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Republican senator explodes after Jack Smith conspiracy theory falls apart

Senators called for tighter rules and privacy safeguards around AI-powered license plate readers Wednesday, as they raised concerns about the potential consequences of errors and unrestricted access to vehicle-location data

Bestiality takes over Kash Patel’s testimony as Senators zero in on new rules for applicants

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, is once again pressing his signature healthcare proposal, and this time he has new research behind him

Reproductive health advocates fear newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche will usher in a new wave of restrictions on abortion — even in states where it is legal

The road to confirmation just got bumpier for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche

Villegas had previously lived in Alamo, Texas, after coming to the United States from Mexico when she was 7 years old

John Cornyn (Texas) and Thom Tillis (N.C.) have not committed to backing him, and their opposition could sink the nomination

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth requests fresh funding for Iran War in remarks to senators

Alison is a senior news reporter covering US politics and legal news

Trump on FBI investigating Lindsey Graham's death: 'They're wasting their time'

Trump's AG pick Todd Blanche grilled over Epstein files and Ghislaine Maxwell prison transfer

Democrats have excoriated it as a corrupt and illegal handout to Mr. Trump, who has aggressively avoided taxes and faced I.R.S. audits throughout his life

With Social Security's looming insolvency date roughly six years away, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a proposal Tuesday to grapple with one of the most consequential financial challenges facing the federal government

Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville has shared details about Lindsey Graham's final moments before the longtime South Carolina GOP senator's death on Saturday at the age of 71

The death of US Senator Lindsey Graham has removed one of Washington’s most influential advocates of a hardline approach towards China at a moment when Republicans are debating how aggressively the United States should confront Beijing and project military power overseas

Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger criticized MAGA podcaster Katie Miller after her responses to tributes for Senator Lindsey Graham, who has passed away at 71

Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger criticized MAGA podcaster Katie Miller after her responses to tributes for Senator Lindsey Graham, who has passed away at 71

U.S.-Iran strikes escalate over the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to collapse ceasefire

Israel's foreign minister called it textbook incitement to genocide

Israel and Greece have hardened their opposition to a potential U.S. sale of F-35 fighter jets to Türkiye after U.S. President Donald Trump signaled that he was considering reinstating Ankara into the program

As preconditions to their effectiveness they must accumulate both significant seniority in the body of 100, and the respect of their ever changing 99 colleagues

All living US ex-presidents — with the notable absence of current White House occupant Donald Trump — joined a star-studded lineup on Thursday, June 18 for the opening of Barack Obama's presidential center in Chicago

House Rejects Renewing Broad Spy Power in Fight Over Pulte

Pulte's appointment heightens ODNI-CIA tensions, complicates FISA reauthorization

Last August, Donald Trump’s administration inked a $1.3 billion contract to open a 5,000-bed facility at Fort Bliss U.S. Army base in the Chihuahuan Desert, where nearly 3,000 detainees are jailed in six long tent encampments on any given day

But the Federal Vacancies Reform Act generally caps such temporary leaders at 210 days

The Republican-led Senate voted 52-46 along party lines in favor of Republican National Committee ‌lawyer Katie Lane joining the bench as a district court judge in Montana, despite the ABA deeming her as having too little legal experience to warrant a judgeship

A bipartisan group of senators is pushing back on delays by the Department of Defense in sending $600 million in security aid to Ukraine and other allies in eastern Europe, dispatching a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday that calls for the funding to be disbursed

Autism services are the latest Medicaid fraud target for CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz

Trump makes fresh case for controversial $400 million ballroom after WHCD shooting

Comey lost his FBI job in a shock firing by Trump in May 2017

Senators held a procedural vote for beginning debate on a package of more than a dozen of Trump’s nominations to federal attorney posts

Legal questions are emerging over whether charges against former FBI Director James Comey would withstand a First Amendment challenge as he is indicted for a social media post allegedly tied to threats against President Donald Trump

Hayam El Gamal's five children are aged 5 to 18

U.S. health officials stopped the publication of a study on whether the COVID-19 vaccine was keeping adults from becoming sick enough to have to go to the hospital

The move comes days after Venezuelan migrant Jose Medina-Medina, 25, was charged with the fatal shooting of Loyola University Chicago freshman Sheridan Gorman, 18, who was killed in the early hours of March 19 while walking with friends near Lake Michigan

Senators voted 54-45 for 48-year-old Republican Mullin, a former wrestler and martial arts fighter who previously served as a senator for Oklahoma

Homan took questions on "State of the Union" regarding President Donald Trump's plan to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to assist TSA agents in airports across the country with hours-long lines caused by staffing shortages during the ongoing partial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown

It pitted the powerful Congressional Black Caucus against the state's sitting governor against a Democratic fundraising powerhouse

Juliana Stratton was chosen Tuesday night by Illinois Democrats to replace the retiring Senator Dick Durbin, the second most powerful Democrat in the US Senate

House primaries feature competitive races for retiring lawmakers' seats

Donald Trump is fracturing his party’s Senate caucus while Democrats are finally speaking in unison

Judiciary Committee Democrats in both chambers on Monday urged the Justice Department to investigate whether Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lied under oath about several matters when appearing before Congress

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is expected to start what could be up to two weeks of debate on the SAVE America Act

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) chastised former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after President Donald Trump fired her last week following mounting disapproval over her leadership of the department, including the handling of the administration’s deeply unpopular immigration crackdown

Nearly two decades after his second tour, Nathan Wendland is still troubled by his experiences in Iraq

During war time, talking points and propaganda reflexively fly in every direction, but the Trump administration still hasn’t been able to land on one coherent answer