Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told lawmakers Wednesday that China, Russia, and Iran would be a problem for the US "for many years to come" as the three are working more closely together.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said a stabbing attack for one of his staffers over the weekend in Washington, DC "was life threatening, but he will recover."
The Senate voted Wednesday to repeal authorizations for the use of military force against Iraq, a significant moment as lawmakers aim to reassert authority in military intervention abroad.
After pressure from members of Congress, the federal judiciary revised its financial disclosure rules to require that federal judges -- including Supreme Court justices -- to be more specific when disclosing non-business travel.
First lady Dr. Jill Biden traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, Wednesday to attend a vigil honoring the lives lost in the mass shooting at The Covenant School.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday that lawmakers must see "all the facts" before any gun legislation can be put forward following the shooting in Nashville this week, the first public comments the California Republican has made to reporters since the incident.
The Manhattan grand jury hearing the hush money case involving former President Donald Trump is currently scheduled to break after April 5 and restart later in the month, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would rescind a second Biden administration policy, this time challenging an EPA rule that Republicans argue places a burden on the agriculture community by being too restrictive in defining what is a navigable waterway.
As Fox News faces legal peril over its coverage of Donald Trump's 2020 election lies, one of its most featured Republicans, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is trying to gut the free speech protections that may ultimately save the network from financial ruin.
Former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump has gone on the attack against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential rival for the Republican nomination in 2024 -- bashing the governor over everything from pandemic policy to Social Security.
A few weeks after allowing the controversial Willow oil drilling project in Alaska to go forward, the Biden administration is auctioning off more than 73 million acres of waters in the Gulf of Mexico to offshore oil and gas drilling.
President Joe Biden addressed the second Summit for Democracy on Wednesday from the White House, building on what he billed as his administration's "enduring commitment to boost democracy globally," where he sought to assure participants that democratic institutions work.
For all the frenzy over a possible indictment of Donald Trump in a New York hush money case, the ex-president's gravest legal issues, which are deepening by the day, may lie elsewhere.
Monday's deadly school shooting in Nashville has sparked a familiar cycle of condolences and calls to action among lawmakers in Washington, but both sides of the aisle have been quick to concede that the recent violence is probably not enough to sway a divided Congress to move substantive gun control efforts forward.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will deliver an address next month in Jerusalem, a trip that is certain to inject the likely Republican presidential contender into Israel's national tumult and its increasingly fraught relationship with the United States.
Vice President Kamala Harris emerged from the female slave dungeon at Cape Coast Castle visibly shaken. Inside the famous slave trading outpost's dungeon, Harris set a bouquet of flowers down and placed her hand on the centuries-old wall, connecting herself physically to the sorrow of the Africans it once imprisoned.
A Kentucky law that aims to increase oversight in public schools by making it easier for parents to file complaints about -- and, if desired, shield their children from -- "harmful" materials has gone into effect after Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear declined to veto a Republican-pushed bill.
