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While their colleagues were on summer recess, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) proposed passage of a border-security bill to Sen ...

The new Department of Justice account of the 1921 assault on a Black neighborhood is a necessary dose of truth in an era poisoned by disinformation.

Senate Democrats appear to be warming up to Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), President-elect Trump’s combative and confrontational nominee for envoy to the United Nations, encouraged by commitments ...

Sarah’s Law was being considered as an amendment to the Laken Riley Act, which is on the Senate floor this week.

Pam Bondi was pressed about the 2020 election and Trump's influence over the Justice Department, while Marco Rubio struck a ...

The filmmaker was celebrated for his uniquely dark vision in such movies as "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive" and the TV ...

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Thursday said he was “flabbergasted” by the ...

More than 10 percent of current senators first entered the chamber through appointment. Their numbers will soon grow.

Washington mourned Jimmy Carter last week at the National Cathedral, which has been a guide for activism in the Trump era ...

Democrats repeatedly called Pete Hegseth unfit to be secretary of defense, but Republicans on the Senate Armed Services ...

Leslie Charleson, who played popular character Dr. Monica Quartermaine for almost 50 years on “General Hospital,” has died.