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The Senate appeared Wednesday to be on the verge of going home for the holidays without passing an emergency war funding package.

FBI Director Christopher Wray delivered a full-throated defense of a powerful spy authority on Tuesday, invoking the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and warning lawmakers that a watered-down surveillance program could leave the agency paralyzed to respond to threats. “What could anybody possibly say to victims’ families if there was…

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas bowed out of a Jan. 6-related case at the center of a congressional committee’s power to investigate.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein's death creates several key committee vacancies and means California's Democratic governor must make a decision.

After pleading not guilty to a federal indictment, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J. will face Senate colleagues Thursday who urged him to resign.

Talk of a renewed push on 'Dreamers' legislation was tempered with realism about long-standing political gridlock after a court ruling.

Justice Alito's recent comments on congressional authority to regulate the Supreme Court started a flurry of conversation among experts.

The Supreme Court backed the power of state courts Tuesday in a dispute over North Carolina's congressional map.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s arraignment Tuesday drew a sharper line between allies of the former president willing to use the power of their office to defend him and Republican lawmakers who want to stay out of the way of a historic federal prosecution.