Democrats and Republicans — on the record and anonymously — about life on Capitol Hill, what broke Congress and a whole lot more.
04:45 AM on 03/21/2025 Politico Top Stories Opinion | The DEI Purge Will Weaken Our Military
Morale and recruiting will suffer while racist and sexist behavior will increase.
10:00 AM on 03/21/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump aides circulate plan for complete revamp of foreign aid programs
The proposal provides new details on how the administration plans to overhaul USAID — and what programs it expects to eliminate.
02:21 PM on 03/19/2025 Politico Top Stories DOGE enters Institute of Peace amid staff resistance
An Institute of Peace security official said DOGE pressured a contractor to gain entry.
01:52 PM on 03/19/2025 Politico Top Stories How major law firms are responding to Trumps attacks
Law firms are torn on how to handle the new Trump administration as the president targets some of their own.
05:55 AM on 03/19/2025 Politico Top Stories Ivey puts Schumer on notice: 'We can't afford to have that happen again'
The Maryland Democrat said the House minority leader met the moment, but the top Senate Democrat missed the mark during the spending fight.
12:33 PM on 03/19/2025 Politico Top Stories Dems pile on Schumer as bashing goes mainstream
The criticism isn’t just coming from activist groups or the halls of Congress.
09:59 AM on 03/19/2025 Politico Top Stories Hill Republicans already hated the idiotic call to impeach judges. Then Trump jumped in.
The speaker has to deal with a new Trump-driven demand just as he moves to put the GOP's policy agenda into overdrive.
04:45 AM on 03/19/2025 Politico Top Stories The Fed's forecast on Trump's economy: Slower growth, higher inflation
The Fed chief said “a good part" of a projection for higher prices is coming from tariffs.
12:12 PM on 03/19/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump says he had very good telephone call with Zelenskyy
The call came a day after Trump’s lengthy conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
11:51 AM on 03/19/2025 Politico Top Stories You see? Russia broke Trumps hyped partial Ukraine ceasefire after 1 hour
Moscow struck civilian infrastructure Tuesday night, prompting Ukraine to respond with counterattacks.
06:30 AM on 03/19/2025 Politico Top Stories Punching allies in the face: Trump sparks US weapons conundrum for Europe
The U.S. president’s repeated attacks have raised worries about Washington’s reliability, but decades of dependence on American equipment has no quick fix.
10:54 AM on 03/19/2025 Politico Top Stories 5 ways Trumps mass deportations are meeting resistance. And why it may not matter.
Administration efforts have been hitting turbulence on multiple fronts.
11:55 AM on 03/19/2025 Politico Top Stories Deeply concerned: Crash victims' families ask DOT not to water down Tesla oversight
The families of several people killed or seriously injured in crashes involving Teslas using self-driving technologies are asking Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy not to allow Elon Musk to influence crash probes or oversight rules.
05:00 AM on 03/19/2025 Politico Top Stories California Democrat takes on ultra-processed food and RFK Jr.
A state lawmaker says his push to revamp school lunches “predates” the national health secretary.
09:16 AM on 03/19/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps pardons spark fresh fights over abortion clinic safety
Democratic state lawmakers are trying to bolster protections, but those efforts are imperiled by legal fights.
10:00 AM on 03/19/2025 Politico Top Stories March 2025
Political cartoons from the desk of Matt Wuerker.
05:19 PM on 03/19/2025 Politico Top Stories Opinion | To Really Get Peace in Ukraine, Consider Why Putin Started the War
My father opposed Putin and was killed. Understanding Putin’s need for domestic repression holds lessons for how to end the war he started.
10:00 AM on 03/19/2025 Politico Top Stories The Long and Relentless Arc of Chuck Schumer
The Senate minority leader has a history of delivering bitter medicine when the party most needs it.
07:09 PM on 03/19/2025 Politico Top Stories How Matt Gaetz poisoned the House Ethics Committee
The panel is still reeling from accusations of leaks and breaches of confidentiality in the previous Congress.
04:45 AM on 03/18/2025 Politico Top Stories Schumer is doing damage control. It isnt working.
The Senate minority leader and his aides have been talking privately with liberal groups.
08:14 PM on 03/18/2025 Politico Top Stories Centrist Democrats are having their moment
A string of special elections and some polling show the party might be getting pulled to the middle.
05:55 AM on 03/18/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps mass deportation plans hit riskier phase with legal immigrants, court fights
The new strategy, especially involving immigrants with green cards or American spouses, poses political test.
05:55 AM on 03/18/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump, already on a collision course with the courts, hits the gas
Trump and his allies’ attacks on a judge weighing the validity of the president’s deportation orders escalated an already tense power struggle between the co-equal branches of government.
05:01 PM on 03/18/2025 Politico Top Stories The judge who tried to stop the deportation planes is not happy with the Trump administration
Judge James Boasberg is demanding answers about the three planes that rushed Venezuelan nationals from the U.S. to El Salvador over the weekend.
09:04 PM on 03/18/2025 Politico Top Stories Words of advice for Trump ahead of high-stakes call with Putin
Some former U.S. officials would like the president to cancel it altogether.
09:00 PM on 03/18/2025 Politico Top Stories Racing to catch up to well-funded rivals, Cuomo raises big in first mayoral filing
A super PAC supporting the ex-governor reported pulling in $1.5 million on his behalf.
05:00 AM on 03/18/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump nixes Secret Service protection for Hunter and Ashley Biden
The president’s order will remove security details totaling about 30 agents that protect the former president’s adult children.
08:02 PM on 03/18/2025 Politico Top Stories White House says it will not return the Statue of Liberty to France
A French politician said the U.S. no longer deserved the legendary monument.
03:33 PM on 03/18/2025 Politico Top Stories Italian vendetta: SEC targeted by triumphant crypto industry
The industry's pushback reflects the hostile reality facing federal agencies and workers today — one that Trump has openly welcomed.
05:00 AM on 03/18/2025 Politico Top Stories Opinion | Trump and Rubio Used an Obscure Law to Attempt to Deport a Columbia Protester. In the Past, the Same Law Excluded Jews.
All Americans should be shocked. American Jews should be deeply alarmed.
02:00 PM on 03/18/2025 Politico Top Stories Chris LaCivita Has No Patience for Dumb Europeans and Stock Market Bedwetters
The former campaign adviser is perfectly fine with the "swift kick in the ass" the new president is delivering to the system.
07:00 AM on 03/18/2025 Politico Top Stories Terrible for Their Relationship: The Schumer-Jeffries Split Explodes in Public
“To beat Trump, we need clarity of purpose, discipline and coordination," one top Democratic strategist said. "It’s clear none of that exists right now.”
06:28 PM on 03/18/2025 Politico Top Stories A College President Gets Real About Trumps Attack on Universities
Wesleyan University President Michael Roth lets loose on Trump’s executive orders and the detention of Mahmoud Khalil.
12:43 PM on 03/18/2025 Politico Top Stories Congress Is Falling Apart But These 5 Guys Look Good Doing It
Politics is ugly. The fashion doesn’t have to be.
04:45 AM on 03/18/2025 Politico Top Stories It Really Is Trumps Party Now
With Tuesday's spending vote, the president vanquished some of his final foes inside the GOP.
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