President-elect Donald Trump said he would use the power of the pen at the start of his presidency to have the federal government recognize only biological sex.
President-elect Donald Trump has once again suggested he wants to revert the name of North America's tallest mountain - Alaska's Denali - to Mount McKinley, wading into a sensitive and decades-old conflict about what the peak should be called.
The House Ways and Means Committee chairman is warning his colleagues that there will be dire consequences for farmers if Congress allows the Trump tax cuts to expire.
House Speaker Mike Johnson will have to work the phones over the holidays in a bid to avoid losing the gavel in January after some hard-right lawmakers denounced his handling of recent spending negotiations.
Anti-Trump federal government lawyers are being begged to "ride it out" in the new administration, with activists encouraging them to act as a bulwark against the incoming president's policies and actions.
Victims' families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions shared a range of emotions on Monday, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences.
Former President Clinton was admitted to a Washington hospital Monday with a fever, his spokesperson said on social media. “President Clinton was admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center this afternoon for testing and observation after developing a fever,” Angel Ureña said on the social platform X around 5 p.m. EST. “He remains in good spirits...
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) dropped his eleventh-hour lawsuit seeking to block the release of his House Ethics Committee report since the committee distributed it publicly. The report, released Monday, found “substantial evidence” that Gaetz paid a 17-year-old high school student for sex when he was 35, used illicit drugs like cocaine and ecstasy and...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved a pilot project that would allow a company to build a small road made out of a radioactive fertilizer byproduct — drawing environmentalist ire. The Biden administration's approval allows Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC to construct a road made of phosphogypsum on its property in New Wales, Fla. Phosphogypsum contains...