Carl Hulse is the chief Washington correspondent for The Times, primarily writing about Congress and national political races ...

Maine’s Daira Smith-Rodriguez (D) suspended her Senate campaign Thursday and threw her support behind Gov. Janet Mills (D) ...

Limited government requires not only laws but also the ambition of the political branches to check each other.

A documentary proof-of-citizenship requirement for voting in U.S. elections hasn’t been able to pass Congress and has been ...

On the campaign trail, President Trump vowed to designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and go after them ...

While leaders in Europe are grappling with overtourism at popular sites, tourism officials in the United States are ...

Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn portrays himself an “Independent," but election filings show ties to Democrat power ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed a critical-minerals deal at ...

Brazil's finance minister said the government plans to send Congress two separate bills with fiscal measures on Tuesday, ...

The speaker’s decision to hold the House in an indefinite hiatus during the shutdown is his latest move to diminish the role ...

Government shutdown 2025 is now the second longest in history, but how much longer is it expected to last? See the odds on ...

The stopgap bill, which would extend government funding until Nov. 21, was defeated after a 49-45 vote. It required 60 votes ...