On the evening of April 22, the Horizon Event Center outside Des Moines, Iowa, was packed. It’s little wonder. With many months still to go before the Hawkeye State holds its first-in-the-nation Republican presidential primary, likely and confirmed contenders for 2024 flocked to the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition’s 2023 Spring kick-off, hoping to show…

U.S. House New Democrat Coalition (NDC) caucus Chair Annie Kuster (D-N.H.), Vice Chair for Policy Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.), and NDC Policy Task Force Leaders hold a press conference at 10:30 a.m. ET on March 10 to announce the Coalition’s nine new policy task forces for the 118th Congress. The policy task forces will focus on…

U.S. House New Democrat Coalition (NDC) caucus Chair Annie Kuster (D-N.H.), Vice Chair for Policy Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.), and NDC Policy Task Force Leaders hold a press conference at 10:30 a.m. ET on March 10 to announce the Coalition’s nine new policy task forces for the 118th Congress. The policy task forces will focus on…

A family of four from India were found dead on Jan. 19, 2022, near the Canadian border with Minnesota. The mother, father, and two small children—Vaishaliben Patel, 37; Jagdish Patel, 39; Dharmik, 3; and Vihangi, 11—were not dressed for the weather, but they walked through a blizzard in subzero temperatures and ultimately froze. A year…

Former South Carolina Governor and 2024 presidential hopeful Nikki Haley sounded hawkish on Ukraine outside Des Moines, Iowa, in a speech kicking off her tour through the first state on Republicans’ primary and caucus calendar. “This is a war about freedom, and it’s a war we have to win,” she said of the Ukraine conflict,…

U.S. House Democrats Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (Calif.), Vice Chair Ted Lieu (Calif.), Rosa DeLauro (Conn.), Richard Neal (Mass.), and Brendan Boyle (Pa.) hold a press conference at 10:45 a.m. ET on Jan. 10. The Epoch Times will livestream the event. …

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says neither he nor his Progressive Conservative caucus members will be endorsing anyone for the leadership of the federal Conservative party. When asked about it Tuesday at an unrelated announcement in Brampton, Ont., Ford said both he and the people in his caucus have their hands full supporting the people of…

Campaign finance reports filed last week show the deepest pockets in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race belong to Lt. Gov.  John Fetterman, a Democrat, but other apparently well-financed candidates have not yet been required to file financial reports with the Federal Election Commission. Republican David McCormick officially got into the race late, registering as a candidate…

OTTAWA—Manitoba MP Candice Bergen is waking up with a new job today: unifying the Conservative caucus. The party’s former deputy leader was elected by her colleagues to serve as interim leader after a majority of MPs ousted Erin O’Toole from the top job. Bergen faces a caucus that has spent weeks divided and angry over…

It’s caucus season in Pennsylvania, when regional political party caucuses interview candidates, then hold straw polls ranking them by preference. With five Republican caucus meetings down and a final one happening Wednesday, Feb. 2, party insiders are questioning the way Pennsylvania’s Northwest Caucus handled its vote during its meeting Saturday in Knox, Pennsylvania. During the…