Political leaders in Washington are spending much of their energy these days blaming the other party for what could be a significant government shutdown.

Republican colleagues call Steve Scalise a fighter, but the nominee for House speaker may be in for a brawl.

The day before he was ousted, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was doing what he loved — stopping to greet tourists at the Capitol and gushing over its place in American democracy.

Lessons learned from the debt ceiling standoff more than a decade ago are rippling through Washington.

Democrats have a sales job of their own this summer.

The national Republican Party has increasingly embraced former President Donald Trump's false claims of fraud in the 2020 election.

A purple ring — call it the flip zone — emerges through the suburbs. But the midterm elections of 2018 showed that the flip zone has moved in the era of President Donald Trump, with dramatic consequences. To hold the White House and control of the Senate, he and his party must stop the flip zone from moving farther out again. In 2018 in Milwaukee, the flip zone moved out less than half a mile as Wisconsin elected a Democratic governor. — In Atlanta, the flip zone was nearly 24 miles out, at 434 households per square mile.