House Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday the Trump administration cannot legally tap into a $5 billion Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program contingency fund to pay for food benefits during the government shutdown.

New Jersey GOP gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli has received unexpected endorsements from elected Democratic officials in the state.

President Trump slammed Democratic gubernatorial nominees Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia over their stances on energy and boys in girls' sports.

President Trump said Monday that he received an MRI scan during his trip earlier this month to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

A Presbyterian pastor from Anchorage has entered the race for Alaska's lone U.S. House seat in hopes of unseating freshman Republican Rep. Nick Begich.

The country's largest union representing federal workers on Monday called on Senate Democrats to end the government shutdown immediately by passing a short-term spending measure.

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun announced Monday that he is calling the Republican-led state Legislature into a special session to consider changes to the state's congressional maps.

Former President Joe Biden called these "dark days" as he urged Americans to stay optimistic and not to check out in response to what he says are attacks on free speech and tests on the limits of executive power by President Donald Trump.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the U.S. does not see the Israeli strike over the weekend targeting a military official of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement as a violation of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.