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White House is expected to submit plans for new ballroom to planning commission this month

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is expected to submit plans for President Donald Trump's new ballroom to a federal planning commission this month, about three months after construction began.

Will Scharf, who was appointed by Trump as chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission, said at the panel's monthly meeting Thursday that he has been told by colleagues at the White House that the plans will be filed sometime in December.

“Once plans are submitted, that’s really when the role of this commission, and its professional staff, will begin,” said... Read More

Florida starts redistricting talks in a growing battle for House control in 2026 elections

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s Republican-controlled House officially kicked off the first meeting of its select committee on congressional redistricting Thursday, as the state becomes the latest to consider redrawing electoral maps amid a partisan battle for every edge in next year’s midterm elections.

But the prospect of mid-decade redistricting in President Donald Trump's adopted home state remains uncertain, with the top Republican on the committee stopping short of committing to draft new maps and appearing to draw a deeper divide among his party's leaders on how... Read More

Tennessee special election shows the power of partisan gerrymandering as Trump pushes for more of it

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As a leader of the College Democrats at Vanderbilt University, Luci Wingo knew the odds of a Democrat winning one of Nashville's three U.S. House seats weren't great. Yet her hope grew as the party mounted an aggressive campaign for its candidate, Aftyn Behn, in a special election to replace a Republican who had resigned.

In the end, high Democratic enthusiasm and millions of dollars in spending weren't enough. Republican Matt Van Epps won Tuesday's vote by 9 percentage points — a closer margin than the district's last election, yet still a victory for... Read More

NY attorney general challenges authority of acting US attorney investigating her Trump lawsuits

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s effort to install political loyalists as top federal prosecutors has run into a legal buzz saw lately, with judges ruling that his handpicked U.S. attorneys for New Jersey, eastern Virginia, Nevada and Los Angeles were all serving unlawfully.

On Thursday, another federal judge heard an argument by New York Attorney General Letitia James that the administration also twisted the law to make John Sarcone the acting U.S. attorney for northern New York.

James, a Democrat, is challenging Sarcone's authority to oversee a Justice... Read More

Trump praises Congo and Rwanda as they sign US-mediated peace deal

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump praised the leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda for their courage as they signed onto a deal on Thursday aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Congo and opening the region's critical mineral reserves to the U.S. government and American companies.

The moment offered Trump — who has repeatedly and with a measure of exaggeration boasted of brokering peace in some of the world's most entrenched conflicts — another chance to tout himself as a dealmaker extraordinaire on the global stage and make the case that he's... Read More

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White House is expected to submit plans for new ballroom to planning commission this month

Florida starts redistricting talks in a growing battle for House control in 2026 elections

Tennessee special election shows the power of partisan gerrymandering as Trump pushes for more of it

NY attorney general challenges authority of acting US attorney investigating her Trump lawsuits

Trump praises Congo and Rwanda as they sign US-mediated peace deal

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