Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said Thursday that he will run for Senate Majority Leader in the next Congress, setting up a challenge to Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer after the party swept to power in the midterm elections.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser drew a laugh from the room when she was asked how it feels to manage a mercurial relationship with the White House and Congress - while, by the way, also trying to run a city of 700,000 people.
Police in New York City are investigating whether the department violated policy by sharing a report with federal immigration authorities that included internal records of a Palestinian woman's arrest at a protest.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California says five Mexican nationals were charged in a human smuggling incident that resulted in three deaths and one missing child.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has become a household name as the Trump administration is engaged in an intense legal campaign to keep him locked up in an El Salvador prison despite his mistaken deportation. But his case isn't the only one of its kind inching through the U.S. court system.
Some African theologians are pushing back as Catholic conservatives around the globe rally behind outspoken Cardinal Robert Sarah, casting the Guinea prelate as their ideal pope and a hero of the culture war.
Former vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz and two other Democratic governors are slated to testify before the House Oversight Committee next month on their states' implementation of sanctuary city policies.
President Trump on Tuesday named Andrew Giuliani, son of former New York Mayor and longtime Trump ally Rudy Giuliani, as head of the White House task force overseeing the 2026 World Cup.
President Trump's desire to reopen long-shuttered Alcatraz prison and cut bonuses for correctional staff became targets Tuesday for Democrats who, like their Republican colleagues, agreed the Bureau of Prisons suffers from crumbling facilities, overworked guards and sinking morale.
Ed Martin, nominated by President Trump to serve as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, is teetering on the edge of defeat in the Senate, where a key Republican said his all-out defense of the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters disqualifies him for the role.
A federal appeals court upheld the racketeering convictions of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and an ex-lobbyist on Tuesday in a $60 million bribery scheme that a prosecutor had described as likely the largest corruption scheme in state history.
