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Feb 21, 2026
President Donald Trump has approved a request for federal assistance in response to the massive sewage spill along the Potomac River.
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Feb 21, 2026
A group of ex-members and veteran lawmakers have advanced an unusual lawsuit that could lead to larger salaries.
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Feb 21, 2026
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) has signed legislation that includes congressional redistricting maps that could favor Democrats 10-1 if voters pass a referendum.
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Feb 21, 2026
For a decade, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was arrested on Thursday, advocated globally for U.K. trade, cooking up deals that at times made his family cringe.
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Feb 21, 2026
Although many leading MAGA voices are quieter than they were in June, some foreign policy experts who have advocated a more limited approach have continued to raise the alarm.
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Feb 21, 2026
A pair of rulings on tariffs and National Guard deployment mark the justices' first major decisions against the president. More may be coming.
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Feb 20, 2026
The Republican-led House said Jesse Jackson cannot lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol. The NAACP criticized the decision.
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Feb 20, 2026
The nearly immediate removal of longtime litigator James W. Hundley continues a clash over control of one of the country's highest-profile prosecutor's offices.
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Feb 20, 2026
Federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia unanimously named an interim U.S. attorney, setting up a likely imminent clash with the Trump administration.
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Feb 20, 2026
Federal agents seized a phone, two laptops, a recorder, a portable hard drive and a Garmin watch in a search of reporter Hannah Natanson's home last month.
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Feb 20, 2026
President responds to Supreme Court ruling by announcing an immediate 10 percent global tariff under a different legal authority and warned that more drastic measures could follow.
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Feb 20, 2026
The ruling deals a major blow to his signature economic policy and represents a stinging political setback.
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Feb 20, 2026
The ruling deals a major blow to the president's signature economic policy and represents a stinging political setback.
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Feb 20, 2026
The ruling deals a major blow to his signature economic policy and represents a stinging political setback.
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Feb 20, 2026
Democrats criticized the appearance of the president on the headquarters of a department that has long prided itself on being independent from the White House.
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Feb 20, 2026
Federal agents seized a phone, two laptops, a recorder, a portable hard drive and a Garmin watch in a search of reporter Hannah Natanson's home last month.
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Feb 20, 2026
The Supreme Court will take up Trump-related cases in its new term, as well as cases dealing with gay and transgender issues and campaigns.
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Feb 20, 2026
The ruling deals a major blow to his signature economic policy and represents a stinging political setback.
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Feb 20, 2026
The Justice Department has struggled to meet White House demands to prosecute noncitizen voters as theories that President Trump has pushed in public fail to hold up.
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Feb 20, 2026
Efforts to prosecute noncitizen voters have been slowed by lack of evidence, officials say, while Trump aides push for a broader crackdown.
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Feb 20, 2026
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-New Hampshire) asked the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general to look into the impact of accusations that Renée Good and Alex Pretti were domestic terrorists.
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Feb 19, 2026
The president's announcement came after he rebuked his predecessor Barack Obama for saying that aliens were "real." Obama later said he was just guessing.
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Feb 19, 2026
Veterans groups had warned that the change would have disadvantaged veterans who need medication.
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Feb 19, 2026
Lawyers say Trump is sending migrants to Cameroon who originated elsewhere. AP freelancers, among others, were detained while reporting on the deportees.
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Feb 19, 2026
President Donald Trump's sparsely attended Board of Peace meeting set a mission to stabilize Gaza, but plans beyond that remain murky.
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Feb 19, 2026
Obama said last week that aliens are ‘real' before clarifying he was guessing. Trump did not specify what Obama said that was classified.
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Feb 19, 2026
The congressman from Texas, who is facing a tough primary battle, has denied having an affair.
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Feb 19, 2026
U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) said Thursday that Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger will deliver the Democratic response.
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Feb 19, 2026
The Vietnam War veterans, who later worked as U.S. diplomats, say that the arch would harm the experience of visiting nearby Arlington National Cemetery.
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Feb 19, 2026
The president is accustomed to defining a race. But some voters in Georgia's 14th District do not like being told what to do.
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Feb 19, 2026
Although the United States and ally Israel have a decisive military advantage over Iranian forces, there are ways for Tehran to make any attack painful, officials said.
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Feb 19, 2026
The Commission of Fine Arts voted unanimously to approve the nearly 90,000-square-foot building's design. A federal judge is weighing whether to halt the project.
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Feb 18, 2026
Wednesday's Black History Month event marked a continued defense of a president who has made racial grievance a hallmark of his political ascent.
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Feb 18, 2026
The self-described "paleo-Confederate" has argued that wives should submit to their husbands, women should be denied the vote and Christian enslavers were on "firm scriptural ground."
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Feb 18, 2026
The co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which rebuked CDC's response to the coronavirus pandemic, will oversee the nation's leading public health agency.
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Feb 18, 2026
Democrats in Illinois have accused the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the powerful pro-Israel organization, of meddling in competitive primary races.
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Feb 18, 2026
Despite President Donald Trump's opposition to annexation, Israel has taken steps to expand control over the West Bank that experts say may lead to seizure of territory.
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Feb 18, 2026
The Democratic governor of deep-red Kentucky will rebuke "how faith has been hijacked" by Donald Trump and other figures, his publisher says.
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Feb 17, 2026
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) said Tuesday that Rep. Randy Fine (R-Florida) is "an Islamophobic, disgusting and unrepentant bigot."
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Feb 17, 2026
Remarks by a top administration official appeared to be aimed at dispelling skepticism of its assertions, as President Donald Trump vows to restart U.S. tests.
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Feb 17, 2026
The Supreme Court will begin using software to scan litigants' filings to identify justices' potential conflicts of interest.
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Feb 17, 2026
Chamberlain Harris, a 26-year-old White House aide and the president's longtime executive assistant, is set to be sworn in Thursday.
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Feb 17, 2026
A former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., he launched two historic presidential campaigns while spreading a message of hope and resilience: "I am — somebody."
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Feb 17, 2026
Col. David Butler, who had been selected by senior Army leaders for promotion to brigadier general, will instead retire, officials said.
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Feb 17, 2026
Those months revealed many things about America, not all as uplifting as the spirit that propelled the civil rights leader to second place in the Democratic presidential primary.
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Feb 17, 2026
The obstacles he faced — including those from his own party's establishment — were overt and subtle.
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Feb 17, 2026
A number of prominent figures have stepped down or are facing investigations after their communications with Jeffrey Epstein and his former longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, were released last month.
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Feb 17, 2026
As a civil rights activist, he joined the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, and Memphis. He later launched two historic presidential campaigns.
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Feb 16, 2026
President Donald Trump said the federal government would help with an incident that poured 200 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River.
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Feb 16, 2026
A GOP-appointed federal judge in Pennsylvania has ordered the Trump administration to restore displays about slavery to a George Washington site in Philadelphia.
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Feb 16, 2026
A GOP-appointed federal judge in Pennsylvania has ordered the Trump administration to restore displays about slavery to a George Washington site in Philadelphia.
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Feb 16, 2026
The former president appeared to confirm decades-old conspiracy theories. Lawmakers say Barack Obama is simply saying what many Americans already believe.
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Feb 16, 2026
Three GOP candidates, all former McConnell interns, are keeping their distance as they seek to align with Trump.
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Feb 16, 2026
Three GOP candidates, all former McConnell interns, are keeping their distance as they seek to align with President Donald Trump.
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Feb 16, 2026
Three GOP candidates, all former interns for Mitch McConnell, are keeping their distance as they seek to align with President Donald Trump.
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Feb 15, 2026
A 21st-century-record number of seats are opening, and races will be raucous and crowded, reflecting both parties' ideological, stylistic and generational tensions.
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Feb 15, 2026
A 21st-century-record number of seats are opening, and races will be raucous and crowded, reflecting both parties' ideological, stylistic and generational tensions.
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Feb 15, 2026
Advisers had been encouraging the president to sound more empathetic toward struggling Americans. But as some bright spots emerge, the messaging has shifted.
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Feb 14, 2026
Some area golfers say the president's ambitions for East Potomac Golf Links could put low-cost entry points to the game out of reach.
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Feb 14, 2026
At the Munich Security Conference, the secretary of state stressed cultural and historical ties but also slammed European trade and border policies and the U.N.
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Feb 14, 2026
In several states and swing districts, House Democrats have nomination contests that could prove harmful.
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Feb 14, 2026
Democrats refused to fund the department without new restrictions on federal immigrations agents.
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Feb 13, 2026
The planned 90,000-square-foot project would represent the most significant change to the White House grounds in decades and is advancing even as it is challenged in court and questioned on Capitol Hill.
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