The Senate passed a $95 billion emergency defense spending bill in an early morning vote Tuesday after 22 Republicans joined the majority of Senate Democrats to pass the package. The 70-29 vote took place shortly after 5 a.m., following an all-night filibuster by conservatives who objected to the bill. It comes nearly four months after...

The Senate Republicans’ campaign arm is formally endorsing Kari Lake in the Arizona Senate race, a source familiar confirmed to The Hill. The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s (NRSC) endorsement, which was first reported by Politico, offers a critical boost for the former local news anchor as she works to consolidate Republican support both in...

A small plane landed safely near the Buffalo, New York, airport on Monday evening after a door fell off the aircraft while it was in the air, a transportation authority spokesperson confirmed.

Consumer prices rose 3.1 percent over the past year and 0.3 percent in January, according to data released Tuesday by the Labor Department. The annual inflation rate fell from 3.4 percent in December while monthly price growth accelerated slightly from a 0.2-percent rate last month. Economists expected the annual inflation rate to fall to 2.9...

GOP senators said they spoke with former President Trump this week about his pitch to provide aid to Ukraine as a loan with strings attached, just ahead of the upper chamber passing a bipartisan $95 billion foreign aid package. Republicans say they reached out to Trump about the idea and spoke to him on a...

Members of the House Freedom Caucus and a few of its allies are in a cage match with the rest of Congress and the White House over excessive federal spending.

The top four candidates hoping to succeed the late Dianne Feinstein and represent the Golden State in the United States Senate squared off Monday in a debate hosted and moderated by Inside California Politics. Democrat Reps. Adam Schiff, Katie Porter and Barbara Lee tried to stand out from one another and pitch themselves to voters...

An elderly man has died from Alaskapox, the first known fatality from the recently discovered virus, state health officials said.

Is Biden starting to lose it? Or is he already too old for the job? These are fair questions. For Joe Biden, who is 81. But also for Donald Trump, who is 77 — and seems to be showing signs of his own diminished mental capacity.

A federal judge in Chicago has sentenced a former chief of staff to longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to two and a half years in prison for lying under oath.