Republicans have held onto a conservative U.S. House district in Tennessee.

Hopes for an extension of health care subsidies are dwindling in Congress.

Republican Matt Van Epps has won a special election in Tennessee for a seat in the U.S. House.

Less than a month after Democrats scored big victories in the Nov. 4 general election, voters in a heavily Republican Tennessee congressional district will fill a vacant seat Tuesday in the closely divided U.S. House.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott said his home was targeted in an attempted swatting incident.

Federal judges have allowed North Carolina to use a redrawn congressional map designed to give Republicans an additional U.S. House seat.

The White House is circulating a proposal to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies for two more years.

Former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones has announced his candidacy for governor of Alabama in 2026.

Keisha Lance Bottoms is bidding to become the first former Atlanta mayor to be elected governor of Georgia.

Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has announced she will resign from Congress on January 5, 2026.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a once-loyal supporter of President Donald Trump who has become a critic, says she is resigning from Congress in January.

Millions of Floridians will continue to see their electricity bills rise.

Federal judges have upheld several U.S. House districts drawn by North Carolina Republicans in 2023.

While President Donald Trump has struggled to settle on a way to address Americans’ concerns about high costs, Vice President JD Vance on Thursday offered a more direct and empathetic message, saying, “We hear you” and “there’s a lot more work to do.”.

President Donald Trump is once more targeting former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, and Trump is picking a political fight before next year’s elections.

The U.S. House is back in session after a multi-week hiatus.

President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to roll back protections for imperiled species and the places they live.

President Donald Trump is finding that redistricting his way to a GOP House majority in next year's midterms is a lot harder than it sounds.

President Donald Trump continues to call on Indiana lawmakers to redraw the state's congressional boundaries, even as state senators do not have enough votes to do so.

Both Democrats and Republicans alike readied for a unanimous House vote to pass a bill to force the release of the case files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

President Donald Trump's political dominance is showing cracks as he faces challenges on affordability and the Jeffrey Epstein case.

An Indiana lawmaker who who has yet to make a decision on whether to back President Donald Trump’s push to have Republicans redraw the state’s congressional boundaries was the victim of a swatting call that brought sheriff’s deputies to his home.

President Donald Trump said House Republicans should vote to release the files in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a startling reversal after previously fighting the proposal as a growing number of those in his own party supported it.

President Donald Trump has publicly ended his support for Rep_ Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her “Wacky Marjorie” and saying he would endorse a challenger against her in the next midterms “if the right person runs.”.

The leader of the Indiana state Senate, a Republican, has said that his chamber will no longer meet in December as planned to vote on redistricting, citing lack of support from his members.

Now that the government shutdown is over, House and Senate Republicans say they'll negotiate with Democrats on whether to extend COVID-era tax credits that help tens of millions of Americans afford their health care premiums.

The Justice Department has sued to block new congressional district boundaries approved by California voters, joining a legal battle that could determine which party wins control of the U.S. House in 2026.

The House is moving toward a vote on releasing files from the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

A new AP-NORC poll finds U.S. adults’ opinions of how President Donald Trump is managing the federal government have dropped sharply since early in his second term, highlighting the risks posed by the government shutdown and his efforts to reshape the federal workforce.

President Donald Trump has signed a government funding bill to end a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers at airports and generated long lines at some food banks.

The longest government shutdown in history is coming to an end, with almost no one happy with the final result.

Political pressure to limit H‑1B visas reflects real voter concerns about jobs, but if enacted broadly, the restrictions could trigger significant economic disruption and legal challenges while testing foundational American commitments to openness and opportunity.

A legislative package that could end the weekslong government shutdown leaves out any clear resolution on the expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits that have made private health insurance less costly for millions.

The Senate has passed legislation to reopen the government, bringing the longest shutdown in history closer to an end after a small group of Democrats struck a deal with Republicans.

The U.S. Senate is drawing closer to ending the U.S. government shutdown.

After voters swung toward Republican Donald Trump during last fall’s presidential election, states like Virginia and New Jersey swung back towards Democratic candidates at nearly the same velocity as 2024’s shift, an Associated Press analysis of election data from this week found.

Republicans are swatting down an offer from Democrats to end the government shutdown.

Senate Republicans have rejected legislation that would have put a check on President Donald Trump’s ability to launch an attack against Venezuela.

Talks to reopen the government are intensifying.

President Donald Trump is finding that Senate Republicans have a limit as he pushes them to scrap the filibuster.

Most California voters didn’t like redrawing their congressional districts to favor Democrats, according to the AP Voter Poll.

A day after Democrats dominated the first major Election Day since Donald Trump returned to the White House, the president is in Miami to speak at a forum of business leaders and global athletes about what he sees as his economic achievements.

The new congressional map approved by California voters marked a victory for Democrats in the national redistricting battle playing out ahead of the 2026 midterm election.

President Donald Trump lashed out at Senate Republicans to end the government shutdown, now the longest ever.

President Donald Trump’s administration is under court orders to keep the nation's largest food program running.

Voters in Maine and Texas have considered Republican-backed proposals that proponents say would safeguard elections, but opponents believe are intended to make voting more difficult.

President Donald Trump’s administration said that it will partially fund SNAP after a pair of judges’ rulings required it to keep the food aid program running.

New Jersey Republicans are trying to ride the coattails of President Donald Trump’s 2024 electoral momentum.

Donald Trump features prominently in state and local elections happening Tuesday, a year after he retook the White House.

Former President Barack Obama is urging voters to use Tuesday's elections in Virginia and New Jersey to rebuke President Donald Trump and candidates loyal to him.

Ohio's Republican-led redistricting commission has unveiled a new U.S. House map that could give Republicans a chance to win two more seats in next year's elections.

A briefing held only for Republicans in Congress on U.S. military strikes is drawing a fierce rebuke from a key Democrat.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey faces more than a dozen challengers as the Democrat seeks a third term.

Food aid for more than 40 million Americans is at risk of expiring at week's end.

A national battle over redistricting is advancing in more states.

There may be no rank-and-file Democratic senator with more at stake from the federal government shutdown than Georgia’s Jon Ossoff.

News4JAX political analyst Rick Mullaney joins News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton to look at ways to end the shutdown stalemate on this week’s episode of Politics & Power.

Maine and Texas are the latest states where Republicans are pushing ballot initiatives targeting noncitizen voting, which is rare.

Conservative voters in Northern California are alarmed that a ballot measure designed to diminish Republican representation could pass in November.

Vice President JD Vance says that he believes U.S. military members will be paid at the end of the week as the Trump administration reconfigures funding in the second-longest government shutdown.

Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, says that she doesn't oppose a push by the state’s Democratic-controlled legislature to redraw congressional districts ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

Control of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court hangs in the balance in statewide elections next week, when voters will cast ballots on judges for the state’s three highest courts.

A former Tennessee state representative has been sentenced to eight months in prison for her role in a scheme involving a taxpayer-funded mail business.

The Pentagon has confirmed it's accepted an anonymous $130 million gift to help pay members of the military during the government shutdown.

Democrats in Virginia are joining the national redistricting battle over U.S. House seats.

Members of Congress are divided largely along party lines on the demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make room for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom that President Donald Trump wants to build.

The Senate on Thursday rejected dueling partisan bills to pay federal workers during the government shutdown, with both Republicans and Democrats deflecting blame as many employees are set to miss their first full paycheck at the end of this week.

The government shutdown has reopened debate on the future of health coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

Less than two weeks from Election Day, a potentially decisive edge in California's fight over new U.S. House districts has emerged: advertising.

North Carolina lawmakers have given final approval to a new U.S. House map backed by President Donald Trump.

New Jersey Republicans have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to send election monitors to oversee the handling of mail ballots in a county that is key to the state’s Nov. 4 governor’s race between Republican Jack Ciattarelli and Democrat Mikie Sherrill.

Democrats have rallied against a proposed U.S. House map by North Carolina Republicans in Raleigh.

Former President Barack Obama will campaign alongside Democrats Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill in the final stretch of their statewide campaigns for governor in Virginia and New Jersey.

House Republicans are preparing to release a report about President Joe Biden's mental state and the alleged misuse of the presidential autopen during his term.

Senate Republican campaign leaders are using artificial intelligence-generated video to falsely depict Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer appearing to say on camera comments he made in a print publication interview about the political impacts of the partial government shutdown.

Barack Obama has endorsed Democratic candidates Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger for governor in New Jersey and Virginia.

The commander of U.S. military operations in the region where forces have been attacking alleged drug boats says he will retire in December.

Senate Democrats are rejecting for the 10th time a stopgap spending bill that would reopen the government.

The Supreme Court has indicated a willingness to limit race-based districts under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

The public release of a Young Republican group chat that included racist language, jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers has prompted bipartisan calls for those involved to be removed from or resign their positions.

Federal workers furloughed or working without pay are feeling the financial squeeze and fear being swept up in the Trump administration's layoffs.

North Carolina Republican legislative leaders say they will vote next week on redrawing the state’s U.S. House district map, with the aim of securing another GOP seat within already right-leaning boundaries.

A local candidate in the suburbs of New York City will remain on the November ballot, despite vanishing months ago after a night swim in the Atlantic Ocean.

Vice President JD Vance is warning of deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on.

Senate Republicans have voted to roll back restrictions on mining and drilling in federal land in three Western states.

Vice President JD Vance is expected to visit Indiana on Friday for a second time in recent months as the White House continues to push for redistricting.

Democrats say fallout from the Trump administration’s aggressive tactics on the government shutdown could give them a welcome boost in the only two governors’ races on the ballot this year.

To hear party leaders talk, the seventh day of the government shutdown sounded a lot like the first.

Matt Van Epps, a former commissioner in Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s administration, has won a crowded Republican primary in the special election to replace a GOP congressman who left office this summer.

The FBI in 2023 analyzed phone records of more than a half dozen Republican lawmakers as part of an investigation into efforts by Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Utah’s Republican-led Legislature has approved a revised congressional map that could give Democrats an improved chance at flipping a seat as the party fights to topple the GOP’s slim majority in the U.S. House.

Republicans and Democrats have begun pouring money into an election this November for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Republican congressman Wesley Hunt is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas, defying Senate GOP leadership and adding a new element to an already contentious primary campaign.

The fight for control of the U.S. House is underway in California.

Washington lawmakers remain at a standstill over reopening the government, showing few signs of progress.

Political leaders in Washington are spending much of their energy these days blaming the other party for what could be a significant government shutdown.

A Tennessee special election to replace a Republican congressman who stepped aside this summer has attracted crowded primaries for both major parties.

A new poll conducted just prior to the current government shutdown showed most Americans wanted Congress to extend tax credits that could expire at the end of the year.

Hopes for a quick end to the government shutdown are fading.

If you’ve been in Washington long enough, you’ve most likely argued both sides of a government shutdown.