Next week, Congress could begin debating a bill to overhaul college sports, amid uncertainty from recent Democratic election victories.
The Justice Department has failed to secure a grand jury indictment against a former White House staffer who testified against President Donald Trump before a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection.
A package of bills aiming to strengthen penalties for criminal sexual conduct convictions in Michigan passed in the state House of Representatives on Wednesday.
The 48-year-old has previous convictions for making threats toward former U.S. President George W. Bush and former U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway.
The Bhumjaithai party of Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has taken a commanding lead in Thailand’s general election.
The Michigan Senate approved Senate Bill 495 and House Bill 4141, aiming to limit student cell phone use during instructional time in schools.
Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon has announced her candidacy for the Florida U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Ashley Moody in the 2026 election.
The big story of the upcoming midterm elections will be the fight over which party will control the U.S. House of Representatives during the last half of President Donald Trump's second term in office.
Big 12 Commission Brett Yormark says legislation currently stalled in Congress is needed to regulate college athletics and put a stop to what he essentially calls uncapped spending for name, image and likeness in football.
The Supreme Court has indicated a willingness to limit race-based districts under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
Americans' routine interactions with the federal government this week are increasingly being met with partisan messaging.
Members of Congress are taking steps to tighten their own security as the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has deeply shaken lawmakers who were already concerned for their safety.
The House declined late Wednesday to punish one of its own over commentary in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
California voters will decide in a November special election whether to approve a redrawn congressional map designed to help Democrats win five more U.S. House seats next year.
Australia’s Parliament has resumed for the first time since the Labor Party's historic majority win in May.
Congressional Democrats are grappling with how to conduct oversight of the Trump administration after some colleagues were arrested and face charges for attempting to observe the administration's conduct.
Work requirements for Medicaid recipients, food assistance cuts and other measures in the budget passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would rearrange the U.S. social safety net.
Stocks drifted to a mixed close on Wall Street in what has been a rocky week because of worries coming out of the bond market about the U.S. government’s mounting debt.
The District of Columbia's non-voting delegate in the House of Representatives is hailing President Donald Trump’s support for a budget fix that would prevent immediate financial disaster for the city.
Australians will go to the polls on May 3 with high costs of living and a shortage of housing key issues likely weighing against the government.
The Senate has swiftly approved legislation that would allow the District of Columbia to keep its budget intact.
Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole new states.
When Fargo voters approved a unique local election system in 2018, their goal was to choose candidates with broader support to lead North Dakota’s largest city.
President Donald Trump is heading to Capitol Hill this week to deliver a speech to Congress.
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has asked the Supreme Court to void her impeachment and block a Senate trial that could remove her from office.
Philippine government investigators have filed criminal complaints including sedition against Vice President Sara Duterte over her public threat to have the president assassinated if she herself was killed in an escalating political storm.
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.
President Joe Biden has vetoed a once-bipartisan effort to add 66 new federal district judgeships.
Democratic House Speaker Joe Tate of Detroit presided over an empty House chamber before adjourning Wednesday.
The House has passed what was once a bipartisan effort to expand the number of federal district trial court judgeships across the country.
A group led by left-wing activists has filed a second impeachment complaint against the Philippine vice president over her alleged misuse of government funds and demanded that she be permanently barred from holding public office.
Philippine police officials have filed criminal complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte and her security staff for allegedly assaulting authorities and disobeying orders in a recent altercation in Congress.
The U.S. House passed legislation that would give the Treasury Department unilateral authority to strip the tax-exempt status of nonprofits it claims support terrorism.
Legislation for the world's first legal ban on children under 16 using social media has been introduced in Australia's Parliament.
The Australian government's plan to ban children from social media to protect them from harm has won almost universal political support.
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries crisscrossed Southern California over the weekend as his party works to wrest control of the U.S. House from Republicans.
The top U.N. official in Libya is warning that the political, military and security situation in the oil-rich north African country has deteriorated “quite rapidly” and without renewed political talks leading to a unified government and elections there will be greater instability.
The South Dakota Supreme Court has reversed a judge's dismissal of a lawsuit seeking to remove an abortion rights initiative from the November ballot.
Republican Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania will lead a House task force charged with investigating the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.
The mood on Capitol Hill has turned grim as Democrats wrestled over President Joe Biden’s reelection.
An anti-abortion group in South Dakota has filed a lawsuit to block an abortion rights measure from the November ballot.
The MacArthur Foundation will let loose another $100 million to a single project in the third installation of its global 100&Change competition, which for the first time requires applicants to address diversity, equity, and inclusion issues, the foundation announced Wednesday.
As Donald Trump makes a comeback bid to return to power, Republicans in Congress have become even more likely to cast doubts on President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.
The Supreme Court has ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander.
Democrats joined a majority of Republicans on Wednesday to save Speaker Mike Johnson from an attempt by GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to remove him from the job.
Connecticut lawmakers are taking their first steps toward tightening absentee ballot laws since video last year captured people stuffing reams of ballots into collection boxes in Bridgeport, the state's most populous city.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she'll call a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson.
The House has passed legislation that would ban TikTok in the United States if the popular social media platform’s China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake within a year.
Legislation that could ban TikTok if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake has won a major boost as House Republicans included it in a package of bills that would send U.S. aid to Ukraine and Israel.
Michigan Democrats hope to restore their slim majority in the state House of Representatives when voters fill two vacant seats in suburban Detroit.
Hard-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is escalating her criticism of House Speaker Mike Johnson and threatening his ouster.
A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Opinion Research finds that while Americans say they respect the Constitution’s checks and balances and don’t want a president to have too much power, that view shifts if the candidate of their party wins the presidency.
Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he’s going to put together an investor group to buy TikTok after the House passed a bill that would ban the popular video app in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake.
The House has approved legislation that would ban TikTok if its Beijing-based parent company doesn’t divest from the popular social media platform, escalating the fight over the hot-button issue.
Republicans in Iowa’s House of Representatives have approved a bill that would criminalize the death of an “unborn person” — over Democrats’ concerns about how it might impact in vitro fertilization.
Congress has passed another short-term spending measure that would keep one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22.
A fiery debate over public health and personal rights has gripped Puerto Rico as legislators clash with medical experts.
Diversity initiatives would be defunded or banned from universities and other public institutions under a slate of bills pending in Republican-led legislatures, with some lawmakers counting on the issue resonating with voters in this election year.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says that U.S. Republican senators should be “ashamed” for leaving about $60 billion in wartime aid for Ukraine in limbo in a recent vote.
The House has failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he is “totally focused on the work” that his agency does and is not distracted by politics.
Puerto Rico legislators are holding a public hearing on a bill that seeks to prohibit discrimination against certain hairstyles in the racially diverse U.S. territory, sparking a heated debate.
Taylor Swift is adding one more accolade to her list of accomplishments this year: a resolution recognizing 2023 as the Taylor Swift era in her home state of Pennsylvania.
The House has voted to censure Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman for triggering a fire alarm in a U.S. Capitol office building when the chamber was in session.
North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry won't seek reelection to the U.S. House next year after all.
George Santos is gone from the House, but his name is certain to pop up in key congressional races across New York next year.
The House has voted to expel Republican Rep. George Santos of New York following a blistering ethics report on his conduct that included converting campaign donations for his own use.
Survivors of the harmful morning sickness drug thalidomide were in the public gallery when Australia’s Parliament made a national apology for what was described as one of the darkest chapters in Australia’s medical history.
Australia's immigration minister says three murderers are among 81 foreigners recently released after the High Court ruled their indefinite detention in migrant centers was unconstitutional.
Australia's immigration minister says 80 people including convicted criminals who are considered dangerous have been released from Australian migrant detention centers since the High Court ruled last week that their indefinite detention wis unconstitutional.
