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.
President Trump was using his commander-in-chief powers when he had the military fly Venezuelan gang suspects to El Salvador, government lawyers said Monday, arguing that a judge has no right to interfere and stop the planes.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday the District is pressing Congress to reverse a $1 billion mid-year cut to the city's budget after it was signed into law as part of a federal stopgap bill this weekend.
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries may reside just blocks away from one another – but their recent spending clash shows two Democratic caucuses operating on opposite planets.
Bryan Bedford, the CEO of Indiana-based regional airline Republic Airways, has been named as President Donald Trump's nominee for Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
During the hearing, the Trump administration repeatedly declined to provide information to Judge Boasberg about how many flights carrying migrants took off on Saturday, citing national security protections.
President Donald Trump on Monday said he will order the public release of around 80,000 pages on the assassination President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday.
Debates over President Donald Trump's hardline migration policies are focused on the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, to some a ruthless transnational criminal organization and to others the pretext for an overhyped anti-migrant narrative.
Federal immigration agents violated the rights of 22 people, including a U.S. citizen, in immigration enforcement arrests during the first weeks of President Donald Trump's second term, Chicago activists and attorneys alleged Monday.
A doctor from Lebanon who arrived at the Boston airport was deported over the weekend without explanation, despite having a U.S. visa and a job teaching at Brown University.
Homeland Security officers found photos of Hezbollah "militants" on the phone of a Lebanese doctor, causing them to deny her entry and to ultimately have her deported from the U.S., the government told a federal judge on Monday.
The State Department says South Africa's ambassador to the United States, who was declared "persona non grata" last week, has until Friday to leave the country.
