President Donald Trump is looming large in several races across the South tonight. And one race in particular will test another key midterms player: the crypto industry.

Bipartisan lobbying firm Vogel Group has scooped up Brian Nieves, former chief of staff to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Nonprofits, research institutions and scientists are going to bat with the Office of Management and Budget over a proposed rule that would overhaul the federal government’s process for awarding research grants.

Former White House Policy Adviser Kamran Daravi is teaming up with bipartisan lobbying firm Thorn Run Partners to help its clients navigate Washington under the second Trump administration.

OpenAI published new research this afternoon claiming China was likely behind two online influence operations intended to sway U.S. perceptions of artificial intelligence technology and reshape the debate in Washington around the infrastructure needed to support it.

An obscure provision in the National Defense Authorization Act is sparking a fierce lobbying battle over the future of U.S.-Israeli military cooperation — and reigniting tensions over U.S. support for Israel.

Former Illinois Republican lawmaker Aaron Schock has had a rough decade since resigning from Congress in 2015 amid an ethics investigation into alleged spending abuses. But when President Donald Trump returned to power, he saw an opportunity to return to the political scene — and potentially strike gold in Venezuela.

Social media is swamped with posts promoting prediction market platforms as money-making opportunities and helpful forecasting tools. But many of the creators promoting one of the industry’s top players, Polymarket, have also been receiving payments from the company’s chief marketing officer without disclosing them.

The Trump administration has been unrelenting in its efforts to target liberal nonprofits, and one group has been instrumental in supplying the GOP with the research to do so: the Capital Research Center.

The robotics lobby is bracing for the upcoming markups of the annual National Defense Authorization Act as the industry looks for opportunities to score policy wins in the robotics race with China.

President Donald Trump quietly signed an executive order on artificial intelligence Tuesday. One tech lobbyist says he anticipates major AI labs will be “quietly relieved” it didn’t go further.

With tech companies, state lawmakers and AI skeptics battling over the future of data centers, labor unions are joining the fight to let Silicon Valley keep building.