An effort to push through new authority to detect and interdict drones was blocked in the Senate Wednesday after Sen. Rand Paul said it's too soon to rush a solution that could end up trampling on Americans' rights.

Florida's top prosecutor announced a felony attempted murder charge against Ryan Routh, the man accused of attempting to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump on his Palm Beach golf course in September.

President-elect Donald Trump may have won Time magazine's Person of the Year, but his rhetoric surrounding Haitians in Ohio won PolitiFact's Lie of the Year.

The House Ethics Committee secretly voted to release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz and will soon make public the findings of its investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor, illicit drug use and misuse of campaign funds.

Criminals will be the first targets for President Trump's "mass" deportations, but Homeland Security will eventually get to rank-and-file illegal immigrants, according to incoming border czar Tom Homan.

Two new, loud voices have joined the discourse surrounding House Speaker Mike Johnson's short-term funding patch as he deals with backlash from House Republicans.

More than a quarter of likely voters say the brazen slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was an "understandable" reaction to the high cost of health care.

Senate and House conservatives want Republicans to pass a border security funding bill early next year that is not only fully offset by spending cuts, but also achieves additional savings for deficit reduction.

Who’d a-thunk it? The Assad regime collapses in Syria after 54 years. Vladimir Putin’s hold on power seems undermined by imperial overstretch, and the mullahs of Iran have been unable to defend their skies and their leaders’ hotel rooms from Israeli attack. Leaders of the two largest nations of continental Europe have been repudiated. Germany’s […]

NCAA President Charlie Baker apparently thinks that female athletes are more of a burden to college sports than they are equal members who deserve respect from the top governing body. Baker faced a Senate hearing where he had hoped to talk about restrictions on gambling on college athletes, though anyone could have predicted that the […]