The race to replace Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is laying bare the power struggle between pro-Trump and anti-Trump Republicans in the Senate. GOP lawmakers aligned closely with the former president are urging any candidate wanting to succeed McConnell to embrace Trump. Other Republican senators want McConnell’s successor to keep a healthy distance from...

Mexico's safest state is betting big on nearshoring, hoping to attract foreign investors who are weary of the rising criminality and government corruption in other parts of the country. Yucatán, a state that occupies about a third of its namesake peninsula, has historically been low-crime in part because it is geographically isolated from the rest...

Harvard University is staring down a Monday deadline after the House Education Committee issued unprecedented subpoenas against school officials in its investigation into antisemitism on the elite college’s campus, sparking concerns of deteriorating academic freedom. The GOP-controlled panel and Harvard have battled for months over documents lawmakers requested that dive into how students have been...

Senate Republicans are coming out in favor of holding an impeachment trial for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the border crisis.

House Freedom Caucus members and their allies are frustrated that GOP leaders passed another extension of the previous fiscal year's government funding.

The costs of supporting Ukraine in its entirely defensive war against Russia are escalating. Kyiv needs more financial resources, munitions, and diplomatic support as it resists Vladimir Putin’s aggression. But the challenges are real. U.S. munition stockpiles are running low, and some weapons systems must be prioritized in reserve for a possible war with China. […]

Hunter Biden told lawmakers his close business associate paid for his brand new Porsche, not an oligarch from Kazakhstan who wired the money to buy it before dining with then-Vice President Joe Biden.

Congress once again passed a short-term funding patch to prevent a partial government shutdown, punting the ongoing spending fight for a few more days.