The Trump administration will not just embrace and uphold the core American value of religious freedom but will actively expand protections for people of all faiths, while rolling back federal censorship efforts "used to prevent Americans from speaking their conscience and speaking their mind," Vice President J.D. Vance said Wednesday.

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers want to start whittling away at the nation's debt, and they say more transparency in federal spending is the way to do it.

After a slow start, the U.S. Senate is beginning to confirm President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees at a faster pace. Before Trump’s first term, it was common for the Senate to confirm the new president’s Cabinet selections quickly. The Senate confirmed all 14 of former President George W. Bush’s main Cabinet picks by Feb. 1, […]

For many mothers, the COVID-19 pandemic was the moment they took a second look at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Before 2020, he was known to many mainstream suburban mothers as a kooky coconspirator of actress Jenny McCarthy, back when anti-vaccine views were on the societal fringes.  Then the pandemic happened. And suddenly, the idea that […]

After a flurry of activity — the president’s tariff threats and showdowns with Mexico and Canada, his expressions of interest in Greenland, the policy changes obtained by Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s trips to Panama and El Salvador, the release of arrested Americans in Venezuela — it seemed clear that the focus of Donald Trump’s […]

Tensions flared during a House GOP conference meeting on Wednesday as the group struggles to unite around a plan to pass President Trump's legislative agenda, delaying Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) ambitious timeline for considering the sprawling measure. Those frustrations — which have been percolating throughout the conference over the past week — rose to the surface...

It can clean up many of the excesses that culminated in the Biden era and realign U.S. strategy in the right direction. 

It feels like everyone is sick right now. And while that is a slight exaggeration, the real situation isn't too sunny either.

The House Education and the Workforce Committee's first hearing of the year saw Democrats take on the “elephant in the room” as President Trump and Republicans seek to move toward abolishing the Education Department, though GOP lawmakers largely declined to address the issue. “The State of American Education” hearing Wednesday hit on a number of...

The White House is not ruling out the possibility of President Trump attending this spring's White House Correspondents' Association dinner. "I have the president's invitation on my desk. I have the invitation for myself on my desk as well. Haven't talked to the president about it," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters when...