From a looming government shutdown and another major spending bill to voter ID laws, permitting reform and the fight over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Matt Delaney looks at what's at stake in Congress's final weeks of Republican control following the 2026 midterms.
On the morning of a Laguna Pueblo village's annual Feast Day, Ashley Sarracino knelt in her family home holding clothespins between her teeth. She straightened her niece's black cotton manta, a traditional one-shouldered dress, and tied a sash around her waist.
Alaska voters have elected a Democrat for governor for the first time since 1998, part of a national midterm elections wave that gave the party sweeping wins in state governments across the country.
Previously classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released Tuesday following an order by President Donald Trump shortly after he took office.
President Donald Trump fired two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, intensifying efforts to exert his administration's control over independent agencies across the government.
A Columbia University student arrested and threatened with deportation for his role in campus protests against Israel gave his first public statement Tuesday, saying that his detention is indicative of "anti-Palestinian racism" demonstrated by both the Trump and Biden administrations.
President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday empowering states and local governments to manage disaster relief in a move that would reduce the authority of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The Trump administration is facing pushback from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty over funding cuts to the news outlets made by the president last week.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the Constitution by attempting to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Sen. Thom Tillis and his staff have been the subject of a slew of threats since President Trump's inauguration, prompting his office to release some of the threatening messages they've received.
Franco Caraballo called his wife Friday night, crying and panicked. Hours earlier, the 26-year-old barber and dozens of other Venezuelan migrants held at a federal detention facility in Texas were dressed in white clothes, handcuffed and taken onto a plane. He had no idea where he was going.
A Justice Department attorney on Tuesday urged an appeals court to suspend judicial orders favoring two board members who were fired by President Donald Trump from their respective posts in the federal government.
