In the last few weeks, I’ve conducted oversight visits to the Customs and Border Protection holding facilities at both Los Angeles and San Francisco International Airports. The law requires the Department of Homeland Security to let me in to see the conditions of the facility and treatment of detainees, and ask...

The cost of almost everything continues to rise. Here’s why stuff is so expensive.

Trump has tried to interfere in the midterm elections over and over again. It is up to all of us to stand up for our democracy and push back. I break down how you can do your part and move our country forward.

AI experts are delivering a clear message: the risks of quickly evolving frontier AI capabilities pose serious threats to our safety and the future of our society. We must heed their call — and quickly. AI agents have colluded, escaped their “sandboxes,” hacked other companies, meddled with government portals — and...

321 days. That’s how long the USS Abraham Lincoln and its thousands of servicemembers have been away from their families and their home port of San Diego. And today, for the first time in 10 months, they return home. They hug loved ones. They sleep out of harm’s way. In the time these men and women were deployed as...

Senate Republicans refuse to acknowledge President Trump’s conspiracies. I called them out today during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Jack Smith, the former special counsel who led investigations into the events of January 6, 2021, and the case involving classified documents being stored at President...

Did you see a Trump campaign ad while watching football this weekend? Well, that campaign ad was funded by your tax dollars. Here’s why that’s a crime.

Today marks 7 months of President Trump’s illegal war with Iran. 7 months of chaos and rising costs. But while the President now promises that the war will continue at least until after the November election, myself and other Senate Democrats are continuing to push the Senate to take action, assert its...

Last week, in a blatant attack on the freedom of the press, Trump banned three media organizations from the White House. After 10 years of attacking our First Amendment, how did we get to this moment?

So about that United Nations speech...

American-made movies have been one of our greatest cultural exports. But nowadays, far too many films and filmmakers are fleeing the U.S. for more cost-effective opportunities abroad. That has to change. I’m pushing for a tax credit for film and TV that would move production back to America, along with the hundreds...

Kash Patel’s latest appearance on Capitol Hill got... well... weird. Watch the must-see moments from the hearing.

The CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic came together this past week to warn how AI could destroy humanity within a decade. Why Congress needs to move with urgency to regulate AI and put in place essential safeguards.⁩

In today’s oversight hearing of the FBI, Director Kash Patel seemed to get frustrated when pressed about how he runs his department. I questioned him about his weaponization of the FBI, the firing of countless employees, and his overall failure to properly run the bureau. Watch the full exchange here.

There’s been a lot of news and warnings this week about AI. And I think it’s fair to ask whether Congress is asleep at the wheel as we hurtle towards AGI and the unknown. AI experts and industry executives are delivering a clear message — the risks of quickly evolving frontier AI pose serious threats to our safety...

After the devastating Eaton Fire, Nikki High, owner of Octavia’s Bookshelf in Pasadena, California, stepped up for her community and made her bookstore a hub for supplies and so much more. Here’s my conversation with her.

Flock cameras and other license plate readers have popped up seemingly everywhere around the country. What are the risks? Who’s benefiting from these cameras? I break it down.

Trump’s illegal war with Iran has lasted nearly half a year. What is the status of the war now? I break down why it’s lasted this long and what it has cost the American people.