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A House Republican pushing the Trump administration's government efficiency efforts has called for dismantling and defunding the nation's public broadcast system following a contentious public hearing on Wednesday.
U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff is seeking to rally Democrats desperate for effective action now against President Donald Trump’s administration.
The nation’s cybersecurity agency has played a critical role in helping states shore up the defenses of their voting systems, but its election mission appears uncertain amid sustained criticism from Republicans and key figures in the Trump administration.
The first bill signed by President Donald Trump is named after a slain Georgia nursing student whose name became a rallying cry during Trump’s White House campaign.
For more than four centuries, the body of water stretching from Florida through Texas and into Mexico has been known as the Gulf of Mexico.
The fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has a new focus as lawmakers brace for the prospect that Donald Trump may soon pardon many of the more than 1,500 people charged with crimes for their actions related to the riot.
Pop superstar Taylor Swift tops a list of 2024's most notable quotations compiled by Yale University, with her declaration that she's a “childless cat lady" while endorsing Kamala Harris for president.
With less than two weeks before Election Day, a resurgence of misinformation and conspiracy theories about voting is forcing state and local election officials to spend their time debunking rumors and explaining how elections are run.
President Joe Biden blasted his predecessor for spreading an “onslaught of lies” about how the federal government is handling the damage from Hurricane Helene as another hurricane, Milton, was on the verge of making landfall in Florida.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Monday is set to hold a hearing with Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, over the origins of COVID-19, federal COVID-19 records and the NIH grant processes.
Republicans in Congress are embracing Donald Trump’s strategy of blaming the U.S. justice system after his historic guilty verdict.
Right-wing commentators and supporters of former President Donald Trump have flooded social media with images of upside-down American flags in protest of his historic guilty verdict.
Georgia Republicans have elected to the Republican National Committee a conservative activist who helped organize the pro-Donald Trump rally on Jan. 6, 2021.
Amy Kremer is a conservative activist who helped organize the Jan. 6, 2021 rally that led to a mob storming the U.S. Capitol.
Leaving Washington behind, prominent far-right House Republicans who have pushed this Congress into chaos showed up at Donald Trump’s hush money trial.
Democrats joined a majority of Republicans on Wednesday to save Speaker Mike Johnson from an attempt by GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to remove him from the job.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has a survived an attempt by far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to remove him from office.
Hardline Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has tried and failed to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson and far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have met for a second day at the Capitol as they try to figure out an off-ramp to her threat for a vote on the motion to remove him from office.
Without wielding the gavel or holding a formal job laid out in the Constitution, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries might very well be the most powerful person in Congress right now.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she'll call a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson.
House Democrats will vote to save Speaker Mike Johnson’s job should some Republican lawmakers seek to remove him from the position, avoiding a repeat of when eight Republicans joined with Democrats to oust his predecessor, former Rep. Kevin McCarthy.
Alex Padilla is taking practically every opportunity to put his stamp on the Democratic Party’s approach to immigration.
President Joe Biden says he's immediately rushing badly needed weaponry to Ukraine now that he's signed into law a $95 billion war aid measure that also includes assistance for Israel, Taiwan and other allies.
Some Democrats are entertaining the prospect of helping House Speaker Mike Johnson save his job should Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia force a vote seeking his ouster.
House congressional leaders are toiling on a delicate, bipartisan push towards weekend votes to approve a $95 billion package of foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as well as several other national security policies.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has pushed back against mounting Republican anger over his proposed U.S. aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other allies.
A galaxy of legal woes is rapidly closing in on former President Donald Trump as Marjorie Taylor Greene continues efforts to oust the House Speaker and President Joe Biden remains noticeably silent on Iran.
Donald Trump has given his support to embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson during a visit to the Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
With his job on the line, House Speaker Mike Johnson is dashing to Florida to meet with Donald Trump this week.
Hard-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is escalating her criticism of House Speaker Mike Johnson and threatening his ouster.
As the presidential election draws nearer, the spread of bogus information online is getting a huge boost from social media accounts that have been created anonymously.
Donald Trump is campaigning on promises of mass deportations and of pardons for those convicted in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, and his ideas are being met with little pushback by a new era of Republicans in Congress.
Voters in the northwest Oklahoma city of Enid will decide whether to recall a city councilor with ties to white supremacist groups.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has sat on a funding package that would send desperately needed ammunition and weaponry to Ukraine for over a month.
Barely six months into the job, House Speaker Mike Johnson is at risk of the same conservative revolt that took down his predecessor.
Hard-line Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia wore a T-shirt to Thursday night’s State of the Union address that carried a seemingly simple message: Say Her Name.
President Joe Biden is facing disappointment and anger from some allies for calling the suspect in the killing of a Georgia nursing student an “illegal” during his State of the Union speech.
With an unscripted clash between President Joe Biden and a Georgia congresswoman at Thursday night’s State of the Union speech, the killing of a Georgia nursing student was further cemented as a political rallying point in the 2024 race for president.
Republicans had demanded but never expected President Joe Biden to say the name Laken Riley during his State of the Union address.
The Supreme Court has rejected appeals from three Republican U.S. House members who challenged fines for not wearing face coverings on the House floor in 2021.
The U.S. House has voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration's handling of the U.
House Republicans are marching ahead with impeachment plans targeting Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as “derelict in his duty” over handling of the U.S.-Mexico border.
A home owned by the judge overseeing the federal election subversion case against former president Donald Trump was targeted by a fake emergency call Sunday night, the latest in a spate of similar false swatting reports at the homes of public officials.
Bomb threats and false reports of shootings at the homes of public officials, state capitols and courthouses have surged in recent weeks, including some connected to court cases against former president Donald Trump.
After two U.S. representatives were targeted by “swatting” attempts on Christmas Day, Sen. Rick Scott of Florida announced Thursday that his home had also been “swatted.”
The House has voted to push off a Republican effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Ken Buck has gained national prominence as a Republican congressman fed up with Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
The House has rejected an effort to censure Democratic Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, scrapping a Republican attempt to condemn the only Palestinian-American in Congress over her recent rhetoric around the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
Liberal groups are trying to end Donald Trump's attempt to return to the White House by arguing he's ineligible to be president after trying to overturn the 2020 election.
Georgia Gov_ Brian Kemp is dismissing efforts by his fellow Republicans to punish Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for prosecuting Donald Trump as “political theater.”.
Former President Donald Trump's arraignment in federal court has highlighted a popular strategy among Republicans: likening their opponents to “Marxists” and “communists.”.
Moments after Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he hoarded classified documents and then conspired to obstruct an investigation about it, the Republicans in Congress had his back.
The Biden administration has unveiled what it calls the largest community solar effort in U.S. history, enough to power 140,000 homes and businesses in three states.
President Joe Biden’s signature on a measure nullifying the recent overhaul of the District of Columbia criminal code marked the end of one bruising public fight between Congress and local lawmakers.
Former Twitter executives conceded to Congress that they made a mistake by blocking a story about Hunter Biden, the president’s son, from the social media platform in the run-up to the 2020 election.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy is reiterating that he will block Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell of California from serving on the House committee that oversees national intelligence.
Dozens of military veterans have hand-delivered letters to top Republicans in the U.S. House, calling on them to publicly condemn political violence as the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol approaches.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s dramatic visit to Washington is a moment for the White House to demonstrate to Russia’s Vladimir Putin that the United States will sustain its commitment to the war for “as long as it takes.”.
Elon Musk's Twitter has reinstated the personal account of far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was banned in January for violating the platform's COVID misinformation policies.
Colorado Democrat Adam Frisch is trying to downplay his own party affiliation as he tries to lure Republican voters who he thinks are weary of Rep_ Lauren Boebert's brand of what he calls “angertainment.”.
