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.
President Trump has given buyouts or tried to terminate employment of more than 11,000 people at the IRS, with a disproportionate share of those coming from the agency's ranks of auditors, an inspector general said Monday.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries criticized the Trump administration during a Monday press conference addressing the recent chaos in domestic air travel.
The White House is hitting back at Democratic lawmakers who introduced amendments to foil Republican plans to advance Trump's Gulf of America name change.
AFL, founded by Trump adviser Stephen Miller prior to his role in the second administration, has filed a number of lawsuits seeking to enforce Trump's agenda.
President Trump signed an executive order Monday banning all federal funding towards “dangerous" gain-of-function research in China, Iran and other countries, and blocking all federal funding for foreign research that could cause another pandemic.
Two-term Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who was the GOP's top Senate recruit in battleground Georgia in next year's midterm elections, announced that he is passing on launching a campaign
Rep. Jasmine Crockett urged the graduating class at a historically Black college to claim their own seat at the table, while reminding students of the bystanders who rushed to defend a Black man in Montgomery in 2023 when he was attacked by a group of White boaters.
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is now a registered Republican after leaving the Democratic Party and calling it the "party of paid protests, purple hair, and pronouns."
New York is leading 20 states in suing the Trump administration over its HHS cuts, described as one the most "sweeping and unlawful assault on public health" in U.S. history.
Cinco de Mayo festivities are taking place across the U.S. with music, tacos, tequila and colorful displays of Mexican culture - even if they're not always the most authentic.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told investors Monday that President Trump's economic agenda is "more than the sum of its parts," pointing to deregulation and tax cuts as companions to the White House tariff plan that is making Wall Street anxious.
