The confirmations of Benjamin Cheeks and Serena Murillo, expected to be the last of the year, brought the total number of ...

Of the senators heading for the exits, seven are retiring, three lost their reelection bids, one resigned, and two others ...

Common ground among Americans is shrinking by the minute. It's a challenge we are sadly less able to confront with Romney and ...

The Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act is designed to hold teenage treatment centers and care facilities accountable ...

Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown said during a recent floor debate that people who paid into Social Security for the ...

California voters did what was widely expected and elected Rep. Adam Schiff, a Jewish Democrat, in the senate race to replace the late Dianne Feinstein, another Jewish Democrat, who died while in ...

President Biden spent Christmas Eve signing new bills into law approving everything from the country’s official bird to ...

The slew of new laws comes a day after the president vetoed a separate bipartisan bill that would have created dozens of new federal judge posts, claiming it failed to "resolve key questions in the ...

Davis became co-chair of the project to make the bald eagle the national bird, while the National Eagle Center served as the ...

The 81-year-old congresswoman’s situation reanimated a debate about the health and mental acuity of aging elected officials, with many colleagues urging changes.

Oakland has been in political chaos since November's recall of former Mayor Sheng Thao, who was only on the job for two years ...