House Republican unveil bill to avoid shutdown. Senate Democrats say they're wasting precious time
House Republicans have unveiled legislation to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of the month.
Senate passes bill to protect kids online and make tech companies accountable for harmful content
The Senate has passed legislation designed to protect children from dangerous online content.
Pennsylvania congressman chosen to lead House task force investigating Trump assassination attempt
Republican Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania will lead a House task force charged with investigating the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.
House Republicans vote to rebuke Kamala Harris over administration's handling of border policy
House Republicans are moving quickly to emphasize Vice President Kamala Harrisโs role in the Biden administrationโs handling of the U.S. border with Mexico.
In fiery speech to Congress, Netanyahu vows 'total victory' in Gaza and denounces US protesters
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged in a scathing speech to Congress to achieve โtotal victoryโ against Hamas and criticized American opponents of the war in Gaza as โidiots.โ.
Republican leaders urge colleagues to steer clear of racist and sexist attacks on Harris
Republican leaders are warning party members against using overtly racist and sexist attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris as they and former President Donald Trumpโs campaign scramble to adjust to the reality of a new Democratic rival less than four months before Election Day.
Senate to consider bills that aim to protect children and teenagers online
The Senate will consider legislation this week that aims to protect children from dangerous online content, moving forward with what could become the first sweeping new regulation of the tech industry in decades.
Netanyahu is in Washington at a fraught time for Israel and the US. What to know about his visit
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuโs visit to Washington this week is looming as a particularly fraught one between two allies.
GOP threatened to sue over November ballot if Biden dropped out. Experts call that 'ridiculous'
Even before President Joe Bidenโs withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race, allies of former President Donald Trump floated the possibility of suing to block Democrats from having anyone other than Biden on the ballot in November.
Donald Trump enters Republican convention hall with a bandaged ear and gets a hero's welcome
Former President Donald Trump has appeared triumphantly at the Republican National Conventionโs opening night with a bandage over his right ear.
What to know about Trump assassination attempt and the investigation into the shooting
Authorities want to know how a shooter was able to get on top of a roof so close to where former President Donald Trump was speaking and open fire.
House passes GOP bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote, boosting election-year talking point
The House has passed a bill requiring proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration.
House Republicans unite on spending cuts to non-defense programs, but Senate roadblock awaits
House Republicans are off to a quicker, more united start this year when it comes to funding the federal government, passing four of 12 annual appropriations bills before the end of June compared to zero at this time last year, when the new majority got off to a rocky start.
The White House wants $4 billion to rebuild Key Bridge in Baltimore and respond to other disasters
The White House is seeking roughly $4 billion in additional emergency funding from Congress for costs related to the collapse and repair of the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore and to respond to other disasters that have occurred around the U.S. in recent months.
Democrats wrestle with whether to attend Netanyahu's address to Congress as many plan to boycott
The last time Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the U.S. Congress, nearly 60 Democrats skipped his speech nine years ago.
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Colorado's state primaries
Coloradoโs congressional delegation faces a reshuffling in new week's state primaries after a retirement, resignation and one relocation have ensured that at least a third of the stateโs population will have new representation in Washington next year.
Many Senate Republicans were done with Trump after Jan. 6. Now they want him back in the White House
After the 2020 election, many Republican senators distanced themselves from Donald Trump.
Speaker Johnson says House will go to court for Biden audio after Justice Dept. refused to prosecute
Speaker Mike Johnson says the House will go to court to enforce the subpoena against Attorney General Merrick Garland for access to President Joe Bidenโs special counsel audio interview.
Cheers, cake and a fist-bump from GOP as Trump returns to Capitol Hill in a first since Jan. 6 riot
Donald Trump has made a triumphant return to Capitol Hill to meet with House and Senate Republicans for the first time since the Jan. 6, 2021 attack.
House votes to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for withholding Biden audio
The House has voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio of President Joe Bidenโs interview in his classified documents case.
Speaker Johnson appoints two Trump allies to a committee that handles classified intelligence
House Speaker Mike Johnson is appointing two far-right Republicans to the powerful House Intelligence Committee.
California Republican takes oath of office to complete term of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
Republican Vince Fong of California has been sworn into Congress after winning a special election to complete the remainder of the term of deposed former U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Republicans join Trump's attacks on justice system and campaign of vengeance after guilty verdict
Republicans in Congress are embracing Donald Trumpโs strategy of blaming the U.S. justice system after his historic guilty verdict.
Congressional leaders invite Israel's Netanyahu to deliver an address at the Capitol
Congressional leaders have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver an address a the U.S. Capitol.
US Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas fights off challenge from gun-rights activist in GOP runoff
Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas has won his primary over a gun-rights activist who forced the border congressman into a runoff and threatened to unseat a House incumbent.
The 'Appeal to Heaven' flag evolves from Revolutionary War symbol to banner of the far right
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is embroiled in a second flag controversy in as many weeks, this time over a banner that in recent years has come to symbolize Christian nationalism and the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
Election deniers moving closer to GOP mainstream, report shows, as Trump allies fill Congress
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 Bidenโs 2020 victory.
Noncitizen voting, already illegal in federal elections, becomes a centerpiece of 2024 GOP messaging
In recent months, the specter of people who aren't American citizens and are voting in the United States has become a rallying cry for Republicans.
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Kentucky's primaries
All of Donald Trumpโs top opponents for the Republican presidential nomination dropped out of the race weeks ago but will be back together on Kentuckyโs primary ballot.
House Republicans ditch their day jobs to stand with Trump, while legislating languishes
Leaving Washington behind, prominent far-right House Republicans who have pushed this Congress into chaos showed up at Donald Trumpโs hush money trial.
Speaker Mike Johnson assails Trump's felony trial in remarkable visit outside courthouse
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is assailing the hush money trial case against Donald Trump as a "sham," the highest-ranking Republican to show up at court and attack the U.S. justice system.
Republican group takes rare step of targeting GOP incumbent who voted to oust McCarthy
A political action committee that helps Republicans get elected to Congress is doing the unusual โ spending more than $450,000 to defeat a GOP incumbent.
America's debt tops $34 trillion, but a commission to address it appears dead in Congress
A promising start has given way to challenging political realities for supporters of a bipartisan commission to tackle the federal governmentโs growing debt challenges.
House Speaker Mike Johnson survived a motion to vacate. Here's why his job is far from safe
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.
Failure to oust Speaker 'MAGA Mike' Johnson shows strength and weakness of his alliance with Trump
House Speaker Mike Johnson has a survived an attempt by far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to remove him from office.
House rejects Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's effort to remove Speaker Mike Johnson from office
Hardline Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has tried and failed to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Police clear pro-Palestinian protest camp and arrest 33 at DC campus as mayor's hearing is canceled
Republicans are welcoming a police crackdown that cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University and led to the arrests of 33 protesters.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Speaker Johnson search for offramp as vote on his ouster simmers
Embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson and far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have met for a second day at the Capitol as they try to figure out an off-ramp to her threat for a vote on the motion to remove him from office.
Hakeem Jeffries isn't speaker yet, but the Democrat may be the most powerful person in Congress
Without wielding the gavel or holding a formal job laid out in the Constitution, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries might very well be the most powerful person in Congress right now.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene vows to force a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she'll call a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Louisiana won't immediately get a new majority-Black House district after judges reject it
A new Louisiana congressional map giving the state a second majority-Black House district has been rejected by a panel of federal judges.
House Republicans launch investigation into federal funding for universities amid campus protests
House Republicans are investigating the federal funding for universities where students have protested the Israel-Hamas war.
Democrats say they will save Speaker Mike Johnson's job if Republicans try to oust him
House Democrats will vote to save Speaker Mike Johnsonโs job should some Republican lawmakers seek to remove him from the position, avoiding a repeat of when eight Republicans joined with Democrats to oust his predecessor, former Rep. Kevin McCarthy.
US postpones decision on aid to Israeli army battalion accused of abuses against Palestinians
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. has determined that an Israeli military unit committed grave human-rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank before the war in Gaza.
A look at the protests of the war in Gaza that have emerged at US colleges
Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up at many college campuses after the arrest of demonstrators at Columbia University.
To pass Ukraine aid, 'Reagan Republican' leaders in Congress navigated a party transformed by Trump
Providing Ukraine with weapons and other U.S. aid as it fends off a Russian invasion is rooted in the earliest and most formative political memories of the two top Republicans in Congress.
Biden says the US is rushing weaponry to Ukraine as he signs a $95 billion war aid measure into law
President Joe Biden says he's immediately rushing badly needed weaponry to Ukraine now that he's signed into law a $95 billion war aid measure that also includes assistance for Israel, Taiwan and other allies.
Dozens arrested on California campus after students in Texas detained as Gaza war protests persist
Police began peacefully arresting pro-Palestinian student protesters at the University of Southern California Wednesday evening without incident.
Pentagon set to send $1 billion in new military aid to Ukraine once Biden signs bill
U.S. officials say the Pentagon is poised to send $1 billion in new military aid to Ukraine now that the Senate has approved long-awaited legislation to fund the weapons Kyiv needs to stall gains made by Russia.
Senate overwhelmingly passes aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan with big bipartisan vote
The Senate has passed $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden after months of delays and debate over how involved the United States should be in foreign wars.
Biden will send Ukraine air defense weapons, artillery once Senate approves, Zelenskyy says
President Joe Biden has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the U.S. will send badly needed air defense weaponry once the Senate approves a massive national security aid package that includes $60 billion for Ukraine.
Biden avoids a further Mideast spiral as Israel and Iran show restraint. But for how long?
President Joe Biden can perhaps breathe a bit easier given that Israel and Iran seem to have stepped back for now from tipping the Middle East into all-out war.
The House passes billions in aid for Ukraine and Israel after months of struggle. Next is the Senate
The House has approved a $95 billion package of foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies after months of turmoil on Capitol Hill.
Seeking 'the right side of history,' Speaker Mike Johnson risks his job to deliver aid to Ukraine
Staring down a decision so consequential it could alter the course of history -- but also end his own career -- House Speaker Mike Johnson prayed for guidance.
Ukraine, Israel aid advances in rare House vote as Democrats help Republicans push it forward
The House has pushed a $95 billion national security aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies closer to passage.
After Congress finally does pass new funding, this is how the US can rush weapons to Ukraine
The Pentagon can get weapons moving to Ukraine quickly once Congress passes a long-delayed aid bill.
Democrats weigh prospect of helping Johnson save his job as House speaker
Some Democrats are entertaining the prospect of helping House Speaker Mike Johnson save his job should Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia force a vote seeking his ouster.
House leaders toil to advance Ukraine and Israel aid. But threats to oust speaker grow
House congressional leaders are toiling on a delicate, bipartisan push towards weekend votes to approve a $95 billion package of foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as well as several other national security policies.
What's inside the $95 billion House package focused on aiding Ukraine and Israel
Speaker Mike Johnson has unveiled a long-awaited package of bills that will provide military aid to Ukraine and Israel, replenish U.S. weapons systems and give humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza.
Pentagon leaders press Congress for Ukraine funding, saying battlefield situation is dire
Pentagon leaders are telling Congress that Ukraine and Israel both desperately need the military weapons that are being held up by Congressโ failure to pass a funding package.
Houseโs Ukraine, Israel aid package gains Biden's support as Speaker Johnson fights to keep his job
President Joe Biden says that he strongly supports a proposal from Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
Senate rejects impeachment articles against Mayorkas, ending trial against Cabinet secretary
The Senate has dismissed all impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, ending the House Republican push to remove the Cabinet secretary from office over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border and ending his trial before arguments even began.
Facing a Republican revolt, House Speaker Johnson's plan for US aid to Ukraine, allies uncertain
House Speaker Mike Johnson has pushed back against mounting Republican anger over his proposed U.S. aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other allies.
House Republicans send Mayorkas impeachment articles to the Senate, forcing a trial
House impeachment managers have walked two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas across the Capitol to the Senate, forcing senators to convene a trial.
Noncitizen voting isn't an issue in federal elections, regardless of conspiracy theories. Here's why
Former President Donald Trump is turning to one of his favorite themes, the specter of immigrants improperly voting in federal elections.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is negotiating with White House to advance Ukraine aid
House Speaker Mike Johnson is negotiating with the White House as he prepares for the treacherous task of advancing wartime funding for Ukraine and Israel through the House.
Trump gives support to embattled Speaker Mike Johnson at pivotal Mar-a-Lago meet
Donald Trump has given his support to embattled House Speaker Mike Johnson during a visit to the Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
House passes reauthorization of key US surveillance program after days of upheaval over changes
The U.S. House has passed a bill to reauthorize and reform a key U.S. government surveillance tool without including broad restrictions on how the FBI uses this crucial program to search for Americansโ data.
House Speaker Mike Johnson negotiating with White House to advance Ukraine aid
House Speaker Mike Johnson is negotiating with the White House as he prepares for the treacherous task of advancing wartime funding for Ukraine and Israel through the House.
Speaker Johnson to meet with Trump, offers Marjorie Taylor Greene advisory role as own job teeters
With his job on the line, House Speaker Mike Johnson is dashing to Florida to meet with Donald Trump this week.
Conservative revolt in the House blocks effort to reauthorize a key US spy tool
A bill that would reauthorize a crucial national security surveillance program has been blocked by a conservative revolt, pushing the prospects of final passage into uncertainty amid a looming deadline.
Ukraine will be outgunned by Russia 10 to 1 in weeks without US help, top Europe general says
The top general for U.S. forces in Europe has told Congress that Ukraine will be outgunned 10 to one by Russia within a matter of weeks if Congress does not find a way to approve sending more ammunition and weapons to Kyiv soon.
House to delay sending Mayorkas impeachment articles to Senate
Speaker Mike Johnson will not send the Houseโs articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate this week as previously planned.
GOP's Marjorie Taylor Greene delivers fresh threats of ousting Speaker Johnson in scathing rebuke
Hard-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is escalating her criticism of House Speaker Mike Johnson and threatening his ouster.
Mayorkas impeachment trial set to start in Senate next week, but may be over before it starts
House Republicans will delay bringing their case against Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate until next week, two months after impeaching the Homeland Security secretary.
Some of Trump's allies in Congress already support his 2025 ideas on deportations and Jan. 6 pardons
Donald Trump is campaigning on promises of mass deportations and of pardons for those convicted in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, and his ideas are being met with little pushback by a new era of Republicans in Congress.
House Speaker Mike Johnson will send Mayorkas impeachment to the Senate next month
House Speaker Mike Johnson will send articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate shortly after Congress returns to Washington next month.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is committed to advancing Ukraine aid. But it will be a difficult task
House Speaker Mike Johnson has sat on a funding package that would send desperately needed ammunition and weaponry to Ukraine for over a month.
Biden signs $1.2 trillion funding package after Senate's early-morning passage ended shutdown threat
President Joe Biden has signed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills that Congress just passed, ending the threat of a potential partial government shutdown.
What's next now that Speaker Mike Johnson is facing a motion to vacate from Marjorie Taylor Greene
Barely six months into the job, House Speaker Mike Johnson is at risk of the same conservative revolt that took down his predecessor.
Rep. Mike Gallagher says he's resigning early, leaving House Republicans with thinnest of majorities
Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican who has spearheaded House pushback against the Chinese government, says he will resign from the House.
Senate passes $1.2 trillion funding package in early morning vote, ending threat of partial shutdown
The Senate has passed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills that pushes any new threats of a government shutdown into the fall.