Government shutdown looms as Congress returns after monthlong August recess

Appeals court blocks Trump administration from ending legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans

Trump blocks $4.9B in foreign aid Congress OK'd, using maneuver last seen nearly 50 years ago

After Trump and Congress spending cuts, public media stations wait on money for emergency alerts

Trump vows to change how elections are run. The US Constitution doesn't give him that power

Trump's moves toward taking over Washington are unprecedented. Here's what the law says

Homeland Security removes age limits for ICE recruits to boost hiring for Trump deportations

Milei vetoes pension and disability spending increases, citing fiscal deficit pledge

The House is looking into the Epstein investigation. Here's what could happen next

US automakers say Trump’s 15% tariff deal with Japan puts them at a disadvantage

US organ donation system faces scrutiny and changes after reports of disturbing near-misses

Speaker Johnson refuses to allow Epstein vote as House set to recess early

Trump administration seeks release of Epstein grand jury records but not Justice Department files

The House is poised to OK Trump's $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid

The House is expected to approve President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion in already appropriated funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid.

Senate Republicans are putting the popularity of Department of Government Efficiency spending cuts to the test this week.

The new tax law signed by President Donald Trump creates a federal tax deduction for interest on auto loans.

The State Department is firing over 1,300 employees in line with a dramatic reorganization plan initiated by the Trump administration earlier this year.

The co-sponsors of new bipartisan U.S. sanctions package targeting Russia have briefed European allies and Ukraine on the legislation.

Senate Republicans are rejecting an attempt to reverse a provision from their new tax law that changes the taxation of gambling winnings.

Former labor union leader and independent candidate Dan Osborn has announced his bid for a Nebraska U.S. Senate seat, challenging Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts.

Elon Musk said he’s carrying out his threat to form a new political party after his fissure with President Donald Trump, announcing on social media that he would form the America Party in response to the president’s sweeping tax cuts law.

Donald Trump has made tax cuts a central part of his political legacy.

The Environmental Protection Agency says the sprawling tax and policy bill should give it a victory in its fight to freeze billions in funding for a green bank for climate friendly projects.

President Donald Trump has signed his signature bill of tax and spending cuts at the White House Fourth of July picnic.

States and rural health advocacy groups are sounding the alarm that Congress’ slashing of Medicaid will devastate already financially fragile rural hospitals.

Congressional passage of a massive bill cuts billions of dollars in spending across many areas including clean energy.

President Donald Trump has signed his tax and spending bill into law after Republicans muscled it through Congress.

House Republicans have propelled President Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final congressional passage.

U.S. House Reps. Mario Díaz-Balart and Debby Wasserman Schultz are both worried about the future of a bill that President Donald Trump has described as “big” and “beautiful.”

Republicans in Congress have advanced a bill cutting clean energy tax credits, and the industry is bracing for the impacts.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from dismantling a U.S. federal agency that invests in African small businesses.

Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote President Donald Trump needed for the Senate to pass his “big, beautiful” bill 51-50 on Tuesday and send it back to the House with some changes.

The Trump administration is withholding more than $6 billion in federal grants for after-school and summer programs, English language instruction, adult literacy and more.

The fate of Argentina’s state-run oil company has been thrown into doubt as a U.S. judge ordered the cash-strapped country to give up its 51% controlling stake in YPF.

Republicans aimed to meet President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July deadline on the 940-page “big, beautiful” bill.

The Senate’s long day of voting has churned into a long night as Republican leaders grasp for ways to shore up support for President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts.

Senate Republicans voted in a dramatic Saturday session, clearing a key procedural step as they race to pass President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and bolstered deportation funds by his July Fourth deadline.

Democratic efforts in the Senate to prevent President Donald Trump from further escalating with Iran have fallen short.

The Supreme Court has upheld the fee added to phone bills to provide billions of dollars a year in subsidized phone and internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas.

College sports leaders seeking antitrust and other protections from Congress have a potential bargaining chip: School assurances that they will provide funding for their increasingly imperiled Olympic programs, by far the biggest pipeline of talent for Team USA.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has signed a controversial labor reform into law, delivering a significant increase in worker protections.

Senators are emerging from a classified briefing with sharply diverging assessments of President Donald Trump’s bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites.

President Donald Trump's decision to take military action in Iran has reignited debate over the War Powers Act.

The Federal Reserve will continue to wait and see how the economy evolves before deciding whether to reduce its key interest rate, Chair Jerome Powell says, a stance directly at odds with President Donald Trump’s calls for immediate cuts.

President Donald Trump’s administration has postponed classified briefings for Senate and House members on Tuesday as lawmakers are looking for more answers about Trump’s directed strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend and his announcement on Monday that the two countries had reached a ceasefire agreement.

The Supreme Court has revived long-running lawsuits against Palestinian authorities from Americans killed or wounded in terrorism attacks in the Middle East.

Some segments of the U.S. restaurant industry don’t support President Donald Trump’s proposal to eliminate federal taxes on tips.

A proposal by Senate Republicans would adjust the pace at which some crucial home energy efficiency and electric vehicle tax credits are phased out in timelines different from what House Republicans proposed in the multitrillion-dollar tax bill they passed last month.

The Senate has passed legislation that would regulate a form of cryptocurrency known as stablecoins.

Threats to members of Congress are on the rise, security officials told senators at an emergency briefing in the wake of the killing of a Minnesota state lawmaker in her home over the weekend.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California has been forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed by officers as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and elsewhere.

Two of the police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Trump supporters have filed a lawsuit to compel Congress to follow one of its own laws and install a memorial to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.

The latest effort by Congress to regulate college sports is generating predictable partisan outrage.

Former congressman Billy Long of Missouri has been confirmed to lead the Internal Revenue Service, an agency he once sought to abolish.

Top Democratic strategist David Plouffe is joining Coinbase as an adviser as the cryptocurrency exchange broadens its political reach.

The House has voted to cut about $9.4 billion in spending as President Donald Trump’s administration looks to follow through on work done by the Department of Government Efficiency when it was overseen by Elon Musk.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a measure Thursday that blocks California’s first-in-the-nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom looked straight into the camera and offered a stark moment for his Democratic Party.

President Donald Trump is looking to cancel $9.4 billion in spending already approved by Congress.

U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver has been indicted on federal charges alleging she “forcibly impeded" immigration officers during a skirmish outside a New Jersey detention center.

Now that the NCAA has taken care of its business, its president wants Congress to deliver.

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon set for November, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut its green rhetoric, revealing mounting political pressure on the federal environmental agency and widening divisions within President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s cabinet.

If President Donald Trump's budget proposal wins final congressional approval, funding will be slashed for tribal colleges and universities.

Call it the 911 presidency.

Members of Congress and a federal judge are questioning the Trump administration’s plan to shut down Job Corps centers nationwide.

A small government office with some 275 employees has found itself caught in the political crossfire as Congress debates President Donald Trump’s “one big beautiful bill.”.

President Donald Trump’s big bill is likely to unleash trillions in tax cuts and slash spending, but also spike deficits by $2.4 trillion over the decade and leave some 10.9 million more people without health insurance.

U.S. President Donald Trump increased tariffs on foreign-made steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% starting after midnight Wednesday with an exception for the United Kingdom.

The White House has officially asked Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in already approved spending.

El Salvador’s arrest of an anticorruption lawyer from a well-known human rights organization last month is the latest example of how the special powers given to President Nayib Bukele to battle gangs are being applied to a host of unrelated alleged crimes.

President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January determined to overturn decades of American policy and build a tariff wall around a U.S. economy that used to be pretty much wide open to foreign products.

President Donald Trump’s big plans on trade, deportations and more are running up against the laws of political gravity and the separation of powers.

A little-known federal court threw a giant monkey wrench into a foundational part of President Donald Trump’s economic agenda by striking down most of the sweeping tariffs he has imposed since taking office.

The problems that disrupted flights at New Jersey’s largest airport this spring could be repeated anywhere across the country, so Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is trying to sell Congress on his plan to overhaul the nation’s air traffic control system that will cost “tens of billions.”.

The group Apache Stronghold is vowing to carry on the fight against a massive copper mining project on land the Apaches hold sacred, after a Supreme Court decision that is expected to let the mine proceed.

The Trump administration has granted Syria sweeping exemptions from sanctions.

The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out.

The Senate has voted to block California’s first-in-the nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s firing of two Democratic members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.

A federal judge in New Jersey ordered Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver released on her own recognizance during the congresswoman’s first court appearance on assault charges stemming from immigration officials’ attempt to arrest Newark’s mayor at a detention facility.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the constitutional provision that allows people to legally challenge their detention by the government is actually a tool the Trump administration can use in its broader crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Federal prosecutors allege Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey pushed and grabbed officers while attempting to block the arrest of the Newark mayor outside an immigration detention facility.

The Senate has voted to move forward with legislation to regulate a form of cryptocurrency called stablecoins, two weeks after Democrats blocked the measure.

A federal judge is blocking the Trump administration from moving forward with its dismantling of the U.S. Institute of Peace.

House Republicans surprised tech industry watchers and outraged many state governments when they added a clause to Republicans’ signature “big, beautiful” tax bill that bans states and localities from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade.

Negotiations continued in Congress as Republicans aimed to pass President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill.”

The head of the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement agency has recognized the right of members of Congress to visit detention facilities —even unannounced.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state is staring down an $12 billion budget deficit.

President Donald Trump’s administration recently announced a plan that needs billions to upgrade air traffic control systems nationwide.

A proposal by Republicans in Congress would allow President Donald Trump's administration to remove the tax-exempt status of nonprofits that it says support terrorism.

Tax breaks tallying more than $5 trillion.

President Donald Trump's onetime defense attorney has been appointed acting librarian of Congress.

Top White House aide Stephen Miller says the Trump administration is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally.

The Trump administration has proposed a multibillion-dollar overhaul of the U.S. air traffic control system in the wake of recent deadly plane crashes and technical failures that have put a spotlight on the outdated network.

President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation designating Thursday as a day for the United States to celebrate victory during World War II.

Congress has voted to kill a rule requiring U.S. rubber tire makers to clean up planet-warming emissions from their manufacturing processes.

A federal judge has temporarily barred President Donald Trump’s administration from dramatically shrinking three agencies that fund libraries, settle labor disputes and support state business contracting programs.

Congress is drafting President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security and deportation funds.

The White House plans to cut staffing at the CIA and other intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency.