Confronted with questions he should know how to answer, the House Republican leader has proven to be surprisingly ignorant about current events.

President Donald Trump is predicting Democrats will capitulate to Republicans, as his administration faces a major test this ...

President Donald Trump said Republicans are more likely to lose next year’s midterm elections if they don’t eliminate the ...

The Senate will vote for a 14th time to reopen the government as the shutdown matches the record for longest in U.S. history.

Donald Trump has been accused of using an autopen to sign pardons after he claimed he didn't know who cryptocurrency tycoon Changpeng Zhao is, despite pardoning him ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson was confronted with an inconvenient truth from an unlikely source: Fox News. Johnson was being ...

With Congress now tied for its longest-ever shutdown, a small group of fed-up lawmakers in Washington are furiously trying to ...

Speaking to reporters, Thune laid out the next steps toward a potential end to the shutdown. The House-passed continuing ...

Packed fields for Chicago-area congressional races also are shaping up, though ballot challenges will cull the list over the ...

“Inequality is a policy choice,” Rebecca Riddell, Oxfam America’s senior policy lead for economic justice, told The Guardian.

Trump urged Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) last week to eliminate the filibuster — a procedure that allows senators to delay or block votes on legislation by extending debate. Johnson ...

President Donald Trump’s frustration over Democrats’ determination to keep the government shut down led to the president’s ...