A Texas Republican lawmaker is pressing the Department of Homeland Security to evaluate potential terrorist threats to the United States from Syria given the evolving political dynamics in the country after the fall of the regime of longtime leader Bashar Assad in late 2024.
Attorney General Pam Bondi took charge at the Justice Department this week, personally removing photographs of the old team: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Merrick Garland.
House Republicans' budget blueprint will likely survive its first hurdle after GOP leaders agreed to a change driven by debt hawks that will incentivize Republicans to shoot for deeper spending cuts.
Republican Ohio Sen. Kristina Roegner, a veteran state lawmaker with fiscal oversight experience and a background in finance, announced Thursday that she is running for state treasurer.
Three Republican holdouts in the Georgia Senate got on board with Gov. Brian Kemp's top-priority legislation to limit lawsuits, showing the state's Republican leader remains at the height of his political power well into his second term.
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Brooke Rollins, a longtime policy aide to President Trump with a farm-town background, to lead the Agriculture Department.
President Trump's pick to root out anti-conservative bias and politicized investigations at the FBI moved another step closer on Thursday to securing the top job at America's premier federal law enforcement agency.
U.S. Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota said Thursday that she won't seek reelection, dealing a blow to her fellow Democrats' hopes of retaking the Senate in 2026.