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WASHINGTON — Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, an immigration hard-liner and climate change skeptic, announced Thursday that he will leave Congress at the end of his current term. He’s the second GOP chairman this week from Texas to retire. He chairs the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, and under GOP rules would hit a

WASHINGTON — A liberal activist group on Thursday labeled Ralph Northam’s campaign “racist,” criticizing the Virginia Democrat running for governor a day after he declared that he would not support “sanctuary cities” for undocumented immigrants. “Let’s be really clear: If Ralph Northam wins next Tuesday, it won’t be because he publicly backtracked on his commitment

Hillary Clinton’s campaign took over the Democratic National Committee’s funding and day-to-day operations early in the primary season and may have used that power to undermine her rival Senator Bernie Sanders, according to the party’s one-time interim chairwoman. The DNC official, Donna Brazile, now a political analyst, wrote in Politico Magazine on Thursday that she

Talia Osteen had never considered herself particularly political before the election of Donald Trump last year. The 34-year-old musician from California was concerned by social issues and often volunteered to help the homeless. But she found the cut-and-thrust of the Washington Beltway too divorced from her everyday life — until things got “personal.” “I’m a