Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner’s Republican challengers are seizing on the Virginia Democrat’s on-air exchange over his opposition to the SAVE Act after a TV anchor corrected him on his own state’s election laws. Warner argued the SAVE Act — part of conservatives’ election security push — could disenfranchise married women and others, while pointing to Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s opposition as evidence of bipartisan...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration on Friday released the contract behind the state’s $6.2 million diaper program after questions about the deal’s noncompetitive designation and a reported delay in making the agreement public. The agreement with nonprofit Baby2Baby will provide families of newborns with 400 free diapers at participating California hospitals. Newsom said in May that the deal went through a “competitive bidding process.” However, the state’s contract...

President Donald Trump is opening a new chapter in his playbook by invoking a tariff authority that no previous president has ever used, a move that could reshape future trade wars. Trump used a little-known provision of the 1930 Tariff Act to impose 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian goods. Known as Section 338, the nearly century-old law gives the president broad authority to impose duties on...