Republican senators said Wednesday they want to move quickly on legislation to support pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong despite a threat of retaliation from China.

Electoral College members from the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and Arizona cast their official votes for Democrat Joe Biden on Monday, a moment some Republican lawmakers...

The Duchess of Sussex has been an outspoken advocate for federal paid family leave laws in the U.S.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who lost her legs flying helicopter combat missions in the Iraq war, is waging a new fight: pressing authorities to deliver on a three-decades-old promise to make transit...

House Republicans are broadening their scrutiny of the Biden administration’s immigration enforcement by demanding a sit-down with a senior official who oversees deportations.

JetBlue Airways Corp. is the first company to end a pause in PAC contributions following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and disclose giving to one of the Republican lawmakers objecting to the Electoral...

Heaps of sandstone and marble from the US Capitol East Front built in the early 19th century have sat in Washington D.C.’s Rock Creek Park for nearly 50 years, gathering dust and attracting a steady...

The Pentagon made $35 trillion in accounting adjustments last year alone -- a total that’s larger than the entire U.S. economy and underscores the Defense Department’s continuing difficulty in...

Speaker candidate Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told moderate New York holdouts he would support doubling the state-and-local tax deduction cap to $20,000, according to California Republican Mike Garcia.

Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial is almost certain to end in acquittal, yet it will deliver a public reckoning for his presidency and influence whether his populist supporters continue to...

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, said she was disturbed to hear Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell say there would be "total coordination" between the...

Video app TikTok Inc., in a letter to nine US senators who accused it of monitoring US citizens, said it is working to meet concerns over its data-sharing practices.

A surprise scuffle over pandemic relief is set to run up against a crucial federal funding deadline next week as Democrats side with President Donald Trump in his demand for $2,000 payments to most...

Republican leaders on Monday demanded that the Manhattan district attorney sit for an interview and provide documents as they began an investigation into his prosecution of Donald Trump over hush...

For more than a year, Attorney General William Barr has presided over some of the most consequential decisions of the Trump administration -- from prosecutorial moves in cases against the president’s...

Lobbyists, congressional aides, political fundraisers, and communications executives are working to oust D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen (D), who represents Capitol Hill, over his handling of local...

House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said his committee will send a report on its impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump to the Judiciary Committee soon after this week’s Thanksgiving...

Two of Washington’s most vocal partisan rivals found one thing they’re aligned on: anger at Facebook Inc.

Donald Trump’s lawyers will mount a double-barreled defense of the former president in his impeachment trial next week, arguing that the process was rushed and partisan, and that his rhetoric to...

After 16 terms that lifted him to a powerful House committee chairmanship, Rep. Eliot Engel is the latest Democrat from New York fighting for his political life as the progressive movement’s biggest...

Delivery by the U.S. Postal Service remains slow despite the intervention of federal judges and some voting advocates say ballots not in the mail now may not arrive in time to be counted and should...

Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren on Monday sent a letter to the Tesla Inc. board questioning whether Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is meeting his legal obligations to the company...

House committees investigating President Donald Trump heard Wednesday from Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale. But State Department counselor T. Ulrich Brechbuhl won’t be...

Heaps of sandstone and marble from the US Capitol East Front built in the early 19th century have sat in Washington D.C.’s Rock Creek Park for nearly 50 years, gathering dust and attracting a steady...

House prosecutors concluded their case for convicting Donald Trump in his Senate impeachment trial, saying they’ve proven that the former president is guilty of inciting an insurrection when a mob of...

Staffers are increasingly leveraging their power on Capitol Hill to advocate for their own benefit or even in pursuit of policy goals, representing a sea change in the relationship between lawmakers...

Representative Steve King, a nine-term Iowa Republican who had been rebuked by party leaders and stripped of committee assignments over his inflammatory statements about race and immigration, was...

Two of Washington’s most vocal partisan rivals found one thing they’re aligned on: anger at Facebook Inc.

House Democrats delivered the final votes needed to send President Joe Biden a slimmed-down version of his tax, climate and drug price agenda, overcoming a year of infighting and giving themselves a...

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on Friday asked the state Legislature to reconvene and pass legislation to allow every registered voter in the state to receive an absentee ballot for the April 7 presiden...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is signaling to fellow Republicans that the final vote on Donald Trump’s impeachment is matter of conscience and that senators who disputed the constitutional...

Measure would limit local cooperation with federal ICE Opponents fear political backlash or loss of funding (Updates map to correct status of South Carolina.) Tucson voters are considering whether to...

The House voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for withholding documents on now-canceled plans to add a citizenship...

Transportation Security Administration workers knew to temper their excitement when long-sought raises hit their paychecks in July. The money might not last long for everyone.

The U.S. joined the European Union and the U.K. in sanctioning Russian President Vladimir Putin and his foreign minister over the invasion of Ukraine, in a move that’s laden with symbolism but isn’t...

President-elect Joe Biden plans to visit Atlanta next week to campaign for the two Democratic Senate candidates in Jan. 5 runoffs that will determine control of the chamber.

Heaps of sandstone and marble from the US Capitol East Front built in the early 19th century have sat in Washington D.C.’s Rock Creek Park for nearly 50 years, gathering dust and attracting a steady...