Politics

Progressives in the House were apprehensive when Joe Biden stepped into office — the President was an unabashedly moderate Democrat and ready…

Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos will not run for reelection in 2022 after a decade in office and disappointing Democrats in her 2020 performance as the…

Republicans have seized on a recent claim that former Secretary of State John Kerry told Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif about Israeli strikes…

Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is suing Interior Department officials including Secretary Deb Haaland for declining to grant a permit for a…

President Joe Biden’s major public — and prime time — push this week for his sweeping $4 trillion economic agenda was only one…

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is wading into the culture wars Friday morning. In a letter obtained by CNN, the Republican leader asks…

In his first major policy speech, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin laid out a vision of warfare starkly different from how “the last of the old…

Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Matt Gaetz of Florida have a lot in common. As each lawmaker increasingly finds themselves at…

One signature now stands between Florida voters and a slew of new restrictions on casting ballots in the Sunshine State. After days of contentious…

More than a dozen Army officers and non-commissioned soldiers face disciplinary actions related to the response to Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén‘s…

At the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix, workers line up in their cars to check in with uniformed security. As each car files into the…

A former CIA analyst turned Democratic congresswoman is urging the country’s top national security officials to increase US intelligence…

The Biden administration is reviewing whether to extend humanitarian protections to Haitians and other foreign nationals as part of the Temporary…

House Conference Chairwoman Rep. Liz Cheney is once again facing the ire of her colleagues and GOP voters, laying bare the ongoing and internal…

The Defense Department is canceling all contracts for wall construction on the US-Mexico border that used funds originally intended for military…

President Joe Biden on Friday pitched his infrastructure proposal’s investments in American railroads from a venue that no doubt felt very…

The personnel files of some Washington Metropolitan Police Department officers were obtained by hackers in a ransomware attack earlier this month,…

Colorado state Democrats have introduced three new gun bills in response to the Boulder shooting last month that would expand background check…

Tennessee is a step away from requiring some businesses in the state to post signs indicating that they allow transgender and other non-binary people…

The campaign for House Republican candidate Susan Wright said Friday that it has reached out to federal law enforcement authorities after learning of…

The Biden administration has completed its months-long North Korea policy review, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Friday, telling…

Rudy Giuliani was warned by the FBI in late 2019 that he was the target of a Russian influence operation intended to damage now-President Joe Biden…

The Biden administration will restrict travel from India starting on Tuesday on the advice of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a…

Amid a flurry of changes to voting rules and regulations across the country, the American public is divided over whether the bigger problem with…

President Joe Biden said Friday that K-12 schools “should probably all be open” in the fall for in-person learning after more than a year…

Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos will not run for reelection in 2022 after a decade in office and disappointing Democrats in her 2020 performance as the…

The Biden administration has completed its months-long North Korea policy review, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Friday. “I…

As the humanitarian crisis continues in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, the US Agency for International Development is warning that the area…

The White House will soon announce a new milestone: 100 million adults in the US are now fully vaccinated, according to a White House official.…

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell this week sent a letter, obtained by CNN, to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to abandon curriculum in…

Some Major news at the White House: Major Biden has made his return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue after training following two biting incidents, but he…

The number of unaccompanied migrant children held in jail-like conditions by US Customs and Border Protection dropped nearly 84% in the span of a…

The top US general met his South Korean and Japanese counterparts in Hawaii Thursday, emphasizing America’s commitment to “long-term…

Republican Idaho state Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger resigned Thursday afternoon, hours after the state’s House Ethics Committee had unanimously…

President Joe Biden has invited Sen. Shelly Moore Capito back to the White House to discuss infrastructure, the President told reporters Thursday, a…

When Mike Pence underwent heart surgery earlier this month, he had alerted only a few family members and aides beforehand. Several onetime Pence…

At least five federal civilian agencies appear to have been breached in the latest hack to hit the US government, a discovery that follows emergency…

The Biden administration has been consulting “nonstop” with the Indian government on their priorities as the country grapples with a…

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden met with former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter at the Carters’…

Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn tried Wednesday to portray President Joe Biden’s new $1.8 trillion American Families Plan proposal…

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill and advocates who want to overhaul the nation’s policing laws — including members of George Floyd’s…

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill and advocates who want to overhaul the nation’s policing laws — including members of George Floyd’s…

With a majority of adult Americans now at least partially vaccinated against coronavirus, roughly a quarter of adults say they will not try to get…

Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw on Thursday participated in his first official House event since undergoing emergency eye surgery earlier this month.…

The next 100 days of President Joe Biden’s term will test his administration in a critical new way: Convincing those who are not yet vaccinated…

The top US military intelligence official said during a congressional hearing on Thursday that the Russian military is an “existential…

Get ready for a Big Apple summer. Mayor Bill de Blasio is targeting July 1 for New York City’s “full reopening,” telling…

By Monday, numerous media outlets had debunked the viral false claim that President Joe Biden has proposed to restrict how much red meat Americans…

President Joe Biden spent the majority of his first speech to Congress on Wednesday discussing his economic and infrastructure plans for the nation,…

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill and advocates who want to overhaul the nation’s policing laws held a series of meetings Thursday searching for…

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, joined by an unusual alignment of conservative and liberal justices, ruled in favor of a ‘nonpermanent…

President Joe Biden hit the road on Thursday, traveling to Georgia to promote his sweeping economic proposals the day after making the case for the…

Americans of all political stripes agree that attempts at bipartisanship in Washington are a good thing, but expectations that such efforts are…

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott delivered the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s address to Congress Wednesday night. Read his remarks…