Brian Slodysko

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump greets people after a Fox News Channel town hall Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, in Greenville, S.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Trump faces warning signs that his fundraising prowess may have limits in 2024 campaign

February 21, 2024 at 4:52 p.m.

Donald Trump’s legendary ability to raise massive sums of political cash may be on a collision course with a new and unpleasant reality. Campaign finance reports released this week flashed...

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures as he leaves a campaign rally Saturday, July 29, 2023, in Erie, Pa. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Trump’s campaign finances are strained as legal peril mounts

August 1, 2023 at 3:28 p.m.

Donald Trump’s political operation enters the second half of the year in a strained financial position. Its bank account is drained by tens of millions of dollars that were directed...

FILE – Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch poses for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. Teaching is encouraged as a way to demystify the Supreme Court while exposing the justices to a cross-section of the public. Yet documents obtained by The Associated Press through public records requests reveal that some all-expense paid trips, particularly to attractive locales stateside and abroad, are light on classroom instruction, with ample time carved out for the justices’ leisure. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justices teach when the Supreme Court isn鈥檛 in session. It can double as an all-expenses-paid trip

July 11, 2023 at 8:42 a.m.

Documents obtained by The Associated Press through public records requests reveal that some all-expenses-paid trips 鈥� to Italy, Iceland and Hawaii, among others 鈥� are light on classroom instruction, with...

Facebook removes GOP Senate candidate鈥檚 “RINO hunting” video

June 20, 2022 at 7:00 p.m.

Facebook on Monday removed a campaign video by Republican Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens that shows him brandishing a shotgun and declaring that he's hunting RINOs, or Republicans In...

Indiana state Sen. Erin Houchin, R-Salem, ...

Crypto comes to Washington. Will the millions buy influence?

May 12, 2022 at 11:16 a.m.

Erin Houchin braced for the worst when a mysterious, well-financed group started buying television ads last month in her highly competitive southern Indiana congressional race.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks during a memorial service for former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., into the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol as Reid lies in state, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022, in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AP)

Democrats switch strategy on voting bill as Biden pushes action

January 13, 2022 at 8:14 a.m.

Senate Democrats are trying to force a public showdown over their sweeping elections legislation, aiming to launch debate on a key party priority even though there's no assurance the bill...

Invoking Jan. 6, Democrats pivot to fight for voting legislation

January 10, 2022 at 9:35 p.m.

Democrats are mounting an impassioned bid to overhaul Senate rules that stand in the way of their sweeping voting legislation, arguing dark forces unleashed by Donald Trump’s falsehoods about the...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., ...

Congress sends Biden $2.5T debt limit hike, avoiding default

December 14, 2021 at 11:13 p.m.

Congress averted a catastrophic debt default early Wednesday morning after Democratic majorities in both chambers voted to send a $2.5 trillion increase in the nation's borrowing authority to President Joe...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., tells reporters ...

Progressive Democrats pressure Pelosi to discipline Lauren Boebert

December 8, 2021 at 7:14 p.m.

A group of progressive Democrats on Wednesday ratcheted up pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to punish firebrand conservative Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, whose recent comments likening a Muslim member...

FILE – In this April 4, 2017 file photo, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka listens at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Richard Trumka, longtime president of AFL-CIO, dies at 72

August 5, 2021 at 4:10 p.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Richard Trumka, the powerful president of the AFL-CIO who rose from the coal mines of Pennsylvania to preside over one of the largest labor organizations in the...

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