During his weekly news conference on Thursday, the Democratic leader said, “America is too expensive for working-class ...

Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pagean ...

The U.S. president-elect has referred vaguely to “national security purposes” in explaining his fixation with owning the ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), on the fourth anniversary of the Capitol riots, said the Jan. 6 protesters ...

Inside the Capitol, reminders of the violence are increasingly hard to find. Scars on the walls were repaired. Windows and ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) made a gassy gaffe while addressing the newly sworn-in 119th Congress on Friday. At one point, Jeffries promised his colleagues that the Democratic Party ...

Mike Johnson on Friday won re-election for the US House speaker in a slim Republican majority, after swaying two out of the three members of his party who had joined Democrats to block his bid. The ...

Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote that her editor prevented her from doing the "critical job" of holding "powerful people and institutions accountable." ...

Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot Friday, pushing past GOP hard-right ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson faced re-election during the 119th United Congress in Washington, DC, falling two votes short in ...

Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) attempt to carry over his leadership to the 119th Congress struggled to pass its first vote ...