House Speaker Mike Johnson suffered a decisive defeat after he tried and failed to squash a proposal for new parents in Congress to able to vote by proxy, rather than in person, as they care for newborns.

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone has called on Congress to reinvestigate the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy following last month's release of thousands of pages of government documents surrounding the killing.

A group of lawmakers from Florida, both Democrats and Republicans, recently displayed an interest in learning more about unidentified flying objects, as they discussed possible violations of congressional oversight, and the potential for white-collar crime due to a lack of transparency.

The House has rejected an effort to censure California Rep. Adam Schiff, turning aside a Republican attempt to fine the Democrat over his comments about former President Donald Trump and investigations into his ties to Russia.

Amid Republican gains in the U.S. House races in Florida, Democrat Maxwell Alejandro Frost has become the first member of Generation Z to win a seat in Congress.

Claims by one Republican congressional candidate that another GOP hopeful plotted to kill her have landed in a Florida courtroom.

According to Politico, candidate William Braddock was secretly recorded, saying he would use a "Russian-Ukrainian hit squad" to kill opponent Anna Paulina Luna.