House Speaker Mike Johnson met Thursday with Republican holdouts to his bid to retain the gavel in the new Congress, one day before the House convenes and votes for a speaker, which could come down to ...

Longtime Congressman Bennie Thompson received one of the highest civilian honors from President Biden with the Presidential ...

President-elect Trump announced several appointments for his Treasury Department and choices for ambassadors for two European ...

Meta is shaking up its policy team ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, with global policy head Nick Clegg ...

JD Vance is set to take on the role of vice president on Jan. 20, but it's still unclear who will take over his Senate seat.

The Iowa Republican, who has served in the U.S. Senate since 1981, will take the position that goes to the longest-serving senator in the party that controls the chamber. Grassley also held the ...

Reading Chief Justice John Roberts’ annual end-of-year report on the federal judiciary is a bit unsettling, and not just ...

Cheney received the country's second-highest civilian medal for her work on the bipartisan Jan. 6 House select committee – a role that cost her politically.

Trump calls climate change a hoax. The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment. But his former ...

The FBI is releasing new information about a suspect who planted pipe bombs four years ago outside the offices of the ...

Al-Monitor's top articles of 2024 delivered exclusive reporting on the Middle East's tumultuous year. From Assad's fall in ...

Jim Gaffigan recently weighed in on his previous anti-Trump social media posts from 2020, saying he regrets that supporters of President-elect Donald Trump took his criticism personally.