The Republican-controlled House on Wednesday passed a bill that would immediately end the COVID-19 national emergency first declared in March 2020, brushing aside the Biden administration’s announcement that the declaration would expire in May. The joint resolution cleared the House in a party-line 229-197 vote. The measure, which spans just over one page, would terminate...

A bipartisan pair of lawmakers introduced legislation on Wednesday designed to keep firearms from the hands of violent people — a wildly popular idea that has virtually no chance of moving in the GOP-controlled House. Sponsored by Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), the bill would require background checks for essentially all gun...

The family of Tyre Nichols has finally laid their son to rest. Nichols’s funeral opened with a viewing of his black casket, covered with white flowers, at the front of the pulpit. Four musicians playing African drums dressed in all white moved slowly up the aisle of the church pews as they — and those...

As the Federal Reserve has embarked on a series of interest rate hikes that threaten to throw the economy into a recession, it is time we rethink how we fight inflation. Monetary policy, the actions taken by the central banks, has been the dominant tool for economic stabilization in the United States for the past...

Tom Girardi, a major Democratic donor who hosted a fundraiser for Joe Biden, was indicted by federal grand juries for allegedly embezzling millions of dollars from legal clients.

The FBI is investigating Rep. George Santos, R-Fla., over allegations that he raised $3,000 for a disabled veteran's dog and kept the money for himself.

Twelve mayors representing communities along New Jersey's coastline wrote to federal and state officials this week, demanding a moratorium on offshore wind development.

A tornado relief fund started by Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear's administration "erroneously" sent out an unknown amount of money to people unaffected by the Dec. 2021 tornados.

Nearly every House Democrat on Wednesday voted against a bill aimed at forcing federal workers to return to their offices now that the COVID pandemic is winding down.

Stormy Daniels hush money payment fixer Michael Cohen told CNN that he recently turned over cell phones and other records related to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s probe.