Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is poised to oversee the first major legislative package in the new Congress, said Monday that border security will be the "first" priority, topping even tax cuts and spending reforms.
Congressional negotiators have released a compromise defense bill that extends a big pay raise to junior troops and prohibits the use of military health insurance for "gender dysphoria" treatments for transgender minors.
A coalition of federal and state prosecutors, judges, religious leaders and law enforcement officials on Monday urged President Biden to commute the sentences of dozens of federal death-row inmates before President-elect Donald Trump, who strongly supports capital punishment, takes over in January.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley delivered a blistering denunciation of FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday, saying he's lost control of the country's preeminent law enforcement agency and lost the confidence of key members of Congress.
The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a case involving the affirmative action policy at three high-profile Boston schools, but several justices warned that they will have to deal with the issue at some point.
President-elect Donald Trump wants to make the U.S. the "crypto capital of the world" through sensible regulation of the decentralized form of currency, Eric Trump said Monday.
Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee have asked the Supreme Court to take up a case over how much party committee's can contribute in coordination with federal candidates.