Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, in an interview with House lawmakers, backed away from a previous claim that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had blackmailed people.

House Republicans spent weeks sparring internally over a bill to expand production and sales of the biofuel blend E15, pitting lawmakers from corn-producing states against conservatives concerned about expanding an expensive government mandate.

Supporters of a bill to aid Ukraine and sanction Russia reached a critical threshold on Wednesday that allows them to bypass Republican leadership and force a vote on the House floor in the coming weeks.

David Venturella, a former executive at a private prison operator, will serve as the acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Trump administration says, after the agency's current leader steps down at the end of the month.

Opposition figures in the Dominican Republic on Wednesday criticized an agreement signed with the United States to have the Caribbean nation receive third-country deportees, saying it lacks transparency and violates national sovereignty.

Senate Republicans blocked an attempt by a group of Democrats to roll back several policy changes made under President Donald Trump to the nation's consumer protection laws, ranging from how medical debts are collected to overdraft fees and consumer protections for members of the military.

The former mayor of a conservative Kansas town was taken into custody by immigration authorities Wednesday after acknowledging last year that he had voted in elections despite not being a U.S. citizen.

As President Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday, the families of two Americans imprisoned in China for more than a decade are urgently appealing to him to raise their cases directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their high-stakes summit.

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the State Department violated the First Amendment rights of an Italian woman when it designated her a dangerous foreign national for her pro-Palestinian advocacy efforts to the International Criminal Court.

Senate Republicans on Wednesday shot down more than a dozen Democratic-backed measures to undo the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Democrats forced votes on multiple resolutions targeting rules and regulatory changes made during President Trump’s second term, including CFPB’s policy on overdraft fees, credit report privacy and mortgage lending, among...