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A former congressman from Philadelphia has pleaded guilty to charges related to fraudulently stuffing ballot boxes for Democratic candidates between 2014 and 2018.

Former Philadelphia congressman and longtime local political consultant Michael “Ozzie” Myers was indicted this week on eight counts of federal crimes related to alleged election fraud. NBC10 investigative reporter Claudia Vargas has the details.

New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer says he’s outraged over what he called a “disgusting smear campaign” in which he says someone sent out a fake letter saying he was resigning over a sex scandal.

Upping a feud with an influential black lawmaker, President Donald Trump on Sunday assailed Rep. Elijah Cummings as a “racist” over the “rodent-infested mess” in his district while White House aides sought to downplay his comments as frustration over Democrats’ unrelenting investigations. In a series of tweets, Trump insisted that his comments Saturday referring to Cummings’ majority-black district as a...

President Donald Trump on Saturday denigrated a majority-black district represented by a congressional nemesis as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” broadening a campaign against prominent critics of his administration that has exacerbated racial tensions. Trump lashed out in tweets against Rep. Elijah Cummings, the powerful House Oversight Committee chairman, claiming his Baltimore-area district is “considered the worst run...

East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell kicked off his 2020 presidential campaign with a rally in Dublin Sunday afternoon.

Another prominent critic of President Donald Trump has joined the dozen-plus Democrats who want to challenge him in 2020. East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell officially declared his bid for the 2020 presidential race Monday evening in an appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” after much speculation and visits to Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and other states in the...

In the first dueling rallies of the 2020 campaign season, Trump’s “Finish the Wall” rally in El Paso went head-to-head against counterprogramming by former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, a former Democratic congressman and potential Trump rival in 2020, who argued that walls cause more problems than they solve.

When it comes to a 2020 presidential run, Beto O’Rourke is still playing hard to get — even as the buzz around him intensifies. The three-term Democratic congressman murmured “No decision. No decision on that,” when pressed by an attendee during a town hall Friday in his native El Paso who playfully demanded: “You’re going to run for president, right?”

Beto O’Rourke isn’t ruling out a potential 2020 presidential run.

Rep. Keith Ellison won Minnesota’s race for attorney general Tuesday, surviving an ex-girlfriend’s domestic abuse allegation that put the seat in play for Republicans for the first time in half a century. Ellison defeated Republican Doug Wardlow, who was a virtual unknown and would have been a heavy underdog but for the abuse claim against Ellison, which he strongly denied....

Documenting more than $67,000 in fees and expenses paid before the presidential election to former national security adviser Michael Flynn by Russian companies, a Democratic congressman Thursday asked the Trump administration to provide a comprehensive record of Flynn’s contacts with foreign governments and interests. Flynn accepted $33,750 from Russia’s government-run television system for appearing at a Moscow event in December...

House Democrats are demanding an investigation into recently resigned national security adviser Michael Flynn’s contact with a Russian diplomat about sanctions, and when President Donald Trump knew about it.

Democrats have kept Delaware solidly blue, retaining their hold on the governor’s office and the state’s lone U.S. House seat while giving Hillary Clinton three electoral votes.

Two of Congress’ youngest members joined millennials in Center City Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon to talk Uber, the student debt crisis and other issues affecting the country’s youngest generation of voters.

A veteran U.S. congressman’s son’s declaration that he wouldn’t be heading to prison turned out to be false.

The son of a veteran Philadelphia congressman called the government’s case flawed and speculative as he gave his opening statement at his federal bank and tax fraud trial on Friday.

The trial of a veteran Philadelphia congressman’s son accused of federal bank and tax fraud will soon get underway.

The scheduled fraud trial of a congressman’s son won’t start as scheduled next week after a federal appeals court agreed to consider his pretrial appeal.

A trial to determine whether U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson’s wife committed bigamy when she wed the congressman has been delayed because she required emergency surgery to remove breast implants.