Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed renaming the Trump Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as being among his top priorities, breaking his silence weeks after the institution's board added President Trump's name to the historic building.

For activists looking to hinder ICE arrests, motor vehicles have become the tool of choice.

The House started a January congressional sprint to avoid another government shutdown on Thursday as it passed a three-bill spending package.

Vice President J. D. Vance on Thursday rejected media reports that Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was shut out of planning for the raid on Nicolas Maduro because of her past opposition to military intervention in Venezuela.

Austin Peay State University in Tennessee will reinstate and pay a $500,000 settlement to a professor it had fired over a social media post he made after conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination.

Oil company executives are scheduled to meet with President Trump at the White House on Friday to discuss plans for stabilizing and boosting Venezuela's oil production after the ouster of strongman Nicholas Maduro.

The Trump administration is creating a new assistant attorney general position to investigate alleged fraud across states such as the level of fraud seen in Minnesota's social services.

Vice President J.D. Vance on Thursday offered a scathing assessment of the media's coverage of the fatal shooting in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officer, accusing outlets of outright lying about the incident.

Maryland Democratic Rep. Steny H. Hoyer announced his retirement Thursday, preparing to leave the House after 44 years as the current longest-serving Democrat in the lower chamber.