Large crowds of protesters have gathered in cities across the United for “No Kings” demonstrations against what they see a drift into authoritarianism under President Donald Trump.
Democrats are calling on President Donald Trump to get more involved with negotiations to end the government shutdown.
Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton has been charged in a federal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information.
Senate Democrats are rejecting for the 10th time a stopgap spending bill that would reopen the government.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing workers during the government shutdown, saying the human cost "cannot be tolerated.”.
The government shutdown is entering a third week, and Democrats say they're not intimidated by President Donald Trump’s efforts to fire thousands of federal workers or by his threats of more firings to come.
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is the primary way plaintiffs can challenge racially discriminatory election practices.
The Supreme Court appears ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that's helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half century.
President Donald Trump has awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously to Charlie Kirk on Tuesday.
House members' absence during the government shutdown is creating a political dilemma for Republican Speaker Mike Johnson and is testing his leadership.
Democrats are ramping up pressure on Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in the newest member of Congress.
Senators are laboring to find a way to reopen the government but find themselves struggling to overcome a fundamental lack of trust between the two parties.
President Donald Trump said Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago.
Experts say a food aid program that helps 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money unless the government shutdown ends within two weeks.
President Donald Trump cracked the door slightly to negotiations with Democrats on the health care subsidies they’ve made central to the shutdown fight, then abruptly closed it Monday, leaving the two sides once again at a seemingly intractable impasse.
Washington lawmakers remain at a standstill over reopening the government, showing few signs of progress as President Donald Trump says layoffs are “taking place right now.”.
Halfway through Donald Trump’s inaugural White House meeting with congressional leadership, the red "Trump 2028" hats appeared on the president’s desk.
A new poll conducted just prior to the current government shutdown showed most Americans wanted Congress to extend tax credits that could expire at the end of the year.
President Donald Trump is now openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign.
Americans' routine interactions with the federal government this week are increasingly being met with partisan messaging.
Republican leaders have presented a united stance as they try to keep the government open and berate Democrats for demanding health care policy changes in exchange for their votes.
A week after her decisive win in an Arizona special election for the U.S. House, Democrat Adelita Grijalva has yet to take office.
Senate Democrats kept their promise to reject any Republican spending bill that didn’t extend or restore health care benefits, choosing instead to force a government shutdown.
Senate Democrats have voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government, putting it on a path to a shutdown after midnight Wednesday.
Democratic congressional leaders have left a White House meeting without a deal with President Donald Trump and Republicans to avoid a government shutdown.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Leader John Thune are digging in ahead of this week’s deadline to keep the government open, showing little evidence of budging even as both sides have agreed to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday.
President Donald Trump plans to meet with the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Monday, one day before the deadline to fund the federal government or face a shutdown.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are “marching the country” into a government shutdown.
The Supreme Court is extending an order that allows President Donald Trump's administration to keep frozen nearly $5 billion in foreign aid, handing him another victory in a dispute over presidential power.
Just back from a congressional delegation trip to Ukraine, a senior Republican says he’s more optimistic that the country can succeed in the war with Russia.
Washington's hottest new club has everything: Cabinet secretaries, a new stone patio, meals from the White House kitchen and even a playlist curated by President Donald Trump.
Democratic leaders have accused President Donald Trump of throwing a tantrum and chickening out after he canceled a meeting with them ahead of a potential federal government shutdown.
A possible federal shutdown is looming at month's end, and the Democratic leaders of Congress are demanding a meeting with President Donald Trump to negotiate.
Members of Congress are taking steps to tighten their own security as the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has deeply shaken lawmakers who were already concerned for their safety.
The Senate rejected competing measures to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government shutdown on that date.
The House declined late Wednesday to punish one of its own over commentary in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Republican leaders in the House and Senate are rejecting Democratic demands for health care subsidies in a bill to avoid a government shutdown.
In a story published Sept. 16, 2025, about the House voting on bills on the Washington criminal justice system, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a bill would replace the members of the Judicial Nomination Commission with presidential appointees.
From the moment conservative icon Charlie Kirk was felled by an assassin’s bullet, partisans have fought over who’s to blame for his death.
There’s bipartisan support in Congress for extending tax credits that have made health insurance more affordable for millions of people since the COVID-19 pandemic.
President Donald Trump is swiftly implementing his vision of the military as an all-powerful tool for his policy goals.
The Trump administration must release billions of dollars in foreign aid approved by Congress, including money that President Donald Trump said last week he won't spend.
As Congress returns for a busy fall stretch, President Donald Trump is reaching into the affairs of the legislative branch, chiseling away at the separation of powers.
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse have gathered on Capitol Hill to demand the release of the sex trafficking investigation into the late financier.
The House Oversight Committee has publicly posted the files it has received from the Justice Department on the sex trafficking investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
President Donald Trump announced that U.S. Space Command will be relocated from Colorado to Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary home.
As Congress returns to Washington this fall after a monthlong August recess, they will have to find a way to work with Democrats or around them as a government shutdown looms.
President Donald Trump has told House Speaker Mike Johnson he won't be spending $4.9 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid, effectively cutting the budget without going through the legislative branch.
In a letter sent to Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, President Donald Trump said he wouldn't be spending $4.9 billion in congressionally approved foreign aid — effectively cutting the budget without going through the legislative branch.
Louisiana has abandoned its defense of a political map that elected two Black members of Congress and instead called on the Supreme Court to reject any consideration of race in redistricting in a case that could bring major changes to the Voting Rights Act.
The Trump administration said Friday it will not defend a decades-old grant program for heavily Hispanic universities that is being challenged in court, declaring that the government believes the funding is unconstitutional.
Lawmakers have left Washington for the annual August recess, but a few weeks of relative quiet at the U.S. Capitol can’t mask the partisan tensions that are brewing on government funding and President Donald Trump’s nominees.
The Justice Department’s No. 2 official has met with Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
A House subcommittee has voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
A subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight has voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cut bill will add $3.4 trillion to federal deficits through 2034.
When House Speaker Mike Johnson gifted to President Donald Trump the gavel used to enact the Republicans' tax breaks and spending bill, it was a memorable moment at the White House.
Under intense pressure from President Donald Trump’s own supporters, his administration now is asking a federal court to unseal secret documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s case.
House Republicans are trying to formulate a response to the Trump administration’s handling of records in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.
The Republican-led Congress is testing the popularity of Department of Government Efficiency spending cuts.
The House has approved President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid.
The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a prosecutor in the federal cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein.
Vice President JD Vance made the Trump administration’s first big pitch to sell the public on President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget-and-policy package in the swing political turf of northeastern Pennsylvania.
House Republicans are struggling with cryptocurrency legislation that they had expected to pass during what they dubbed “crypto week.”.
Senate Republicans have advanced President Donald Trump’s request to cancel some $9 billion in previously approved spending.
The co-sponsors of new bipartisan U.S. sanctions package targeting Russia have briefed European allies and Ukraine on the legislation.
Democrats are using a Louisiana town hall to preview one of their main strategies for attempting to retake the U.S. House next year, ripping into the health care changes in the just-passed Republican tax and spending bill.
Greg LeMond, who is one of the most decorated cyclists in American history as a three-time Tour de France winner, has been honored with the Congressional Gold Medal.
U.S. President Donald Trump held a private dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as families of hostages held in Gaza push for any ceasefire agreement to include the release of all remaining hostages.
The House has passed the massive tax and spending cuts package that President Donald Trump calls “beautiful,” getting it to his desk a day before the July 4 deadline that he had set.
House Republicans have lifted President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final passage.
