When House and Senate lawmakers return to the Capitol on Monday, they'll have just a few days to renew a critical intelligence-gathering law that has sharply divided both parties amid mounting concerns over privacy rights.

President Donald Trump's plans for a new triumphal arch in the capital, unveiled on Friday, include a towering winged figure with a Lady Liberty-like torch and crown, flanked by two eagles and guarded by four lions - all gilded.

Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are calling on first lady Melania Trump to testify before the panel the day after she denied knowing anything about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.

The federal government has seen a surge in money through the first six months of the fiscal year, helping to offset a small rise in spending and cutting the size of the budget deficit by 11%.

Democratic states are so poorly run that they are imposing steeper wealth taxes, and even exit taxes, to gouge residents for money to save their failing budgets. Multiple Democratic states are looking for more money to throw into their furnace of ever-increasing spending. Washington is imposing a “millionaire tax,” a dubiously legal proposal that follows […]