Republicans and Democrats remained at a stalemate on the government shutdown over the weekend as it headed into its sixth week, with millions of Americans starting to lose food aid benefits and ...

Shortly after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, the political right spent a lot of time parsing whether the word “insurrection” was an apt description of the day’s events.

Two prosecutors, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, were placed on administrative leave after ...

President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster. That's so the Republican majority can bypass ...

NBC News Legal Affairs Reporter Gary Grumbach explains the court rulings on SNAP benefits. NBC News Senior National Political ...

Christopher Moynihan, 34, was charged with one felony count of making a terroristic threat. In 2023, he was sentenced to ...

Last year’s Capitol Christmas tree was an 80-foot Sitka spruce harvested in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. In 2023, a ...

Senate Republicans are resisting his demand to end the long-standing filibuster rule in order to end the government shutdown.

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was appointed by President Trump, praised two prosecutors removed from the case of a Jan. 6, 2021, rioter, saying they had “upheld the highest standards of ...

A pop-up statue of President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands was placed near the Capitol in Washington, D.C. A group ...

President Donald Trump's nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Casey Means, will testify on Capitol Hill Thursday amid scrutiny over her inactive medical license and social media endorsements.