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Feb 04, 2026
Mr. Dunn, who rose to prominence for defending the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, will run for a hotly contested Southern Maryland seat.
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Feb 04, 2026
Senator John Cornyn, once seen as a potential Republican leader in his chamber, is now depending on wealthy party donors to survive a right-wing challenge.
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Feb 04, 2026
Bipartisan Senate and House packages, aimed at rewarding new construction and eliminating red tape, could bring significant changes to federal housing laws.
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Feb 03, 2026
The bill provides money for the Department of Homeland Security just through the end of next week, and the negotiations to curb immigration agents promise to be difficult.
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Feb 03, 2026
State Representative James Talarico used the word "mediocre" in connection with a former House member who is Black. The controversy has repercussions for a key contest.
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Feb 03, 2026
Approval of the measure kicked off what promises to be a difficult negotiation between Democrats and President Trump over their demands to rein in immigration agents.
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Feb 03, 2026
Republican leaders eked out enough votes to bring up a spending measure that would reopen the government and fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks.
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Feb 03, 2026
El expresidente Bill Clinton y la exsecretaria de Estado Hillary Clinton accedieron a declarar tras haberse resistido por semanas, días antes de que la Cámara de Representantes votara a favor de declararlos en desacato.
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Feb 02, 2026
Some hard-line House Republicans have balked at the agreement Senate Democrats struck with President Trump to fund the government, complicating its path to enactment.
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Feb 02, 2026
Julie Won, a New York City councilwoman, will face two other Democrats, one backed by the departing incumbent, Nydia Velázquez, and the other by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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Feb 02, 2026
First came a remarkable State Senate upset. Next up: two high-octane U.S. Senate primaries.
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Feb 02, 2026
Julie Won, a New York City councilwoman, will face two other Democrats, one backed by the departing incumbent, Nydia Velázquez, and the other by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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Feb 02, 2026
Some hard-line House Republicans have balked at the agreement Senate Democrats struck with President Trump to fund the government, complicating its path to enactment.
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Feb 02, 2026
Former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the ex-secretary of state, agreed to depositions they had long resisted days before the House was to vote to hold them in contempt.
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Feb 02, 2026
Some of the affected agencies announced sweeping furloughs, while others tapped reserve funds to get through what they expected to be a short shutdown.
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Feb 02, 2026
Some hard-line House Republicans have balked at the deal Senate Democrats struck with President Trump to fund the government, complicating its path to enactment.
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Feb 02, 2026
Bill Clinton agreed to an interview he had long resisted, but Representative James Comer, the Oversight Committee chairman, signaled he would go forward with holding the former president in contempt.
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Feb 02, 2026
A bipartisan spending deal couldn't clear Congress in time to prevent a lapse in federal funding for some departments. The House must pass it to fully reopen the government.
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Feb 01, 2026
Representative Mike Lawler, who has promised to hold several town halls as he seeks re-election, was repeatedly heckled by audience members in Rockland County.
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Feb 01, 2026
Representative Mike Lawler, who has promised to hold several town halls as he seeks re-election, was repeatedly heckled by audience members in Rockland County.
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Feb 01, 2026
A Democrat won a state legislative special election in a district that President Trump carried by 17 percentage points, unnerving Republicans in Texas and beyond.
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Jan 31, 2026
Get live results and maps from the Jan. 31, 2026 Texas special runoff elections.
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Jan 31, 2026
Amid national protests, the round table convenes to debate what anti-ICE tactics should look like.
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Jan 31, 2026
Get live results and maps from the Jan. 31, 2026 Texas special runoff elections.
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Jan 31, 2026
The president and the top Senate Democrat, who are often at each other's throats, agreed to try to keep the government open and to start talks on new limits on federal immigration agents.
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Jan 31, 2026
The House still must clear the legislation for President Trump's signature, but is not expected to return to Washington to do so before Monday.
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Jan 31, 2026
Amid national protests, the round table convenes to debate what anti-ICE tactics should look like.
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Jan 30, 2026
Democrats agreed to fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks while they negotiate with President Trump on restricting his immigration crackdown.
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Jan 30, 2026
Hard-right Republicans have criticized an agreement they see as capitulating to Democrats on their party's strongest issue: immigration.
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Jan 30, 2026
Track the latest polls in Texas's 18th Congressional District runoff.
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Jan 29, 2026
Democrats and the White House agreed to fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks while they negotiate restrictions on the president's immigration crackdown.
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Jan 29, 2026
Senate Democrats and a handful of Republicans voted to block a government spending package on Thursday. President Trump and Senate Democrats continued to negotiate to rein in federal agents enacting his immigration crackdown and avert a government shutdown.
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Jan 29, 2026
Three outside political groups are backing Luke Bronin in his primary challenge to Representative John Larson, the 77-year-old Connecticut Democrat.
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Jan 29, 2026
Mr. Kazmierczak was arrested after he squirted liquid from a syringe onto Representative Ilhan Omar in Minneapolis as she spoke at an event on Tuesday night.
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Jan 29, 2026
With about 36 hours to go before a shutdown deadline, the funding legislation stalled while Democrats sought a deal with President Trump to rein in his immigration crackdown.
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Jan 29, 2026
The Democratic senator, who signaled her bid after Gov. Tim Walz said he wouldn't run again, talked about moving past political divides in a video announcement.
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Jan 29, 2026
The president and the top Senate Democrat were discussing an agreement to split off homeland security funding from a broader spending package and negotiate new limits on immigration agents.
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Jan 29, 2026
Democrats laid out demands for Homeland Security as the Senate prepared to vote on a government spending package. Lawmakers need to reach an agreement by the deadline on Friday to avoid a government shutdown.
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Jan 28, 2026
An attack at a town hall in Minneapolis, amid a surge in threats against lawmakers, was the latest sign of the fraying of the nation's political fabric.
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Jan 28, 2026
President Trump has spent years demonizing and dehumanizing the Somali-born Democrat from Minnesota, fueling escalating threats against her.
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Jan 28, 2026
The sweeping domestic policy law that Republicans muscled through Congress last year made ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in the country, with no strings attached.
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Jan 28, 2026
El asistente, que estaba sentado en primera fila, se abalanzó sobre la representante demócrata y la roció con un líquido de fuerte olor. Fue retirado por seguridad y luego ingresó en prisión.
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Jan 28, 2026
A man who had been sitting in the front row rushed at the Democratic representative and sprayed her with a strong-smelling liquid. He was removed by security and later booked into jail.
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Jan 27, 2026
Following the fatal shooting in Minneapolis, a drive to impeach the homeland security secretary has drawn dozens more Democratic supporters, including the party's top three leaders.
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Jan 27, 2026
The Georgia Democrat said he would push to block ICE funding when he returned to Washington.
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Jan 27, 2026
America must defend its greatest asset: Its alliances.
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Jan 27, 2026
The 88-year-old nonvoting delegate for Washington, D.C., who has retreated from her duties amid declining health, made it official that she would retire at the end of her term.
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Jan 27, 2026
Mr. Vindman will run for the Democratic nomination to take on Senator Ashley Moody, a Republican. The race is an uphill fight for Democrats, but Mr. Vindman could be a strong fund-raiser.
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Jan 26, 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration says it has reduced traffic in and out of the airport and designed safer routes. Crash victims' families want more.
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Jan 26, 2026
After a second fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis, Democrats say public opinion is on their side and they are willing to risk a backlash to counter what they see as police-state tactics.
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Jan 26, 2026
The inquiry, initiated by the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, appears to have stalled for lack of evidence.
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Jan 26, 2026
The killing of a 37-year-old man by a federal agent exposed fresh cracks in G.O.P. unity, with some expressing alarm while others stayed silent or backed the Trump administration.
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Jan 25, 2026
The two Massachusetts clans faced off in elections for decades, until a final 1962 Senate race. Despite his loss, Mr. Lodge praised his opponent, Ted Kennedy.
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Jan 25, 2026
It was not clear whether Washington's 88-year-old veteran delegate, who has been in declining health but has insisted she would seek re-election, was aware of the filing.
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Jan 25, 2026
Part casting director, part media guru, Morris Katz is behind the biggest Democratic campaigns this cycle.
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Jan 24, 2026
Key Senate Democrats said they would oppose legislation needed to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the week after federal agents shot and killed a Minneapolis resident.
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Jan 24, 2026
In a debate, Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico differed in their political styles but agreed that violent immigration agents needed to be held to account.
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Jan 23, 2026
House leaders were forced to rush Representative Wesley Hunt, Republican of Texas, to the Capitol with a police escort to avoid an embarrassing defeat on the floor.
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Jan 23, 2026
Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a physician, reluctantly voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary. It didn't appease President Trump.
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Jan 23, 2026
Progressives shouldn't let a retrograde style of internet discourse inhibit them from pointing out the obvious.
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Jan 23, 2026
A crackdown on problems with fairness and safety is achieving results, including a big drop in the number of sick patients being passed over for transplants.
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Jan 23, 2026
Two of the Democrats' rising stars, Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico, are seeing if a red state should be won courting disaffected Republicans or focusing on the party's base.
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Jan 23, 2026
Two of the Democrats' rising stars, Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico, are seeing if a red state should be won courting disaffected Republicans or focusing on the party's base.
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Jan 22, 2026
In a tie vote, the House defeated an effort to prohibit the president from using the U.S. military in Venezuela weeks after the raid he ordered that captured the country's leader.
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Jan 22, 2026
At two congressional hearings, lawmakers slammed executives of major companies, saying they were failing to rein in the cost of medical care for consumers.
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Jan 22, 2026
Approval of the package, which would fund a wide swath of government agencies, brings Congress closer to meeting a Jan. 30 funding deadline.
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Jan 22, 2026
The unanimous vote amounted to a bipartisan rebuke of the Senate after leaders in that chamber slipped the legal provision into legislation to reopen the government.
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Jan 22, 2026
The Minnesota senator, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, appears set to enter a race that has been transformed by President Trump's immigration crackdown in the state and protests against it.
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Jan 22, 2026
Jamelle Bouie, Ross Douthat and Kathleen Kingsbury on how Trump is changing the U.S. and the world.
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Jan 22, 2026
The mayor and the police commissioner appear to be on the same page, for now. Tensions could erupt over their political differences.
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Jan 21, 2026
The ruling, which is expected to be appealed, allows the state to change the boundary lines of a district held by a Staten Island Republican since 2021.
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Jan 21, 2026
Two leaders of a political security group talked about what they're seeing and hearing.
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Jan 21, 2026
The former Chicago mayor, who is trying to shape the Democratic Party's future and might run for president, said that "across all three branches of government, 75 years — you're out."
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Jan 21, 2026
Ms. Tafoya, once a sideline reporter for N.F.L. games, has more recently turned her focus to Republican politics. She is seeking an open seat now held by a Democrat.
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Jan 20, 2026
Republicans asked the justices to step in after a federal court rejected their claims that the state's new congressional map violated the Constitution.
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Jan 20, 2026
Days after President Trump urged her to run, Representative Julia Letlow said she would challenge Mr. Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican who voted to convict Mr. Trump in his second impeachment trial.
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Jan 19, 2026
Elon Musk, the world's richest person, backed Nate Morris, a Republican businessman, in the primary race to succeed Senator Mitch McConnell in Kentucky.
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Jan 19, 2026
With control of the narrowly divided House set to be decided by a small fraction of the chamber's seats, a wave of strategic redistricting and a flood of retirements will play a role in the 2026 midterms.
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Jan 18, 2026
The potential 2028 presidential candidates showcased a Democratic midterm strategy that would assail G.O.P. votes in favor of cutting Medicaid and allowing health care subsidies to expire.
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Jan 18, 2026
As the F.B.I. has added payback to its portfolio, Republican lawmakers like Senator Charles E. Grassley have emerged as a clearinghouse for leaks and whistle-blowers.
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Jan 18, 2026
The president urged Representative Julia Letlow of Louisiana to run against Mr. Cassidy, in a move that is likely to further complicate his relationship with Senate Republicans.
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Jan 17, 2026
The midterms will be a battle for control of Trump's legacy.
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Jan 17, 2026
Despite holding a governing trifecta, Republicans labored to steer the tightly divided House, with fewer votes and fewer bills that became law than almost any session in the last two decades.
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Jan 16, 2026
A video from Ken Paxton, a Republican primary challenger to Senator John Cornyn of Texas, depicted A.I.-generated imagery of the senator twirling with Jasmine Crockett, a Democratic Senate candidate.
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Jan 16, 2026
Three reporters discuss the Minneapolis chaos and how it could play a role in the midterms.
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Jan 16, 2026
Track the latest polls in the Louisiana U.S. Senate election.
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Jan 16, 2026
Track the latest polls in the Texas U.S. Senate election.
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Jan 16, 2026
Track the latest polls in the Virginia U.S. Senate election.
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Jan 16, 2026
Track the latest polls in the South Dakota U.S. Senate election.
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Jan 16, 2026
Track the latest polls in the South Carolina U.S. Senate election.
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Jan 16, 2026
Track the latest polls in the Ohio U.S. Senate election.
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Jan 16, 2026
Track the latest polls in the North Carolina U.S. Senate election.
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Jan 16, 2026
Track the latest polls in the New Hampshire U.S. Senate election.
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Jan 16, 2026
Track the latest polls in the Minnesota U.S. Senate election.
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Jan 16, 2026
Track the latest polls in the Michigan U.S. Senate election.
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Jan 16, 2026
Track the latest polls in the Massachusetts U.S. Senate election.
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Jan 16, 2026
Kyrsten Sinema fue acusada ante un tribunal federal de mantener un romance con un miembro casado de su equipo de seguridad.
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Jan 16, 2026
Seeking to calm tensions, Republicans and Democrats affirmed that they supported Denmark's control of Greenland as President Trump vowed to buy it or take it over.
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Jan 15, 2026
In a lawsuit, the ex-wife of Ms. Sinema's onetime staff member accused her of showering him with gifts and breaking up their marriage.
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Jan 15, 2026
Many proposals have been introduced, but there is little consensus among governors, Congress members and tech executives about exactly how much the companies behind data centers should pay for electricity.
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