Incoming first lady Melania Trump will be the subject of a new documentary directed by Brett Ratner and distributed by Amazon Prime Video.

Four years ago, then-President Donald Trump rallied his supporters to march to the U.S. Capitol and urged his vice president to stop the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden's victory.

New York’s new toll for drivers entering the center of Manhattan is starting up after it withstood years of political wrangling, a last-minute pause and a flurry of legal challenges.

President-elect Donald Trump made an appearance with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who was visiting his Mar-a-Lago club.

By blocking a Japanese company’s takeover of U.S. Steel, President Joe Biden says he is protecting good jobs in the American heartland.

Jimmy Carter was the first U_S_ president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa, declaring “the day of the so-called ugly American is over.”.

Jimmy Carter’s long public goodbye began in Georgia, where the 39th U.S. president’s life started more than 100 years ago.

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

The judge in President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money case has made a dramatic decision that could nevertheless bring the case to a muted end.

Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter are set to take place in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.

The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money case in New York dealt with a host of weighty, unprecedented questions before deciding Friday that the president-elect should be sentenced later this month for the crime of falsifying business records.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has vetoed part of a bill cast by state lawmakers as protecting the medical free speech of doctors and other health professionals.

President-elect Donald Trump has expressed frustration that flags will be flying at half-staff when he takes office later this month.

In an extraordinary turn, a judge has set President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case for Jan. 10 — little over a week before he’s due to return to the White House.

New Senate Majority Leader John Thune is kicking off the new session with a promise to preserve the filibuster, saying in his first floor speech as leader that his priority will be to “ensure the Senate stays the Senate.”.

Alcohol is a leading cause of cancer, a risk that should be clearly labeled on drinks Americans consume, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy proposed on Friday.

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

Virginia voters will begin the new year filling state Senate and House vacancies on Tuesday in a trio of special elections that could determine control of the narrowly divided chambers.

Most of the U.S. holds its major primary and general elections in even-numbered years, but there are a handful of places where competitive congressional, state and local-level contests will be happening in 2025.

Some transgender people worry President Joe Biden did not do enough to shield them from the torrent of Trump policies to come.

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.

A new poll finds that Republican voters are more confident in the accuracy of U.S. elections now that Donald Trump has won.

President Joe Biden has awarded the Medal of Honor to military recipients who displayed heroism and self-sacrifice in combat and the Medal of Valor to first responders who put their own lives at risk to save others.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has laughed off some unflattering comments aimed at him on social media in the past year, and had his teenage son translate what one barb meant.

Donald Trump is expected to hold a big Washington rally the day before he’s sworn in as the nation’s 47th president.

Mike Johnson is fighting for his political life, again.

Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee of California has always stood apart.

It was a decision that robbed hundreds of athletes of their once-in-a-lifetime chance at Olympic glory.

President Joe Biden has awarded the second-highest civilian medal to Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, leaders of the congressional investigation into the Capitol riot.

Former President Jimmy Carter was widely known as a man of faith, a born-again Christian who defined himself as a progressive evangelical.

President-elect Donald Trump says he’s planning to attend the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter.

Mayor-elect Joe Cobb officially takes office after a close win in the November election that had to go to a recount.

Chief Justice John Roberts issued a defense Tuesday of judicial independence, which he said is under threat from intimidation, disinformation and the prospect of public officials defying court orders.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on two groups linked to Russian and Iranian disinformation campaigns targeting this year's election.

The Dartmouth men’s basketball team has dropped its attempt to form a union.

A military appeals court has ruled against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's effort to throw out the plea deals reached for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants in the 9/11 attacks.

The use of mail ballots exploded in 2020 as states looked for ways to accommodate voters during the COVID-19 pandemic.

President-elect Donald Trump calls his Mar-a-Lago resort the "center of the universe.”.

Sarah McBride made history in Delaware, as the first openly transgender state senator in the United States.

U.S. Rep.-elect Sarah McBride will be sworn in as the first openly transgender member of Congress on Jan. 3.

Jimmy Carter helped expand democracy around the world long after he left the White House.

Funeral services honoring former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, will be held in Georgia and Washington, D.

Roanoke’s newest mayor and city council members were sworn in this afternoon.

Tributes to former President Jimmy Carter are pouring in from his small hometown of Plains, Georgia, and around the world.

A U.S. official says arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico in December are little changed from a month earlier.

Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president.

President-elect Donald Trump has endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson, providing crucial backing as the Louisiana Republican prepares for what is expected to be another contentious speakership race this week.

A federal appeals court has upheld a jury's finding in a civil case that Donald Trump sexually abused a columnist in an upscale department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

In a deeply partisan Congress, one group of lawmakers with a shared background is working in a bipartisan way to try to pass important legislation.

Jimmy Carter’s funeral will feature an interstate choreography of grief, ceremony and logistics that is characteristic of state funerals.

A moment of silence was held for former President Jimmy Carter before the Atlanta Falcons' game at the Washington Commanders.

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100.

Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old.

Republicans made claims about illegal voting by noncitizens a centerpiece of their 2024 campaign messaging.

President-elect Donald Trump appears to be siding with Elon Musk and his other backers in the tech industry as a dispute over immigration visas has divided his supporters.

A federal judge is signaling that Rudy Giuliani's contempt hearing next Friday might not end so well for the former New York City mayor and onetime personal lawyer for President-elect Donald Trump.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says her agency will need to start taking “extraordinary measures,” or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling, as early as January 14th, in a letter sent to congressional leaders Friday afternoon.

President Joe Biden has imposed sanctions on Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder of Georgia’s ruling political party.

An online spat between factions of Donald Trump’s supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in the president-elect’s political movement into public display.

The State Department says an American schoolteacher arrested in Russia on drug charges more than three years ago has been designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully detained.

New laws taking effect with the new year will affect Hollywood actors, social media stars and chatty motorists.

The minimum wage in our Commonwealth is set to increase at the start of the new year.

U.S. officials say they asked for — and got — the retraction of an independent monitor's warning of imminent famine in north Gaza.

Republicans in Congress plan to move quickly in their effort to overhaul the nation’s voting procedures, seeing an opportunity with control of the White House and both chambers of Congress.

A lot of Americans, after an intense presidential election campaign, are looking for a break in political news.

The fate of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet is still unclear after Republican senators spent much of December carefully dodging questions.

Former President Bill Clinton will be home for Christmas after being discharged from a Washington hospital where he was treated for the flu.

A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors.

Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington after developing a fever.

President-elect Donald Trump is decrying rising shipping fees Panama has imposed to use the Panama Canal.

The House Ethics Committee’s long-awaited report into Rep. Matt Gaetz documents a trove of salacious allegations of misconduct, including sex with an underage girl, that tanked the Florida Republican’s nomination to lead the Justice Department.

Victims’ families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions are sharing a range of emotions, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences.

First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal.

President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row.

That Donald Trump failed to achieve central goals in the government shutdown fight alongside Elon Musk seemed unimportant to many speakers and attendees at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest.

Donald Trump is suggesting that his new administration could try to regain control of the Panama Canal.

Decades after a former Chicago mayor pledged to extend transit to the city’s far South Side, the federal government is committing to the massive project just before President Joe Biden leaves office.

Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump, says she’s removing herself from consideration to be a Florida senator.

Mark Burnett, the power producer who helped reintroduce Donald Trump to a national television audience with “The Apprentice,” is being tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom in his upcoming administration.

One of the most turbulent sessions of Congress in the modern era is about to make way for the next one.

President Joe Biden has signed legislation that averts a government shutdown heading into Christmas.

The Washington Commanders' path to returning to nation's capital is clear after an on-again, off-again saga in Congress ended with a late reprieve.

A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of Supreme Court ethics details more luxury travel by Justice Clarence Thomas and urges Congress to establish a way to enforce a new code of conduct.

Thirty years after Florida required schools to teach African American history, how the subject is taught remains inconsistent across Florida classrooms, a review by The Associated Press has found.

The Senate has passed legislation to boost Social Security payments for millions of people.

Johnny Zuagar says he tried to hide his worries about a potential government shutdown from his three boys as he weighs how much to spend on Christmas presents.

President Donald Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk used his outsize influence on X to help kill a bipartisan funding proposal that would have prevented a government shutdown, spreading multiple false claims in the process.

President-elect Donald Trump is threatening to add the 27 countries that make up the European Union to the list of trade partners he'll place tariffs on — unless the group takes steps to import more U.S. goods.

President Joe Biden has secured the 235th judicial confirmation of his presidency.

With hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House has approved a new plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but dropped President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year.

Donald Trump seemed poised to inherit a relatively strong economy when he begins a second term in the White House in January.

Michigan Democrats are ending their final days in control of the state government bogged down with disunity and inaction.

President Joe Biden’s administration has started to withdraw pending regulations that won’t be finalized by the time he leaves office.

Justice Kyra Harris Bolden is the first Black woman to be elected to the Michigan Supreme Court.

A handful of prominent Democratic governors are quickly adjusting their approach to President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office in January.

The Poff Federal Building in Downtown Roanoke will soon have a new name, in honor of the life and legacy of civil rights lawyer Reuben Lawson.

A provision to transfer the land that is the site of the old RFK Stadium from the federal government to the District of Columbia is no longer included in Congress’ short-term spending bill that lawmakers are racing to pass before a government shutdown.

A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing the possibility of a federal government shutdown to the brink in Washington.

Elon Musk’s role in taking down a bipartisan budget deal shows his ascendance as a political force.

Washington Capitals and Wizards owner Ted Leonsis, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and other area leaders celebrated the start of an $800 million downtown arena renovation Thursday.