U.S. Congress

Fellow Democratic candidates are calling on Swalwell to drop out of the race for governor as major organizations are reviewing their endorsements of him following a report in the San Francisco Chronicle alleging he assaulted a former staffer. Swalwell denied the allegations.

In the run-up to the June primary, Democrats are still divided on which candidate would give them their best shot to flip a closely watched House seat.

The 14th Amendment and some Congressmen's racist views on immigrants shaped prior Supreme Court reasoning that people born here are citizens.

The 12-term congressman said Friday that he will not seek reelection in his new district, which was redrawn after Prop. 50 to favor Democrats.

A congressional investigation estimates broker breaches have cost consumers $20 billion in identity theft. Major brokers now promise to make it easier to opt out of their databases.

She's leaving Congress after 39 years, but Nancy Pelosi proved she can still command a room full of California Democrats like no one else.

Sen. Mike McGuire accused Democratic Party Chair Rusty Hicks of trying to block his endorsement despite the backing of 74% of delegates.

The California Democratic Party is betting that a tried-and-true playbook and standard-bearer candidates offer their best chance to take back the U.S. House in November’s midterms rather than fresh faces and more populist policy planks. The country’s largest state Democratic party endorsed a slate of aging congressional incumbents at its convention in San Francisco after […]

In a pivotal election year that will serve as a referendum on the second Trump administration, California Democrats face pressure from activists on the left to abandon “radical civility” and instead back candidates who will push back hard against the GOP.

Kiley has yet to declare which district he'll run in — or whether he'll run at all — after Prop. 50 turned his current seat solidly Democratic.