Democrat Gabe Amo defeated Republican Gerry Leonard to win Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District seat Tuesday, becoming the state's first Black candidate elected to Congress.

The Biden administration on Tuesday urged an appeals court to allow sweeping new asylum restrictions to stay in place, warning that halting them would be "highly disruptive" at the border.

Republican senators emerged from a closed-door meeting Tuesday night still searching for an answer to end Sen. Tommy Tuberville's hold over hundreds of military promotions in protest of a Pentagon abortion policy.

The House took up a measure on Tuesday to block federal funding for a mandate that will soon require new car technology to measure driver behavior and shut down vehicles if drunk driving or other impairment is detected.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley are out to prove in the GOP presidential debate Wednesday that they are the strongest alternative to former President Donald Trump in the nomination race.

Lawmakers have just over a week to figure out how to keep the government open but have not reached consensus on how to do it.

At least three FBI whistleblowers told lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday that high-level senior officials at the bureau are revoking security clearances of personnel based on whether they have religious or politically conservative beliefs.

An influential coalition of liberal and conservative lawmakers on Tuesday said they will try to block the renewal of the government's chief spying tool unless the intelligence agencies agree to new rules that would require them to get a warrant before they peer into Americans' communications.

"The third Republican presidential-candidate debate in Miami probably won't draw as many eyeballs as the last, and the stage will be less crowded. But what it lacks in quantity of speakers and listeners it may make up for in drama and conflict," New York magazine reported.

Ten days before a potential government shutdown, Congress is no closer to resolving the standoff and is even complicating the issue with Republican demands for border security changes as a condition for further support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia.