The real federal budget deficit is on track to double this year, according to new projections that puncture hopes of a post-pandemic fiscal honeymoon and indicate rough fiscal seas ahead.

House Republican leaders canceled a vote to take up the annual defense spending bill on Wednesday because of infighting in the conference, highlighting the GOP disunity vexing Congress as the Sept. 30 shutdown deadline fast approaches.

Senate Republicans expressed support Wednesday for the House impeachment inquiry into President Biden after Rep. Jim Jordan and Rep. James Comer, debriefed their upper chamber colleagues at the weekly GOP lunch meeting.

Scores of senators privately huddled with Big Tech leaders Wednesday in Washington to jump-start the process of writing rules for artificial intelligence intended to keep people safe and foster American innovation.

Senate Republicans want Attorney General Merrick Garland to protect New Mexico gun owners from the Democratic governor's "chilling" executive order suspending open- and concealed-carry laws, calling it an "unconstitutional power grab."

A record-breaking number of political campaign ads are about to arrive in the media marketplace, touting the abilities of presidential candidates as well as those running in congressional and gubernatorial elections

Florida will recommend most citizens don't take the latest COVID-19 booster shot, saying Wednesday there is not enough data to show the potential benefits of the vaccine outweigh potential risks.

The chairman of a Senate investigations subcommittee issued a subpoena Wednesday for documents on Saudi Arabia's new golf partnership with the PGA Tour, saying the kingdom had to be more transparent about what he said was its $35 billion in investments in the United States.

Another controversy has sprung forth from the beleaguered Los Angeles City Council, and this one highlights just how California can spend billions on homelessness without making any progress.

Contrary to the Associated Press's inane assertion that the case implicating Joe Biden in his son's corruption is "without evidence," House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has decided to open an impeachment inquiry into the president thanks to a bevy of evidence, including multiple witnesses, emails, and WhatsApp messages indicating that the elder Biden benefited from Hunter Biden's legally questionable business dealings. But what makes the media even more apoplectic is that the California Republican has opened up his inquiry without a vote.