The Senate majority leader race is on. Or is it? Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is answering the calls of his Democratic colleagues who want new leadership when they take back control of Congress next year and is offering himself as an alternative to Charles E. Schumer.
At about 10:04 p.m. on Nov. 3, the Associated Press called the Texas Senate race for James Talarico. Roughly 16 minutes later, Ken Paxton conceded. The Republican attorney general had spent the better part of a year, in one of the most expensive Senate contests in American history, trying to hold a seat in a […]
Voters across the country rebuked President Donald Trump and the Republican Party in the Nov. 3 midterm elections, producing a powerful blue wave in the first major electoral test since his sweeping victory in 2024. The results were expected in battleground states, but not in Texas, a longtime bastion of conservatism that has maintained a […]
President Trump said Crimea will remain part of Russia, a stipulation that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made clear he's not on board with.
The federal government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students after many filed court challenges around the U.S., a government lawyer said Friday.
The day before he died, in his final public address, Pope Francis expressed an Easter Sunday message of unity and an appeal for the marginalized and migrants. "All of us," he proclaimed, "are children of God!"
FBI agents have arrested a local judge in Wisconsin whom the bureau says tried to help an illegal immigrant duck out of her courtroom before he could be nabbed by deportation officers.
Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who lied about his life story and defrauded donors, was sentenced Friday to more than seven years in prison, sobbing as he heard his punishment.
The Trump administration is taking heat from gun rights advocates after the Justice Department argued in court that machine guns fall outside the scope of firearms guaranteed by the Second Amendment.
President Donald Trump's handling of immigration remains a point of strength as he takes wide-ranging actions to ramp up deportations and target people in the U.S. illegally, according to a new poll.
President Donald Trump's administration is launching an investigation into UC Berkeley's foreign funding, a week after it launched one into Harvard's records.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed how her purse was stolen at a Washington, D.C., restaurant, describing it as "professionally done."
Five Jewish Democratic senators, including the minority leader, slammed President Donald Trump's strategy of going after certain colleges over instances of antisemitism.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis accused state House leadership of having a "swamp-centric agenda," while state House Speaker Daniel Perez said DeSantis has "become the swamp."
