POLITICS/GOVERNMENT

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is stepping onto the front lines of the battle for democracy in Africa.

Taiwan’s president is beginning a swing through the United States and Central America.

House Republicans are set to approve a sprawling energy package that counters virtually all of President Joe Biden’s agenda to address climate change.

President Joe Biden won’t veto a Republican-led measure to end the national COVID emergency.

Mississippi's Republican-led Senate has voted against confirming longtime educator Robert P.

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley has tried to force a Senate vote on legislation that would ban TikTok from operating in the United States.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Rolling Fork, Mississippi, on Friday to meet those impacted by last week’s massive storm that ripped through more than a half-dozen towns.

President Joe Biden — surrounded by Greek-American politicians and community leaders — marked Greek Independence Day at the White House on Wednesday.

Congress is now considering doing something it hasn’t done since the Vietnam War — repealing authorizations for the use of military force.

The Minneapolis City Council is set to hold a special meeting to discuss a potential settlement in a lawsuit filed by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights over the city’s policing practices after the murder of George Floyd.

A person close to Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman says he'll return to the Senate in April, two months after the freshman Democrat sought inpatient treatment for clinical depression.

As Donald Trump rails against a possible indictment in New York, his team is leaning into a video-heavy strategy that has quietly become a cornerstone of his 2024 presidential campaign.

West Virginia will no longer allow children and young teens to marry.

President Alberto Fernández of Argentina has used a White House meeting to spotlight the economic strain his country faces as he looks for President Joe Biden to back Argentina’s effort to renegotiate with the International Monetary Fund on terms of $44 billion debt.

Congress on Wednesday approved a resolution to overturn the Biden administration's protections for thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways.

A congressional hearing targeting what one lawmaker called “NIL chaos” in college sports drifted into the consequences of college athletes being deemed employees.

A career criminal whose rap sheet includes bank robberies and a murder conspiracy was sentenced to 16 years for killing a New Jersey political consultant in exchange for money in 2014.

The Supreme Court is grappling with whether a man serving a life sentence for his role on an international “kill team” should get a new trial.

A judge has ordered the U.S. government to resume regular oil and gas lease sales on federal lands in North Dakota.

The Manhattan grand jury investigating hush money paid on Donald Trump’s behalf is scheduled to consider other matters next week before taking a previously scheduled two-week break.