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Democrats could benefit from a GOP wild card in Alaska's U.S. Senate primary on Tuesday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson says he's confident Republicans can keep and grow their majority as he paints the November midterm elections as a choice between "common sense and crazy."

The Department of Homeland Security's border agency chief said Monday that he is pausing all border wall construction in Big Bend National Park in Texas and he will personally visit the site to figure out next steps.

President Trump on Monday said making the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory would be a "great idea," repeating a proposal he floated in a speech a few days ago.

President Trump on Monday hailed the heroics of a 16-year-old lifeguard who saved a boy caught in the rugged Californian surf in late July.

The FBI set up a secret unit in 2019 to label allegations of corruption against Joseph R. Biden and his son Hunter as "Russian disinformation" at a time when the former vice president was running for president.

The Justice Department's inspector general announced a new probe Monday to investigate allegations that DOJ knowingly allowed fentanyl to be bought and sold, as agents tried to bring a lengthy trafficking case to a close.

Rep. Nancy Mace is sporting an inky new look as she faces the end of her time in Congress.

Data centers have gone from economic-development darlings to political hot potatoes as public opinion soured and many former advocates scramble to align with voters.

The Supreme Court on Monday again rejected President Trump's request to review a $5 million judgment in New York writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit against him.