One in five members of Congress reports household investments in AI developers, chipmakers, cloud infrastructure providers, data center companies, or private AI startups, a Sludge analysis finds.

When Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune said earlier this year that an online pressure campaign to pass a Republican bill imposing new proof-of-citizenship requirements for voter ...

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The Wesley Bell campaign entered the final stretch of the hotly contested Democratic primary in Missouri’s First Congressional District with a 5-to-1 cash-on-hand advantage over incumbent Rep. Cori ...

As President Trump continues to postpone a legally mandated ban on TikTok, he is reaping campaign cash from one of the app’s biggest financial backers. Billionaire Jeff Yass, whose firm Susquehanna ...

Democratic Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen recently proposed bipartisan legislation that would create a new national coordinator to lead efforts to counter antisemitism, including steps to address the spread ...

As recently as 2021, the pro-Israel group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) eschewed spending money on elections so it could maintain an image of political neutrality. But now the group ...

This article is Part 3 of an ongoing Sludge series on donor-advised funds. Click here to read the other parts. The nation’s eighth-largest public charity is pouring tens of millions of dollars each ...

Senators are again squabbling over whether members of Congress should be allowed to buy, sell, and own stocks while they write and vote on legislation that affects their investments. On Wednesday, the ...

House Republicans this week failed to advance a bill to fund the Pentagon in fiscal year 2024, which begins October 1. Some members of the GOP’s House Freedom Caucus have vowed to oppose advancing the ...

A new centrist Democratic group called Promise to America that is pushing back against progressives will not say who is funding its effort—but is closely tied to the Welcome Party, a group whose PAC ...