Iran is launching more missiles at Israel and U.S. bases as war in the Middle East enters a sixth day.

Iran is launching more missiles at Israel as attacks in the Middle East commence for a sixth day.

As the Trump administration dismantles the Education Department, the agency is pulling back on its role policing discrimination in America’s schools.

Republicans are invoking the war in Iran and the prospect of retaliatory terrorist attacks as they tee up votes on a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security.

The House is preparing to vote on a war powers resolution that would halt President Donald Trump’s attack on Iran.

The new president of Honduras, who was elected with the backing of President Donald Trump, has ordered a review of economic agreements with China.

President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project is too big and should be scaled back.

Voters who cast ballots during extended polling place hours in Dallas and Williamson counties are waiting to see if their votes will count.

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

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrapped up two days of scrutiny in Congress, appearing for the first time in front of lawmakers since the shooting deaths of two protesters in Minneapolis at the hands of immigration enforcement officers.

Colorado’s Democratic governor is signaling his openness to granting clemency to a former county clerk who was convicted in a scheme attempting to find proof of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

President Donald Trump is pressing Big Tech to build its own power as AI data centers spark anger over electric bills.

The House Oversight Committee has voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions over the Justice Department’s handling of files related to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation.

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is meeting Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez as the Trump administration pushes to shape the country's oil and mineral sector.

President Donald Trump's administration is expanding its crackdown on state Medicaid programs to New York, launching a fraud probe in the state.

IRS chief Frank Bisignano has largely declined to answer questions from lawmakers about unlawful releases of taxpayer data to immigration agents.

The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing a request for new warnings on antidepressant drugs, and that's presenting an unusual conflict of interest at the agency.

Minnesota’s governor and attorney general are defending their efforts to combat fraud.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. is quickly gaining air superiority over Iran but the U.S. can't stop all air attacks.

Sri Lanka’s navy has recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 people after an Iranian warship was sunk by a U.S. submarine in international waters near the island.

Texas Democrats have picked James Talarico as their Senate nominee, and the state lawmaker now becomes a national voice against President Donald Trump.

Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana has dropped his bid for reelection to a third term.

Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, long has been considered a contender to the post of the country’s next paramount ruler — even before his father's death though he’s never being elected nor appointed to a government position.

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

A widening U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has seen major strikes, missile fire across the region, and fresh fears for global energy and markets.

Some of the sharpest criticism President Donald Trump has faced in the early days of the Iran war has come from once-loyal media figures more accustomed to singing his praises.

Iran is launching more missiles at Israel as attacks in the Middle East commence for a sixth day.

An operations center targeted by an Iranian drone strike that killed six American soldiers was located in a civilian port in Kuwait, more than 10 miles away from the main Army base.

A rule change for primary voting in two Texas counties led to mass voter confusion that eventually led to a state supreme court ruling, threats of more legal action and the potential that an untold number of voters could find themselves disenfranchised.

Questions are mounting at the U.S. Capitol over the Trump administration’s shifting rationale for going to war with Iran.

President Donald Trump says “someone from within” the Iranian regime might be the best choice to take power once the U.S.-Israel military campaign is completed.

The House Ethics Committee has opened an investigation into claims that Rep. Nancy Mace overcharged a congressional reimbursement program for housing and living costs.

President Donald Trump is threatening to cut off trade with Spain.

The largest U.S. diplomatic drawdown in the Middle East since the 2003 Iraq War is creating an apparently unplanned for crisis for the Trump administration.

After abandoning its efforts to enforce executive orders targeting some of the world’s top law firms, President Donald Trump's administration has abruptly reversed course and said it'll proceed with the court fight.

France is moving to tie its nuclear deterrent strategy more closely with European allies while keeping full control over any strike decision.

Longtime Sen. John Cornyn and MAGA favorite Ken Paxton are heading to a May runoff in Texas’ Republican Senate primary, while Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and state Rep. James Talarico are in a close race for the Democratic nomination.

The U.S.-Israel war on Iran has fueled a disagreement between U.S. President Donald Trump and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has defended her agency in testimony and under questioning at a Senate hearing.

U.S. President Donald Trump says “someone from within” Iran’s government might be best suited to take power once the U.S.-Israeli war on the country ends.

Primary elections set up major Senate fights in Texas and North Carolina, and they also expose fresh tension over voting rules.

Israel stepped up airstrikes on Iranian missile launchers and a nuclear research site, and Iran retaliated against Israel and across the Gulf region, disrupting energy supplies and travel.

Candidates in Texas’ tightly competitive U.S. Senate primary were treading carefully in response to news of U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran.

President Donald Trump says he plans to attend the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on April 25, the first time he's done so as president.

The Supreme Court is clearing the way for California schools to tell parents if their children identify as transgender without getting the student’s approval, granting an emergency appeal from a conservative legal group.

Many in the Iranian American diaspora spent the weekend glued to their TVs, watching news of U.S. and Israeli bombs falling on Iran, some hoping for a brighter future for their homeland but terrified relatives would suffer harm.

The Supreme Court has sided with Republicans in ruling that the boundaries of the only GOP-held congressional district in New York City do not not need to be redrawn for the 2026 elections, despite a court ruling that the district is unfair to Black and Hispanic residents.

The Trump administration took more than 48 hours to make any live, public communication with the American people about why it had decided to go to war with Iran.

Moderate Democrats are pushing back on the party’s progressive energy.

Democrats stay mostly united against President Donald Trump, but the strikes on Iran are starting to reveal some splits in the party.

President Donald Trump is pushing back on criticism that he hasn’t done enough to explain why it was necessary to start a war with Iran now or to articulate his vision for an endgame to the escalating conflict.

A Republican lawmaker from Montana who served as interior secretary during President Donald Trump’s first administration says he will not seek reelection to a fifth term.

A House committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein labored for six months to question former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The White House says a red spot on President Donald Trump’s neck comes from a prescribed skin cream.

A judge is temporarily suspending the latest version of a Trump administration policy that requires members of Congress to provide a week’s notice before they can visit immigration detention facilities.

The Supreme Court seemed likely Monday to loosen a federal law that bars marijuana users from owning guns in a case that crossed typical political lines.

U.S. first lady Melania Trump is presiding over a U.N. Security Council meeting that will focus on children in conflict, one of her signature issues.

President Donald Trump says he was not pleased with the way that negotiations with Iran were proceeding.

President Donald Trump has recognized three U.S. Army soldiers with the Medal of Honor at the White House.

Some of the United States’ most important historical documents are beginning a first-of-its kind journey as part of the country’s 250th anniversary commemoration.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has spoken to widening concerns the U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran could spiral into a protracted regional conflict by declaring: “This is not Iraq.

The Trump administration and its allies in Congress are presenting a shifting new justification for the U.S. attack on Iran.

The war in the Middle East has spiraled further as Israel and the U.S. pounded Iran, while Tehran and its allies hit back.

The war in the Middle East spiraled further as Israel and the U.S. pounded Iran.

President Donald Trump has taken the United States into war with Iran despite decades of self-professed aversion to foreign entanglements, particularly in the Middle East, and repeated pledges to focus primarily on the Western Hemisphere with an “America first” agenda.

Three American service members have been killed and five others seriously wounded during the U.S. military’s attacks on Iran.

Trump administration officials told congressional staff in private briefings that U.S. intelligence did not suggest Iran was preparing to launch a preemptive strike against the U.S. That's according to three people familiar with Sunday's briefings who insisted on anonymity to discuss details that have not been made public.

Israel launched strikes on Iran while Tehran responded by firing drones and missiles at Jerusalem and U.S. military installations.

New Medicaid work requirements signed into law by President Donald Trump are meant to save money.

A heated U.S. Senate race in Texas is entering its final stretch before voters decide Tuesday who will be their party's nominee in November.

Saturday’s military operation against Iran shows the dramatic evolution in risk tolerance that President Donald Trump has made in a matter of months.

President Trump’s decision to strike Iran pulls him toward the kind of overseas conflict he once attacked.

A high-stakes dispute over how the U.S. military uses artificial intelligence has led the Pentagon to cancel its contract with rising AI star Anthropic.

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.

Democrats are banking on Tejano music star Bobby Pulido to help them win back Hispanic voters in a South Texas congressional district that favors Republicans.

Should marijuana users be able to own guns.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in a major attack on Iran launched by Israel and the United States, throwing the future of the Islamic Republic into doubt and raising the risk of regional instability.

Former President Joe Biden returned to South Carolina on Friday for a warm homecoming from the Democrats who resurrected his 2020 presidential campaign.

The Treasury Department says it has ended its collective bargaining agreement with unionized workers employed at the Internal Revenue Service.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris has endorsed Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in Texas’ Democratic Senate primary, giving Crockett a big boost as she faces concerns about electability.

The Pentagon will forbid members of the military from attending Columbia, Yale, Brown and other universities starting next school year amid a campaign to cut ties with institutions that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called “factories of anti-American resentment.”.

A prominent Hong Kong activist in exile in the U.S. says a court ruling back in Hong Kong to imprison her father for eight months has only made her more determined to fight for the territory and its people.

President Donald Trump says the United States is talking with Cuba and raised the possibility of a “friendly takeover” of the island without explaining what that means.

Former President Joe Biden flies commercially from Reagan National Airport and ends up stuck in the same delays as everyone else.

Democrats are growing more confident of winning a majority in the House in the November elections.

The first primaries of the 2026 election season will offer an early read on voter mood in President Donald Trump’s second term and on how both parties are adapting.

The Pentagon has made a deal with Scouting America that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says would maintain their century-old partnership but refocus the organization away from “woke” policies.

Former President Bill Clinton has finished his testimony before members of Congress for their investigation over convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Justice Department has filed a complaint to legally take ownership of a sanctioned tanker and nearly 2 million barrels of petroleum seized off the coast of Venezuela in December.

Democratic lawmakers say former President Bill Clinton has tried to answer every question during a deposition over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s “not happy” with the latest talks over Iran’s nuclear program but has indicated he'll give the negotiators more time to reach a deal to avert another war in the Middle East.

President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. agencies to stop using Anthropic technology after the company’s unusually public dispute with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safety.

A new Gallup poll shows that American sympathies in the Middle East have shifted dramatically toward the Palestinians after decades of overwhelming support for the Israelis.

U.S. stocks sank as Wall Street kept punishing companies that could become losers in the AI revolution.

President Donald Trump says he's “pretty much” made his decision on whom to endorse in Texas’ heated Republican Senate primary, but he still refuses to name his pick publicly.

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.”.

An estimated 32.6 million people have watched President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on television.

The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday it’s misleading for members of the House to say their package of aviation safety reforms would address the recommendations that her agency made in January to prevent another midair collision like the one last year near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people.

U.S. first lady Melania Trump will preside over a U.N. Security Council meeting in what the United Nations said Thursday would be a first.

The head of the Food and Drug Administration plans to start offering bonus payments to agency drug reviewers who complete their work ahead of the schedule.