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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti on Tuesday announced a bid for Congress in Pennsylvania, adding yet another competitive Democrat to the 2026 midterm election lineup in a state that gives her party perhaps its best chance to gain multiple seats without redrawing congressional lines. The ranks of Democrats now running for Congress in Pennsylvania include a prominent …

WASHINGTON — A government shutdown deadline, a standoff over President Donald Trump’s nominees and a renewed clash over the Jeffrey Epstein files await Congress as it returns Tuesday after a month-long August recess. Pedestrians walk past a flag that reads “Free DC” hanging on an overpass near the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC, on Aug. 15, 2025.Jim Watson / …

Congress is back. They have more to deal with than a potential shutdown.  Politico Congress returns after recess as threat of government shutdown looms – US politics live  The Guardian Trump administration live updates: Congress faces shutdown fight, Epstein files vote  NBC News Democrats Flinched During the Last Spending Showdown. They Should Do It Again.  Politico Congress returns to face chaotic funding fight, Epstein …

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Catherine Shoard Woody Allen has said he was impressed by the acting abilities of Donald Trump when he directed the now-president in the 1998 film Celebrity. Speaking on Bill Maher’s Club Random, Allen said Trump was “a pleasure to work with and a very good actor”. …

Longtime Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler to retire from Congress  The Washington Post Nadler, Pillar of Democratic Party’s Old Guard, Will Retire Next Year  The New York Times Longtime New York Rep. Jerry Nadler says he will not seek reelection  CNN Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler will not seek reelection  Fox News Rep. Jerry Nadler announces retirement, citing Biden’s loss  Politico Source link

Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, the longest-serving New Yorker in the House, will not seek reelection in 2026, stating that there’s a “necessity for generational change in the party.” In an interview published Monday in The New York Times, Nadler said that after watching former President Joe Biden withdraw from the 2024 election following his rough debate against President Trump, he …

Congressional Republicans scored a massive victory this summer when they passed President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts without a single Democratic vote. But as they return to Washington this fall after a monthlong August recess, they will have to find a way to work with Democrats — or around them — as a government shutdown looms. The annual spending …

Longtime Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, a liberal lion and the longest-serving member of Congress from New York, will not seek re-election. Nadler represents a significant swath of the borough of Manhattan and had served as the chair and ranking member of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, which put him at the center of three presidential impeachments. In revealing his plans …

Coping with a sudden loss in federal funding, PBS affiliate KSPS in Spokane, Washington, faced a surprise extra hurdle. Many of its contributing members — at one point almost half — lived in Canada, and they were withdrawing support out of anger at President Trump’s desire to make the country the 51st state in the U.S. When Congress decided this …

Lawmakers have known for decades that U.S. entitlement programs are on unsustainable paths as demographics inevitably skew the population older. Attempts to come up with a fix have gone nowhere, but the expected insolvency of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds by 2034 will serve as a catalyst, with the bond market forcing Congress to bite the bullet, according …