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Should Sen. Markwayne Mullin be approved as the next secretary of Homeland Security, he will walk into the department's sprawling Washington, D.C., campus with his work cut out for him.

The Republican-led Senate on Tuesday voted to open what is likely to be a lengthy and rancorous floor fight over a bill to implement strict voter identification rules in federal elections.

President Trump said Tuesday the U.S. will be "doing something with Cuba very soon" as the administration tightens its economic squeeze on the island's communist leaders.

President Trump may have cooled the U.S.-Mexico boundary but the latest data shows unauthorized migrants are now surging into America's interior.

Grady Judd, the sheriff in Polk County, Florida, said Tuesday that he didn't mean to cause a sensation when he proposed giving a break to illegal immigrants who are "doing good" by granting them firm legal status.

Top House investigators issued a subpoena on Tuesday ordering Attorney General Pam Bondi to appear before the panel for a deposition about Jeffrey Epstein.

More and more Democratic candidates heading into the November midterms won't commit to backing Hakeem Jeffries as House minority leader.

President Trump said Tuesday that he has postponed his planned summit in China later this month because of the U.S. war with Iran.

Michael Martin, the Taoiseach of Ireland, attempted to steer clear of discussing the Iran conflict and trade tensions at a White House meeting with President Trump on Tuesday.

The White House and its allies in Congress pushed back Tuesday at criticism of the war in Iran leveled by top counterterrorism official Joe Kent, who resigned his administration post in protest of the military operation.