Senate Votes to Take Up Measure to Force Trump to End Iran War
With four Republican backers, Democrats won a vote to advance a resolution that would force the president to end hostilities or win authoriz...
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With four Republican backers, Democrats won a vote to advance a resolution that would force the president to end hostilities or win authoriz...
President Trump showed off the construction on his ballroom project, providing a deeper look at the things that matter to him.
As part of the Justice Department’s compensation fund deal, officials vowed not to pursue any matters, including those involving President T...
The transportation secretary’s reality-show-like series is meant to commemorate the nation’s 250th birthday but has faced questions about it...
David Schutzenhofer, a Trump Organization employee, reached out to one of the vendors the government later hired for the iconic site near th...
Officials wrote a memo outlining ways to challenge President Trump’s suit against the Internal Revenue Service. The administration is instea...
After President Trump’s threats to seize the island, Gov. Jeff Landry’s offers of MAGA hats and chocolate chip cookies fall flat.
In a Republican primary for a House seat in Kentucky, Rep. Thomas Massie is facing off against Ed Gallrein, who is backed by the president.
Is there anything Democrats can do to break free of a deeply polarized political system in which parties are constantly winning and then los...
A single donor’s contribution of $2.75 million could help propel Representative Chip Roy in his clash with a self-funded state senator, Maye...
Traveling across the country, justices defend the role of the court even as strained relations among its members emerge in writing and remar...
Brian Morrissey, the department’s general counsel, stepped down hours after the Trump administration announced the $1.8 billion fund.
The Trump administration argues that an “emergency refugee situation” in South Africa merits bringing more Afrikaners to America, at a cost...
Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, is running for a second full term against the Nassau County executive, Bruce Blakeman, a Republican who has c...
The order is in effect for 30 days and does not apply to American citizens or U.S. service members.
The campaign appearance was an extraordinary breach of military decorum, even for Mr. Hegseth, who has stretched the boundaries of partisan...
The Trump administration is creating a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people it says were wronged by the federal government, a group that c...
On the eve of their primary, Republicans have grown nervous about their prospects in November against Mr. Ossoff, regarded as the most vulne...
Louisiana wants the Food and Drug Administration to curtail access to the medication. Doing so could cost Republicans at the polls.
President Trump’s open willingness to hold up a $14 billion Taiwan arms package is a win for Beijing. Now China could be weighing how to kee...
These G.O.P. crusaders might be the perfect people to fight sexual misconduct on Capitol Hill.
New research sheds light on how mediocre employees help would-be authoritarians maintain power.
Gov. Jared Polis’s decision to commute the sentence of Tina Peters came after months of tense discussions, including one with President Trum...
The defeat showed the president’s dominance in his party, even as a broader range of views about Mr. Trump could be a major Republican liabi...
Defeating a sclerotic rump of a party is no achievement. Instead, one-party rule enables corruption. It fosters stagnation.
The decline of civic education hit bottom about a decade ago and is at last on the rebound. This fact brings me hope.
The president has never pretended to be an ordinary American, but a recent “truth bomb” has opened him to criticism that he doesn’t grasp th...
Just months before another election that may hinge on the economy, the war in Iran has sent gas and other goods soaring.
The defeat of Senator Bill Cassidy showed the president’s dominance in his party at a moment when a broader range of views about Mr. Trump c...
In a new memoir, the former senator, governor and cabinet member says President Trump committed an impeachable offense on Jan. 6 and calls o...
Senator Bill Cassidy’s defeat means no more than two of them will be left in Congress next year.
Senator Bill Cassidy, a two-term Republican who voted to convict President Trump in his 2021 impeachment trial, could not muster enough vote...
Votes cast for the House candidates on Saturday’s primary ballot won’t count after state officials moved the election to November to provide...
A long-shot emergency request to restore a voting map was the latest salvo in an all-out legal war over control of the House.
Documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, taking up more than 3,400 volumes and weighing over eight tons, have been printed and bound for displa...
As a senator, Marco Rubio even hinted at the need for regime change in China. Now he talks about cooperation.
Senator Bill Cassidy, who has drawn President Trump’s ire, is fighting for political survival.
Nearly 10 years after Congress instituted measures to make it easier for women to lodge harassment complaints, lawmakers and aides say the b...
State officials had asked the justices to step in to allow the state to use a congressional map in the midterms that was drawn by Democrats...
The language had been removed from wall text in the National Portrait Gallery, but it’s back as the museum unveiled changes to its exhibitio...
Critics denounced the highly unusual plan, which has yet to be finalized or approved, as a vast political slush fund financed by taxpayers.
Republican state leaders tried to expel Democratic lawmakers during their fight over redistricting last year. The court said it was not nece...
The president has shifted the foundations of American policy toward China, throwing aside the adversarial approach of recent years.
Nancy Pelosi and Jerrold Nadler are retiring, sparking fierce fights in San Francisco and Manhattan to succeed them. Whoever wins their seat...
The engagement between the president and the Chinese leader may have tested a decades-old U.S. assurance to Taiwan not to consult Beijing on...
The loyalist, Dan Bishop, put his fealty to the president on display when he pressed the F.B.I. to chase investigative leads it had already...
Presidents are expected to tell the public basic health information, but members of the House and Senate often stay silent about medical con...
The five dozen endorsements mostly feature those seeking state or local office who have previously supported the Vermont senator.
Authoritarians go after data. The president has already started.
Mr. Trump’s trip, the first U.S. presidential visit to China in almost a decade, was closely watched for signs of whether a trade truce betw...