Australia’s Parliament has resumed for the first time since the Labor Party's historic majority win in May.

Debate over President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget-and-policy package is over on Capitol Hill.

There’s no filibuster in the House, but Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries essentially conducted one anyway.

Arizona's top Democrats will bypass the state Democratic Party for next year’s midterms.

Congressional Democrats are grappling with how to conduct oversight of the Trump administration after some colleagues were arrested and face charges for attempting to observe the administration's conduct.

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The bond market has a sleepy reputation, but it can pack a punch when alarmed.

Work requirements for Medicaid recipients, food assistance cuts and other measures in the budget passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would rearrange the U.S. social safety net.

Stocks drifted to a mixed close on Wall Street in what has been a rocky week because of worries coming out of the bond market about the U.S. government’s mounting debt.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference Tuesday morning in Naples to highlight the efforts to restore natural resources across the state, while continuing to express his disapproval for the House of Representatives’ budget proposal.

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Three spring elections have provided early warning signs to Republicans and President Donald Trump.

The District of Columbia's non-voting delegate in the House of Representatives is hailing President Donald Trump’s support for a budget fix that would prevent immediate financial disaster for the city.

Australians will go to the polls on May 3 with high costs of living and a shortage of housing key issues likely weighing against the government.

The Senate has swiftly approved legislation that would allow the District of Columbia to keep its budget intact.

Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole new states.

When Fargo voters approved a unique local election system in 2018, their goal was to choose candidates with broader support to lead North Dakota’s largest city.

President Donald Trump is heading to Capitol Hill this week to deliver a speech to Congress.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has asked the Supreme Court to void her impeachment and block a Senate trial that could remove her from office.

Philippine government investigators have filed criminal complaints including sedition against Vice President Sara Duterte over her public threat to have the president assassinated if she herself was killed in an escalating political storm.

Mike Johnson was reelected as House speaker on a single vote.

The 119th Congress is convening for the first time and House Speaker Mike Johnson has narrowly been reelected to his post.

Republican Mike Johnson has narrowly won reelection to the House speakership on a dramatic first-ballot vote, overcoming hard-right GOP holdouts in a tense standoff.

Republican Mike Johnson has narrowly won reelection to the House speakership on a dramatic first-ballot vote, overcoming hard-right GOP holdouts in a tense standoff.

President Joe Biden has vetoed a once-bipartisan effort to add 66 new federal district judgeships.

Florida Rep. Kat Kammack will hold a news conference with bipartisan lawmakers and the families of hostages in Gaza.

Rep. Fentrice Driskell, Democratic Leader of the Florida House of Representatives, is urging action on the expansion of the Florida KidCare program.

The House has passed what was once a bipartisan effort to expand the number of federal district trial court judgeships across the country.

A group led by left-wing activists has filed a second impeachment complaint against the Philippine vice president over her alleged misuse of government funds and demanded that she be permanently barred from holding public office.

Philippine police officials have filed criminal complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte and her security staff for allegedly assaulting authorities and disobeying orders in a recent altercation in Congress.

The U.S. House passed legislation that would give the Treasury Department unilateral authority to strip the tax-exempt status of nonprofits it claims support terrorism.

Legislation for the world's first legal ban on children under 16 using social media has been introduced in Australia's Parliament.

The Australian government's plan to ban children from social media to protect them from harm has won almost universal political support.

Michigan may play a decisive role in a presidential election for the third consecutive time.

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries crisscrossed Southern California over the weekend as his party works to wrest control of the U.S. House from Republicans.

The Electoral College is the unique American system of electing presidents.

Congress is off for the campaign season.

The top U.N. official in Libya is warning that the political, military and security situation in the oil-rich north African country has deteriorated “quite rapidly” and without renewed political talks leading to a unified government and elections there will be greater instability.

The South Dakota Supreme Court has reversed a judge's dismissal of a lawsuit seeking to remove an abortion rights initiative from the November ballot.

Republican Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania will lead a House task force charged with investigating the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.

The uproar over President Joe Biden's ability to win reelection is leaving Democrats at a standstill.

The mood on Capitol Hill has turned grim as Democrats wrestled over President Joe Biden’s reelection.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday is holding a press conference in Miami to sign three bills aimed at enhancing cancer research, innovation and health care.

An anti-abortion group in South Dakota has filed a lawsuit to block an abortion rights measure from the November ballot.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed the state’s $116.5 billion budget on Wednesday, but that was about $1 billion less than what Florida legislators recommended.

South Carolina lawmakers will go before voters next week in state primary elections.

A young boy sitting behind his father on the House floor has become the latest social media star after performing for the C-SPAN cameras.

The MacArthur Foundation will let loose another $100 million to a single project in the third installation of its global 100&Change competition, which for the first time requires applicants to address diversity, equity, and inclusion issues, the foundation announced Wednesday.

As Donald Trump makes a comeback bid to return to power, Republicans in Congress have become even more likely to cast doubts on President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.

The Supreme Court has ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander.

Democrats joined a majority of Republicans on Wednesday to save Speaker Mike Johnson from an attempt by GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to remove him from the job.

Connecticut lawmakers are taking their first steps toward tightening absentee ballot laws since video last year captured people stuffing reams of ballots into collection boxes in Bridgeport, the state's most populous city.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she'll call a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson.

The House has passed legislation that would ban TikTok in the United States if the popular social media platform’s China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake within a year.

Legislation that could ban TikTok if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake has won a major boost as House Republicans included it in a package of bills that would send U.S. aid to Ukraine and Israel.

House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will try to advance wartime aid for Israel this week.

Michigan Democrats hope to restore their slim majority in the state House of Representatives when voters fill two vacant seats in suburban Detroit.

Hard-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is escalating her criticism of House Speaker Mike Johnson and threatening his ouster.

A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Opinion Research finds that while Americans say they respect the Constitution’s checks and balances and don’t want a president to have too much power, that view shifts if the candidate of their party wins the presidency.

Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he’s going to put together an investor group to buy TikTok after the House passed a bill that would ban the popular video app in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake.

The House has approved legislation that would ban TikTok if its Beijing-based parent company doesn’t divest from the popular social media platform, escalating the fight over the hot-button issue.

Republicans in Iowa’s House of Representatives have approved a bill that would criminalize the death of an “unborn person” — over Democrats’ concerns about how it might impact in vitro fertilization.

Congress has passed another short-term spending measure that would keep one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22.

A fiery debate over public health and personal rights has gripped Puerto Rico as legislators clash with medical experts.

Diversity initiatives would be defunded or banned from universities and other public institutions under a slate of bills pending in Republican-led legislatures, with some lawmakers counting on the issue resonating with voters in this election year.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says that U.S. Republican senators should be “ashamed” for leaving about $60 billion in wartime aid for Ukraine in limbo in a recent vote.

The House has failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he is “totally focused on the work” that his agency does and is not distracted by politics.

Puerto Rico legislators are holding a public hearing on a bill that seeks to prohibit discrimination against certain hairstyles in the racially diverse U.S. territory, sparking a heated debate.

It’s a big year for congressional elections, and already it’s known there will be some attrition with candidates who won’t mount reelection bids in 2024.

Taylor Swift is adding one more accolade to her list of accomplishments this year: a resolution recognizing 2023 as the Taylor Swift era in her home state of Pennsylvania.

The House has voted to censure Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman for triggering a fire alarm in a U.S. Capitol office building when the chamber was in session.

What do you do when you’re literally voted out of congress by your peers for being a soon-to-be convicted criminal? You turn to making Cameos, of course!

With George Santos out of Congress, the special election to fill his seat has been set for Feb. 13.

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

The 1st District Court of Appeal reversed a lower court’s ruling that the map that rewrote U.S. Rep. Al Lawson’s district was unconstitutional because it diminished Black voters’ ability to elect a candidate of their choice.

George Santos is gone from the House, but his name is certain to pop up in key congressional races across New York next year.

The House is making history this year.

The House has voted to expel Republican Rep. George Santos of New York following a blistering ethics report on his conduct that included converting campaign donations for his own use.

Survivors of the harmful morning sickness drug thalidomide were in the public gallery when Australia’s Parliament made a national apology for what was described as one of the darkest chapters in Australia’s medical history.

Australia's immigration minister says three murderers are among 81 foreigners recently released after the High Court ruled their indefinite detention in migrant centers was unconstitutional.

Australia's immigration minister says 80 people including convicted criminals who are considered dangerous have been released from Australian migrant detention centers since the High Court ruled last week that their indefinite detention wis unconstitutional.

The man who originally introduced the bill, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, reintroduced the bill to Congress last year.

Rep. George Santos has easily survived a vote to expel him from the House as most Republicans opted to withhold punishment as both his criminal trial and a House Ethics Committee investigation proceed.

Massachusetts is working to fully atone for its witch trial legacy nearly 400 years after the first person was executed there for witchcraft.

The Philippine defense chief has ordered all defense personnel and the 163,000-member military to refrain from using digital applications that harness artificial intelligence to generate personal portraits, saying they could pose security risks.

Ohio Representative Jim Jordan has failed in two votes this week to become Speaker of the House. He’s the candidate Republican Congressman Aaron Bean supports as do most of the GOP members.

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

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.

Rep. Patrick McHenry is presiding over the House as speaker pro tempore following the unprecedented ouster of Kevin McCarthy.

Dysfunction within the Republican Party isn’t limited to the leadership chaos in the House of Representatives playing out in the nation’s capital.

Most of the top Republican candidates running for president in 2024 reacted grimly to the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy by a faction of hard-liners in their own party.

The House of Representatives has entered uncharted territory after the success of a last-ditch, right-wing effort to remove fellow Republican Kevin McCarthy from the speakership.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy had support from 208 members of his conference to remain as House speaker.

The House of Representatives has entered uncharted territory after the success of a last-ditch, right-wing effort to remove fellow Republican Kevin McCarthy from the speakership.

The White House is calling the Republicans’ newly-launched impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden “extreme politics at its worst.”.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he's directing the House to open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

Medical authorities say clashes between rival militias in Libya’s capital have killed at least 27 people and left residents trapped in their homes.

The Congressional Budget Office reports that economic and job growth so far this year has been stronger than forecast in February, but an updated outlook sees parts of the economy as weakening through 2024.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who served almost nine years in office after seizing power in a 2014 military coup, is leaving politics.