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Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, on Friday welcomed Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, their first meeting since the U.S. military seized former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson's new proposal to update laws for government spying got a big thumbs-down from civil liberties advocates who say it does not do enough to protect Americans' privacy rights.

The Justice Department has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to expand the number of ways inmates on federal death row could be executed, including adding firing squads and gas asphyxiation.

The gerrymandered congressional district lines approved by Virginia voters Tuesday could be erased by the state's judicial system, which is weighing multiple court challenges to the new map.

President Trump is calling on Congress to reverse a ban on intoxicating hemp-derived products that lawmakers enacted last year to preserve access to CBD.

Prosecutors announced charges against an Iranian man they say operated a smuggling network that specialized in helping illegal immigrants from Iran sneak into the U.S.

President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and special envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Pakistan on Saturday to resume peace talks with Iran, according to the White House.

Several GOP lawmakers have urged President Trump to pardon the U.S. Army soldier accused of using classified information about former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's capture to win more than $400,000 through bets placed on online prediction ...

For Washington, much of the allure of the White House Correspondents' Dinner is all the action outside the ballroom -- and fittingly for "Nerd Prom," that means deep policy sessions timed to coincide with the big event.

A federal appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration went too far in trying to create its own deportation rules to speed up the process, ditching core protections Congress put in place to ensure people weren't sent to countries where they ...