Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen was in intensive care on Monday to treat multiple injuries suffered after he was thrown off a horse the day before. Doctors said he has a "very good prognosis."

House Democratic campaign committee chair Rep. Suzan DelBene says her party can win back the majority by holding Trump and Republicans "accountable" to the voters.

RNC chair Michael Whatley says President-elect Trump will play a "significant" campaign trail role supporting GOP candidates in the 2026 midterms, even though he won't be on the ballot.

President-elect Donald Trump’s tough talk about Greenland and the Panama Canal shows that he’s most comfortable playing offense, even if nothing much comes of it.

President Joe Biden on Monday vetoed a once-bipartisan effort to add 66 federal district judgeships, saying "hurried action" by the House left important questions unanswered about the life-tenured positions.

A powerful government panel on Monday failed to reach consensus on the possible national security risks of a nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase U.S. Steel, leaving a decision to President Joe Biden, a longtime opponent of the deal.

President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law a defense bill that authorizes significant pay raises for junior enlisted service members, aims to counter China's growing power and boosts overall military spending to $895 billion despite his objections to language stripping coverage of transgender medical treatments for children in military families.

Republican fiscal hawks have every justification to be concerned about the federal government’s finances. Both the federal budget deficit and total federal debt held by the public are at all-time highs. For the first time ever, the federal government is spending more on interest payments to service its debt than it spends on national security. […]

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Monday urged Elon Musk to stay out of politics and focus on his successful businesses. “Stick to business. You‘ve done great. You‘ve made a couple hundred billion dollars since the election,” Scaramucci said in an interview on CNN’s “The Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer, describing his advice...