Peter Overby

With control of the House, Democrats now can fulfill promises to investigate wrongdoing in the Trump administration, and overhaul political money and ethics laws.

After meeting with Trump last January, FBI officials agreed to rebuild on their current site, a tract near the Trump hotel, precluding any potential private sector competition.

More than a dozen states have ballot measures aimed at putting stricter rules on candidates and officeholders. One activist says even Watergate didn't ignite such interest in enacting ethics rules.

If Democrats win control of the House, they'll have the power to investigate alleged misconduct of the Trump administration. They have a long list of misdeeds they want to look into.

Democrats plan to launch oversight investigations of the Trump administration — a congressional duty that House Republicans resisted.

Emails among federal officials indicate that President Trump vetoed a redevelopment plan for the site of the FBI headquarters. The project could have featured a hotel to compete with Trump's hotel, a block away.

The president has been personally involved with the future of the FBI's Pennsylvania Avenue headquarters building, and Democrats say it is an abuse of power intended to help his hotel up the street.

Three House and Senate committees have "the unqualified right" to request taxpayers' returns from the IRS. There's no provision exempting the president.

One party celebrates its fundraising, while the other starts culling out the weakest candidates.

Democrats challenging House Republicans are starting to announce jaw-dropping totals for their third-quarter fundraising.

After Kavanaugh called attacks on him "a calculated and orchestrated political hit," the advertising war escalated.

About 200 Democrats contend Trump's Washington, D.C., hotel is violating the Constitution's Foreign Emoluments Clause. Now a federal judge will let them make the argument in court.

In the 67 Republican-held House districts that Democrats have the best chance of winning this fall, male Democratic candidates raised an average of about $500,000 more than women candidates.

Groups such as the NRA and Chamber of Commerce must disclose who paid for campaign ads they run this fall. A new report says such groups pumped about $600 million into elections between 2010 and 2016.

Well-made videos can go viral and boost a candidate's popularity, and now they can bring in the cash for a viable campaign.

If the president ever promoted his D.C. hotel to foreign dignitaries, the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia want to know about it.

The agency administrator's protective services detail expanded from six to 19 agents, but it never made a threat analysis to size up his security needs.

For much of his career John McCain fought to control unregulated money in politics and helped author the McCain-Feingold reform act.

"The people whom I serve believe that the means by which I came to office corrupt me. That shames me," the senator said in 1999

When President Trump said the money didn't come from his campaign, he was making the wrong defense. The problem is that it didn't come from the campaign.