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Feb 15, 2026
Congress members said that President Trump's coveting of Greenland had left a mark, even as they expressed hope for a less bellicose approach to foreign relations.
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Feb 14, 2026
Speaking at Europe's largest security conference, she tied income inequality to the rise of authoritarians and offered a forceful rebuttal to President Trump's worldview. She also had some shaky moments.
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Feb 14, 2026
The round table reflects on a chaotic week of incompetence and meltdowns.
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Feb 14, 2026
The attorney general's behavior reveals a deeper rot in the American justice system.
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Feb 14, 2026
An upcoming Senate primary contest in Illinois, which is likely to pick the state's next senator, has centered on Democrats' future approach to federal immigration policy.
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Feb 13, 2026
Dynamic SRG repeatedly, and apparently unsuccessfully, asked the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to donate to House races, Justice Department records show.
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Feb 13, 2026
For many senators and House members, the job isn't what it used to be.
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Feb 13, 2026
Despite a deadlock over funding for the agency, lawmakers left town and left Democratic and White House negotiators to try to work out a deal in their absence.
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Feb 13, 2026
Despite a deadlock over funding for the agency, lawmakers left town and left Democratic and White House negotiators to try to work out a deal in their absence.
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Feb 13, 2026
Lawyers for Representative Nicole Malliotakis, Republican of New York, asked the Supreme Court to block a ruling that would redraw her district lines.
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Feb 12, 2026
In a moment of frayed trans-Atlantic relations, Speaker Mike Johnson abruptly canceled the House delegation to Europe's biggest annual security summit.
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Feb 12, 2026
After a heated Senate hearing that highlighted the partisan divide over immigration enforcement, Democrats voted to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
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Feb 12, 2026
Ms. Mejia, a political organizer, beat her main opponent in the New Jersey primary, Tom Malinowski, by a narrow margin after he was battered by negative ads from a pro-Israel group.
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Feb 12, 2026
Congress must stand firm against President Trump's assault on the rule of law.
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Feb 12, 2026
Judge Richard J. Leon found that attempts to discipline Mark Kelly for a video that warned against following illegal orders would violate the senator's First Amendment rights.
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Feb 12, 2026
Senate Democrats refused to move ahead with a spending bill needed to keep the Department of Homeland Security running because it lacked limits they have demanded on federal immigration agents.
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Feb 12, 2026
A crypto-backed super PAC plans to spend $1.5 million against Mr. Green, a member of the House Financial Services Committee who has expressed concerns about cryptocurrency.
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Feb 12, 2026
The measure had no path forward in the Senate, where Democrats are all but certain to block it and Republicans have said they will not try to skirt filibuster rules to ram it through.
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Feb 12, 2026
The program was meant to help hospitals provide for poor patients by offering drug savings. But critics say a Texas company has turned it into a big business, driving up costs for patients and insurers.
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Feb 12, 2026
Senator John Fetterman and Gov. Josh Shapiro do not get along. The bad blood goes back years.
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Feb 11, 2026
Six Republicans joined nearly all Democrats to end the national emergency President Donald Trump had declared to impose tariffs on imports from Canada.
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Feb 11, 2026
Kaif Gilani was fired from Brad Lander's House campaign after his social media history, which included praise for Hamas and virulent attacks on the police, emerged.
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Feb 11, 2026
Can Democrats win back working-class voters? These candidates are trying.
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Feb 11, 2026
Lawmakers say the Trump administration's secrecy around the funds parked in an overseas bank could lead to corruption, and that the arrangement skirts congressional oversight and the law.
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Feb 11, 2026
Republican leaders have blocked challenges to President Trump's trade war for a year, but dissent in their own ranks will force a vote.
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Feb 11, 2026
Her appearance comes as the department is under scrutiny over its handling of the Epstein files, its approach toward the shootings in Minneapolis and its move to prosecute six Democratic lawmakers.
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Feb 11, 2026
The rejection was a remarkable rebuke, suggesting that ordinary citizens did not believe that the lawmakers had committed any crimes.
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Feb 11, 2026
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi could face bipartisan skepticism over her handling of the documents.
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Feb 11, 2026
J.P. Cooney, a former top deputy to the special counsel Jack Smith, who led two prosecutions of President Trump, plans to seek election to a newly drawn district in Northern and Central Virginia.
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Feb 11, 2026
A collection of former civil servants are waging first-time campaigns this year. Some said that President Trump's attacks on the work force motivated them to run.
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Feb 10, 2026
Three Republicans joined Democrats in rejecting a bid by G.O.P. leaders to continue skirting a law that requires the House to vote promptly on measures challenging President Trump's tariffs.
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Feb 10, 2026
During a House congressional hearing, top immigration officials repeatedly declined to answer questions about the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota by federal agents.
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Feb 10, 2026
For the third time this Congress, G.O.P. leaders are seeking to effectively nullify a law that requires a quick House vote on a measure demanding an end to President Trump's tariffs.
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Feb 10, 2026
Federal records show that Jeffrey Epstein used donations and connections as he sought to gain college admission for young women in his orbit.
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Feb 10, 2026
Federal records show that Jeffrey Epstein used donations and connections as he sought to gain college admission for young women in his orbit.
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Feb 10, 2026
The Maine Republican is one of her party's most vulnerable senators, but she has held off Democratic challenges before.
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Feb 10, 2026
The Maine Republican is one of her party's most vulnerable senators, and her seat is crucial to Democratic hopes of retaking control of the chamber.
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Feb 10, 2026
Plus, Olympic medals are falling apart — again.
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Feb 09, 2026
The longtime Trump ally served four months in prison on contempt of Congress charges for refusing to testify to the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
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Feb 09, 2026
Trump has thrust us into a new political world, and Democratic voters want leaders who can adapt.
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Feb 09, 2026
Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, invoked her right against self-incrimination in an Oversight Committee deposition.
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Feb 09, 2026
Michael Gold, a reporter for The New York Times, describes the fight in Congress over funding the Department of Homeland Security, as Democrats push for restrictions on federal immigration agents.
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Feb 09, 2026
Revenues have increased for Goodwill NYNJ, which operates four stores in the five boroughs.
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Feb 09, 2026
The retiring congressman hopes his endorsement will carry Assemblyman Micah Lasher past a crowded primary field, including a Kennedy.
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Feb 08, 2026
Democrats' demands include that immigration officers be required to show visible identification and have judicial warrants when they enter private property to make arrests.
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Feb 08, 2026
A record number of senators running for governor reflects deep frustrations with the upper chamber.
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Feb 07, 2026
The former speaker, a prodigious fund-raiser and shrewd campaign strategist, seldom intervenes in primaries but has made an exception for a Kennedy before.
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Feb 07, 2026
The round table convenes to debate whether we need to worry about the midterms being free and fair.
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Feb 07, 2026
The round table convenes to debate whether we need to worry about the midterms being free and fair.
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Feb 06, 2026
The Democratic primary to replace Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey in Congress is still too close to call. Much of the advertising focused on opposition to the president and his immigration policies.
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Feb 06, 2026
Administration officials told the top Senate Democrat the president would release frozen funding for the Gateway project if the transportation hubs were renamed for him.
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Feb 06, 2026
Representative Mark Amodei of Nevada added his name to the growing list of Republicans planning to give up their seats as their party faces losses that could cost them the House.
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Feb 06, 2026
Administration officials told Senator Chuck Schumer that the president would release federal funds for the Hudson River Gateway project if New York's Penn Station and Washington Dulles International Airport were renamed after President Trump, according to four people familiar with the private conversations.
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Feb 06, 2026
Gov. Kathy Hochul received the Democratic nomination at the party's state convention on Friday, even as her running-mate selection drew some debate.
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Feb 06, 2026
House Republicans have scaled back a proposal to charge higher fees for the loans after opposition from veterans groups. But it still includes a higher fee for refinancings.
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Feb 06, 2026
The progressive lawmaker is taking a larger role in Democratic politics, supporting moderate candidates and helping drive the party's economic message. Now she is planning a major trip abroad.
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Feb 06, 2026
Two Democrats, Analilia Mejia and Tom Malinowski, were leading in a race for their party's nomination to replace Gov. Mikie Sherrill in the House.
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Feb 05, 2026
As they appeal a ruling blocking their redistricting efforts, the state's Democrats proposed redrawing districts in a way that would strongly favor them.
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Feb 05, 2026
Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to receive the Democratic nomination at the party's state convention on Friday, even as her running-mate selection has drawn some debate.
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Feb 05, 2026
With eight days until a deadline to keep the Department of Homeland Security running, bipartisan talks on reining in federal immigration agents' tactics appeared to sputter before they had even gotten underway.
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Feb 05, 2026
Get live results and maps from the 2026 New Jersey special primary election.
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Feb 05, 2026
A moderate Democrat from Indiana for 34 years, he chaired the House Foreign Affairs and Intelligence committees and helped investigate the Iran-contra scandal and the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Feb 05, 2026
President Trump froze a program to allow Afghans who had worked with American troops to come to the United States. Now Congress has quietly scrapped the visas, leaving little hope of reviving them.
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Feb 05, 2026
Katie Britt is uniquely positioned to reason with the Trump administration — when she chooses to speak up.
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Feb 05, 2026
Democrats say they will not support a spending bill to keep the Homeland Security Department running without new restrictions on federal agents.
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Feb 05, 2026
Democrats are tapping candidates with unusual résumés — a Tejano recording star, a smokejumper and a fourth-generation farmer — to compete in areas long seen as inhospitable.
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Feb 04, 2026
The state's Republican Party had asked the justices to step in and block the new congressional maps, which give an advantage to Democrats, before the midterms.
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Feb 04, 2026
Democrats' push to rein in federal agents, and Republican opposition, reflect opposite views of whether the deportation drive should be bound by standard law enforcement rules.
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Feb 04, 2026
Mr. Dunn, who rose to prominence for defending the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, will run for a hotly contested Southern Maryland seat.
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Feb 04, 2026
Senator John Cornyn, once seen as a potential Republican leader in his chamber, is now depending on wealthy party donors to survive a right-wing challenge.
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Feb 04, 2026
Bipartisan Senate and House packages, aimed at rewarding new construction and eliminating red tape, could bring significant changes to federal housing laws.
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Feb 03, 2026
The bill provides money for the Department of Homeland Security just through the end of next week, and the negotiations to curb immigration agents promise to be difficult.
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Feb 03, 2026
State Representative James Talarico used the word "mediocre" in connection with a former House member who is Black. The controversy has repercussions for a key contest.
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Feb 03, 2026
Approval of the measure kicked off what promises to be a difficult negotiation between Democrats and President Trump over their demands to rein in immigration agents.
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Feb 03, 2026
Republican leaders eked out enough votes to bring up a spending measure that would reopen the government and fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks.
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Feb 03, 2026
El expresidente Bill Clinton y la exsecretaria de Estado Hillary Clinton accedieron a declarar tras haberse resistido por semanas, días antes de que la Cámara de Representantes votara a favor de declararlos en desacato.
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Feb 02, 2026
Some hard-line House Republicans have balked at the agreement Senate Democrats struck with President Trump to fund the government, complicating its path to enactment.
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Feb 02, 2026
Julie Won, a New York City councilwoman, will face two other Democrats, one backed by the departing incumbent, Nydia Velázquez, and the other by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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Feb 02, 2026
First came a remarkable State Senate upset. Next up: two high-octane U.S. Senate primaries.
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Feb 02, 2026
Julie Won, a New York City councilwoman, will face two other Democrats, one backed by the departing incumbent, Nydia Velázquez, and the other by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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Feb 02, 2026
Some hard-line House Republicans have balked at the agreement Senate Democrats struck with President Trump to fund the government, complicating its path to enactment.
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Feb 02, 2026
Former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the ex-secretary of state, agreed to depositions they had long resisted days before the House was to vote to hold them in contempt.
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Feb 02, 2026
Some of the affected agencies announced sweeping furloughs, while others tapped reserve funds to get through what they expected to be a short shutdown.
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Feb 02, 2026
Some hard-line House Republicans have balked at the deal Senate Democrats struck with President Trump to fund the government, complicating its path to enactment.
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Feb 02, 2026
Bill Clinton agreed to an interview he had long resisted, but Representative James Comer, the Oversight Committee chairman, signaled he would go forward with holding the former president in contempt.
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Feb 02, 2026
A bipartisan spending deal couldn't clear Congress in time to prevent a lapse in federal funding for some departments. The House must pass it to fully reopen the government.
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Feb 01, 2026
Representative Mike Lawler, who has promised to hold several town halls as he seeks re-election, was repeatedly heckled by audience members in Rockland County.
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Feb 01, 2026
Representative Mike Lawler, who has promised to hold several town halls as he seeks re-election, was repeatedly heckled by audience members in Rockland County.
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Feb 01, 2026
A Democrat won a state legislative special election in a district that President Trump carried by 17 percentage points, unnerving Republicans in Texas and beyond.
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Jan 31, 2026
Get live results and maps from the Jan. 31, 2026 Texas special runoff elections.
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Jan 31, 2026
Amid national protests, the round table convenes to debate what anti-ICE tactics should look like.
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Jan 31, 2026
Get live results and maps from the Jan. 31, 2026 Texas special runoff elections.
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Jan 31, 2026
The president and the top Senate Democrat, who are often at each other's throats, agreed to try to keep the government open and to start talks on new limits on federal immigration agents.
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Jan 31, 2026
The House still must clear the legislation for President Trump's signature, but is not expected to return to Washington to do so before Monday.
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Jan 31, 2026
Amid national protests, the round table convenes to debate what anti-ICE tactics should look like.
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Jan 30, 2026
Democrats agreed to fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks while they negotiate with President Trump on restricting his immigration crackdown.
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Jan 30, 2026
Hard-right Republicans have criticized an agreement they see as capitulating to Democrats on their party's strongest issue: immigration.
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Jan 30, 2026
Track the latest polls in Texas's 18th Congressional District runoff.
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Jan 29, 2026
Democrats and the White House agreed to fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks while they negotiate restrictions on the president's immigration crackdown.
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Jan 29, 2026
Senate Democrats and a handful of Republicans voted to block a government spending package on Thursday. President Trump and Senate Democrats continued to negotiate to rein in federal agents enacting his immigration crackdown and avert a government shutdown.
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