President Joe Biden is threatening to veto legislation that would expand the federal judiciary.

JD Vance’s election as vice president has opened up one of Ohio’s U.S. Senate seats for the third time in as many years.

Rep. Jim Jordan's leadership ambitions have been vividly apparent, if unspoken, in recent months.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content during the pandemic.

The FBI says former President Donald Trump has agreed to be interviewed as part of its investigation into his attempted assassination in Pennsylvania.

House Republicans have advanced a resolution that would hold President Joe Biden’s ghostwriter in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over records related to the special counsel investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents.

Fani Willis called out her critics in a defiant speech Thursday at a Black church outside Atlanta, not naming names but appearing to refer to Donald Trump and others.

The House has voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio of President Joe Biden’s interview in his classified documents case.

Merrick Garland is the third attorney general in U.S. history to be held in contempt of Congress.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to testify before Congress on July 12, a day after former President Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money trial.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to testify before a Republican-controlled congressional subcommittee, but likely not until after former President Donald Trump is sentenced in July.

Republicans in Congress are embracing Donald Trump’s strategy of blaming the U.S. justice system after his historic guilty verdict.

Two House committees have moved ahead with contempt charges against Attorney General Merrick Garland for refusing to turn over audio from President Joe Biden’s interview with a special counsel.

House Republicans are moving forward with holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress.

The Justice Department is blasting Republicans’ effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt over his refusal to turn over unredacted materials related to the special counsel probe into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents.

House Republicans are threatening to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress if he does not turn over unredacted materials related to the special counsel probe into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents.

House Republicans have filed a lawsuit seeking to force two Justice Department lawyers to testify about the criminal investigation of Hunter Biden as part of the chamber’s impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

House Republicans are demanding to know what led to a Justice Department order that a union of immigration judges get supervisor approval before speaking about the heavily backlogged courts.

Former President Donald Trump has issued a last-minute endorsement in a highly sought northwest Ohio congressional district, backing state Rep. Derek Merrin as the best choice to face incumbent Democrat Marcy Kaptur this fall.

The special counsel who impugned the president’s age and competence in his report on how Joe Biden handled classified documents will himself be up for questioning this week.

The Justice Department is pushing back against a new set of subpoenas quietly sent out by House Republicans related the Hunter Biden criminal investigation in another brewing faceoff in the impeachment inquiry.

Hunter Biden has appeared on Capitol Hill for a defiant closed-door deposition with lawmakers.

House Republicans will hold a public hearing next month with the special counsel who found evidence that President Joe Biden had mishandled classified information when he was out of office but also concluded that criminal charges were not warranted.

Hunter Biden has agreed to appear before House Republicans for a private deposition next month, ending months of defiance from the president’s son, who had insisted on testifying publicly.

In a story published January 17, 2024, about discrimination lawsuits filed against U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno and his businesses, The Associated Press misspelled the name of a lawyer representing one of the plaintiffs.

House Republicans are warning Hunter Biden that they will move to hold him in contempt of Congress if he doesn’t appear this month for a closed-door deposition, raising the stakes in the growing standoff over testimony from President Joe Biden’s son.

North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry won't seek reelection to the U.S. House next year after all.

House Republicans are demanding that Hunter Biden appear this month for a closed-door deposition, rejecting his offer to testify publicly while pledging to release a transcript of the private interview for transparency.

House Republicans have issued a subpoena to a senior federal prosecutor involved in the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden.

The White House is firing back on a recent subpoenas issued by House Republicans targeting members of President Joe Biden’s family and his aides.

New House Speaker Mike Johnson is showing what hardball partisan tactics might come next.

New House Speaker Mike Johnson has inherited many of the same problems that bedeviled Republican leaders with far more experience.

It’s Day 20 without a House speaker, and Republicans are starting over.

For many Americans, the Republican dysfunction that has ground business in the U.S. House to a halt as two wars rage abroad and a budget crisis looms at home is feeding into a longer-term pessimism about the country’s core institutions.

An onslaught of pressure from the Republican Party base was intended to prod the GOP’s moderate and establishment members to support Rep. Jim Jordan for House speaker.

Republicans have dropped Jim Jordan as their nominee for House speaker, setting them back to square one with no clear plan ahead.

Refusing to drop out, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan is telling GOP colleagues he is still running for House speaker.

Rep. Jim Jordan, so far, has failed to get enough votes to become House Speaker but his fight for the coveted leadership role isn’t done — and the devotion of many constituents back in Ohio is unwavering.

There will be no further votes for House speaker on Wednesday after Republicans reached an impasse on how to move forward.

Rep. Jim Jordan has failed to win the vote to become House speaker on a crucial second ballot.

The U.S. House adjourned for the day after Rep. Jim Jordan failed to garner enough Republican support to clinch the gavel in the first ballot for House speaker.

Rep. Jim Jordan is facing strong opposition to his speakership bid as 20 fellow Republicans voted against him on a first ballot.

Republicans have rejected congressman Jim Jordan for House speaker on the first ballot.

Hard-charging right-wing Republican Rep. Jim Jordan is shoring up support to win the House speaker's gavel.

Rep. Jim Jordan becoming House speaker would help cement the far right’s takeover of the Republican Party and trigger conflict with Democrats over the size and scope of government.

The U.S. House has been without a leader for more than a week, as majority Republicans threw out Speaker Kevin McCarthy and refused to rally around his No. 2, Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise.

Republicans have chosen firebrand Rep. Jim Jordan as their new nominee for House speaker, putting the gavel within reach of the staunch ally of GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump.

Republican Steve Scalise has ended his bid to become House speaker after failing to secure the votes to win the gavel.

The speaker of the House is normally elected every two years, in January, when the House organizes for a new session.

Former President Donald Trump is defending his record governing the nation for four years without any new wars.

Republicans have nominated Rep. Steve Scalise to be the next House speaker.

The House Republican majority is stuck and unable to coalesce around a new speaker.

Republicans have no clear idea who will be U.S. House speaker, leaving an unprecedented power vacuum in Congress.

Donald Trump’s decision to insert himself into the chaotic race to replace Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker will serve as a test of the former president’s sway with lawmakers as he works to win a second term.

Republicans are trying to rally around a new House speaker after Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s ouster.

Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio to succeed Kevin McCarthy as House speaker.

The future of additional U.S. aid to Ukraine is in doubt now that Kevin McCarthy has been ousted as House speaker.

The stunning removal of Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker has left the House adrift.

A House committee has called off a vote on a recommendation that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg be held in contempt of Congress for failing to fully supply documents related to an investigation into supposed censorship of conservatives by tech companies.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas faced a barrage of criticism by House Republicans who, in recent months, have floated impeaching the cabinet official over what they see as his dereliction of duty in securing the southern border.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being threatened with contempt of Congress.

The lead prosecutor in the case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter says he is willing to testify publicly this fall.

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The chair of the Federal Trade Commission has defended her aggressive legal strategy toward the country’s biggest technology companies as she appeared before the House Judiciary Committee.

FBI Director Chris Wray defended what he calls the “real FBI” before a contentious hearing of the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee.

The Republicans who lead three key House committees are joining forces to probe the Justice Department’s handling of charges against Hunter Biden after making sweeping claims about misconduct at the agency.

The special counsel who investigated the FBI’s probe of ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign found himself at the center of a heated political fight as he appeared before a congressional committee.

Former President Donald Trump’s indictment on charges of mishandling classified documents is set to play out in federal court in Florida.

Several FBI employees have accused the bureau of politicization in congressional testimony, a day after the agency announced two of them had seen their security clearances revoked over concerns about how their views of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack affected their work.

A Republican lawmaker says the ex-prosecutor who once oversaw Manhattan’s investigation of former President Donald Trump repeatedly declined to substantively answer questions at a closed-door meeting of the House Judiciary Committee.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has agreed to let Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee question an ex-prosecutor about the criminal case against former President Donald Trump.

A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked House Republicans from questioning a former Manhattan prosecutor about the criminal case against ex-President Donald Trump, the latest twist in a legal battle between Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office and the House Judiciary Committee.

A federal judge has ruled that House Republicans can question a former Manhattan prosecutor about the criminal case against former President Donald Trump.

Republicans are jump-starting an immigration and border enforcement package.

Republicans upset with Donald Trump’s indictment are escalating their war on the prosecutor who charged him.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has filed a federal lawsuit against Rep. Jim Jordan, accusing the Republican of a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” him over his prosecution of former President Donald Trump.

House Republicans have subpoenaed one of the former Manhattan prosecutors who had been leading a criminal investigation into Donald Trump before quitting last year in a clash over the direction of the probe.

House Republicans are demanding testimony and documents from two former Manhattan prosecutors who had been leading a criminal investigation into Donald Trump before quitting last year in a clash over the direction of the probe.

The FBI finds itself in a challenging moment as it conducts simultaneous investigations involving classified documents held by former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.

House Republicans have issued another series of subpoenas as part of an ongoing investigation into what they contend is the mistreatment of parents who protested “woke” school board policies.

House Republicans are launching far-reaching investigations as part of their oversight agenda of the Biden administration.

Subpoenas have been sent to the chief executives of the five largest tech companies as congressional Republicans moved to investigate what they assert is widespread corporate censorship of conservative voices.

Republicans have opened a new inquiry with a brazen attempt to portray the federal government as weaponized against Americans.

House Republicans are taking early action on abortion now that they are in the majority.

House Republicans have moved to swiftly establish the marquee investigations of their new majority, voting to create panels focused on China and what they assert is rampant abuse of power in the federal government.

After an epic 15-ballot election to become House speaker, Republican Kevin McCarthy faces his next big test in governing a fractious, slim majority.

As Republicans struggled for a second day to elect a House speaker, Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida emerged as the choice of conservative holdouts who are refusing to support Kevin McCarthy’s bid.

Dozens of military veterans have hand-delivered letters to top Republicans in the U.S. House, calling on them to publicly condemn political violence as the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol approaches.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack has referred Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and three other GOP lawmakers to undergo an ethics investigation for their refusal to comply with congressional subpoenas.

After a year of Russian troop buildup, on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military invasion of Ukraine.

House Republicans are promising aggressive oversight of the Biden administration once they assume the majority next year.

Even with their threadbare House majority, Republicans doubled down this week on using their new power to investigate the Biden administration and in particular the president’s son.

The Republican Party’s capture of the House majority is upending the agenda in Washington, empowering GOP lawmakers to pursue conservative goals and vigorously challenge the policies of President Joe Biden and his administration.

The House Jan. 6 committee is eyeing a close to its work and a final report laying out its findings about the U.S. Capitol insurrection by the end of the year.

Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota won a closer-than-expected Democratic primary race against a centrist challenger who questioned Omar's support for the “defund the police” movement.

Republicans Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas led the Senate challenge on Jan. 6, 2021, to Joe Biden's victory.

The National Association of Immigration Judges has asked the federal government to restore its union recognition after the Trump administration stripped its official status and the system’s chief judge resigned after two years on the job.

A ban on certain semi-automatic weapons is moving forward in the House.

The Jan. 6 congressional hearings are being held with the help of a big-time television producer, and dramatic revelations have been promised.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol will hold the first in a series of hearings laying out its findings on Thursday night.