Senate Republicans are moving this week to try and reopen the Department of Homeland Security and end the longest partial government shutdown in history.

A bill headed to Florida's special session would give parents more options when it comes to required school vaccines. Senator Clay Yarborough plans to file legislation that would expand exemptions to include personal reasons, among other provisions.

House and Senate leaders still don’t have a deal on topline budget numbers, although offers continue to be exchanged between the chambers, one top negotiator said Friday.

Congress has approved a short-term renewal of a controversial surveillance program used by U.S. spy agencies just days before it was set to expire.

The Republican-led Senate has rejected the latest Democratic attempt to halt President Donald Trump’s war in Iran.

Republicans in Congress are forging ahead with a risky go-it-alone strategy for funding the Department of Homeland Security.

A proposal for a new Maryland congressional map has officially died with the conclusion of the state's legislative session.

There won’t be a special session to work on the budget next week, legislative leaders announced Wednesday.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has praised police after the arrest of alleged organized crime boss Roberto Mazzarella.

The Georgia General Assembly has ended its annual session without a plan for new equipment to overhaul the state’s voting system by a July deadline.

President Donald Trump says he'll soon sign an order to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees who have gone without paychecks during the partial government shutdown that has reached 48 days.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune have announced a plan to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security and try to end a record partial government shutdown.

TMZ is turning its celebrity lens on Congress, tracking lawmakers on recess as a nearly six-week Department of Homeland Security shutdown drags on.

There seemed to be a deal.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed a promised executive action that will pay Transportation Security Administration employees, after a deal that sought to do the same stalled in Congress.

President Donald Trump says the American air travel system has reached a "breaking point."

President Donald Trump has signed a promised executive action that will pay Transportation Security Administration employees, after a bid to end the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security abruptly fell apart in Congress.

President Donald Trump said Thursday he would sign an order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration agents as Congress struggles to reach a deal to end the budget impasse that has jammed airports and left workers without paychecks.

Idaho lawmakers are considering a bill that would make it a crime for transgender people to use bathrooms matching their gender identity, even in private businesses.

Wellness influencer Dr. Casey Means' nomination to become U.S. surgeon general is stalled a month after senators grilled her on vaccines during a tense confirmation hearing.

The Senate has blocked a proposal that would ban transgender athletes from playing in women’s sports.

A bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security has failed to advance in the Senate amid growing concerns about long lines to get through screening at some of the country’s biggest airports.

Lawmakers appear far from ending a funding lapse at the Department of Homeland Security.

Paraguay has ratified the Mercosur and European Union free trade deal to complete South America’s approval of a huge new trade zone.

President Donald Trump says he plans to endorse a candidate in the Texas Republican Senate runoff to end the painful primary.

President Donald Trump is issuing a warning to fellow Republicans as they launch an unprecedented effort to hold the Senate floor and talk for days about a voting bill they know can’t pass.

Florida lawmakers put forward just under 2,000 bills and resolutions as they entered the 2026 legislative session. They returned home on Friday, having agreed to about 235 measures that await action from Gov. Ron DeSantis. Here is what became of 10 key issues.

The United States’ war with Iran is entering its third week, but Congress has yet to publicly test the Trump administration’s case for the conflict.

President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders that aim to make housing and mortgages more affordable.

Florida lawmakers wrapped up the regular legislative session Friday with no budget and plans to reconvene next month, ending what political experts called an “unproductive” session even as legislators approved more than 100 bills.

Senate Democrats have filed legislation that would prevent the U.S. from attacking Cuba without congressional approval.

Senate Republicans plan to launch a full debate next week on legislation to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements.

In a rare bipartisan effort for a deeply divided Congress, the Senate has passed a broad bill to make U.S. housing more accessible and affordable.

A major bill that helps address low pay for extracurricular leaders like coaches and toughens restrictions on rampant transfer issues has made it through the Legislature and will now head to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for his signature to make it a law.

Majority Leader John Thune says that the Senate will consider a bill to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements in elections.

President Donald Trump says he won’t sign any other legislation into law until Congress passes a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill that he says also must end Americans’ ability to vote by mail.

The push for better pay for coaches in the state and stronger guardrails for the Florida High School Athletic Association to enforce transfer restrictions passed another major hurdle on Monday afternoon.

The Republican leader of Arizona’s state Senate says he has complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records related to the 2020 presidential election.

A judge on has disqualified a trio of prosecutors the Trump administration tapped to oversee federal prosecutions in New Jersey after his former personal attorney was also barred from the role.

With a week left in the scheduled regular session, House and Senate leaders aren’t yet into formal budget negotiations.

Visitors to the Capitol in Washington now have a visible reminder of the siege there on Jan. 6, 2021, and the officers who fought and were injured that day.

Teachers and union leaders in Northeast Florida are warning that Senate Bill 1296, which is advancing through the Florida Legislature, could jeopardize collective-bargaining rights for public employees.

Sen. John Cornyn is going on offense against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as they fight for a Republican Senate runoff, and President Donald Trump’s endorsement hangs over it all.

A bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security is stalling out again in Congress.

The House has narrowly rejected a resolution that would curb President Donald Trump’s powers in the Iran war.

A man protesting the war in Iran has been arrested after a struggle in a U.S. Senate building.

The Trump administration has formally nominated Kevin Warsh, a former top Federal Reserve official, to be next Fed chair when Jerome Powell’s term ends in two months.

Senate Republicans have voted down an effort to halt President Donald Trump’s war against Iran.

Key members of Congress are demanding a swift vote on a war powers resolution that would restrain President Donald Trump’s military attack on Iran.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has received $110 billion in investments from Amazon, SoftBank and Nvidia, putting the technology company’s pre-money valuation at $730 billion.

Election-year legislation to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements on voting appears stalled in the Senate, for now, despite President Donald Trump’s call in his State of the Union speech that Republicans in Congress pass the bill “before anything else.”.

Wellness influencer and entrepreneur Dr. Casey Means shared a vision for addressing the root causes of chronic disease instead of what she calls “reactive sick care” during her confirmation hearing to become the next surgeon general.

A bill that would expand vaccine exemptions for K-12 schools passed its second committee hurdle in the Senate on Tuesday, but only after some Republican members expressed concern over the proposal.

The finish line is fast approaching on change for high school coaches in Florida for a path to better pay. I should say the first finish line. The next race will begin just about as soon as a pair of bills arrives on Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk for him to sign.

The Florida Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that directly addresses a recent question that was posed by members of Jacksonville’s City Council: Can a son seek a council leadership position while working alongside his father?

A shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security appears certain.

House Republicans approved legislation that would impose strict new voter ID requirements ahead of the midterm elections.

Democratic leaders say a proposal from the White House is “incomplete and insufficient” as they are demanding new restrictions on President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and threatening a shutdown of the Homeland Security Department.

Democrats have begun tentative talks with the White House on their demands for “dramatic” new restrictions on President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Florida State Senator Tom Leek, representing St. Johns, Flagler, Putnam counties and parts of Volusia, shared insights from the ongoing legislative session in Tallahassee. Leek highlighted progress on Senate Bill 482, known as the AI Bill of Rights, which aims to protect vulnerable populations.

Families of detainees in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can track their location online, but for those housed at “Deportation Depot” or “Alligator Alcatraz,” it may take longer to appear in the system. However, a new Florida bill aims to change that.

Democrats are threatening to block funding for the Homeland Security Department when it expires in two weeks unless there are “dramatic changes” and “real accountability” for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement agencies who are carrying out President Donald Trump’s campaign of federal immigration enforcement.

President Donald Trump is imploring the House to end the partial government shutdown.

President Donald Trump acted quickly to negotiate with Democratic senators on a deal to avert a government shutdown.

Houston voters who have gone almost a year without representation in the U.S. House will finally fill the seat in a special runoff election.

The Senate has voted to fund most of the government through the end of September while carving out a temporary extension for Homeland Security funding, giving Congress two weeks to debate new restrictions on federal immigration raids across the country.

The Army general tapped to lead the NSA is promising to follow the law and the Constitution when it comes to using the NSA's powerful surveillance tools.

Democrats and the White House have struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security as they negotiate new restrictions for President Donald Trump’s surge of immigration enforcement.

Anti-tax advocates are pushing to eliminate property taxes for homeowners.

A partial government shutdown is looming at week’s end.

Moderate Democratic Sen_ Jacky Rosen is calling for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying that her “attempt to mislead the American public” about the fatal shooting of a 37 year-old protester in Minneapolis is “deeply shameful.”.

Democratic senators are vowing to oppose a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security following the shooting death of a man in Minnesota.

The shutdown of Wisconsin’s version of C-SPAN amid a shortfall of fundraising has left the state as perhaps the only one in the country where its legislative floor debates are not being broadcast.

The House has barely rejected a Democratic-backed resolution that would have prevented President Donald Trump from sending U.S. military forces to Venezuela.

Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema allegedly had a romantic relationship with a member of her security detail, leading to the breakup of his marriage.

Nearly eight years after a gunman murdered 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the Florida House on Thursday passed a bill that would lower the minimum age to purchase rifles and other long guns from 21 to 18.

Congress is halfway home in approving government funding for the current budget year that began Oct. 1 after the Senate overwhelmingly passed a three-bill package on Thursday.

A legal memo that came out days before the U_S_ military operation against Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro said such a move would “not rise to the level of a war in the constitutional sense” and would serve “important national interests."

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says he expects President Donald Trump to interfere with the midterm elections.

Senate Democrats are expressing optimism they'll be able to flip the chamber this year after it looked all but impossible last year.

Georgia lawmakers are moving to void a Savannah ordinance that fines or jails people for leaving guns in unlocked cars.

The Senate has agreed to display a plaque honoring the police who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack.

The House has passed a bipartisan package of three spending bills that would fund parts of the federal government through September.

The House has passed legislation that extends expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act.

The Senate has advanced a resolution that would limit President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela.

In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House has passed legislation that would extend expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act.

President Donald Trump is now officially on board with a sanctions package aimed at Russia, according to a top GOP senator.

The House is pushing ahead with legislation to renew subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans.

Georgia is the latest state to consider eliminating its personal income tax, with Republican leaders in the Senate backing a proposal to phase it out by 2032.

Florida lawmakers next week will start the 2026 legislative session. With hundreds of bills filed for consideration during the session, here are 10 issues to watch.

Democrat Renee Hardman has been elected to the Iowa state Senate in a holiday-week special election, denying Republicans’ bid to reclaim two-thirds control of the chamber.

Voters in a Democratic-leaning West Des Moines-area district will pick a new state senator Tuesday in a special election that could allow Iowa Republicans to regain a supermajority in the chamber.

A judge has scolded Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell for including confidential victim names in court papers seeking to set aside her 2021 sex trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence.

The House has approved bipartisan legislation aimed at speeding up permitting reviews for new energy and infrastructure projects and limiting judicial review.

A U.S. senator says she's pausing the nomination for the top Coast Guard job because leaders appeared to have “backtracked” on a commitment to ensure that swastikas and nooses are considered hate symbols and prohibited from being displayed.

The Senate has moved quickly to close a loophole that could allow military aircraft to fly without broadcasting their locations, just like an Army helicopter was doing last January before it collided with an airliner over Washington, D.C., killing 67 people.

The Senate has given final passage to an annual military policy bill that will authorize $901 billion in defense programs.

House Republican leaders are determined to push ahead with a health care bill that excludes efforts to address the soaring monthly premiums for Affordable Care Act recipients.

State officials engaged in unusual mid-decade redistricting are pushing a new definition of what it means to have “fair maps” for Congress.

The Senate failed to get anywhere on health care this week.