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Senate Republicans voted to confirm Todd Blanche as the new full attorney general, overcoming stiff headwinds President Trump created for his own nominee and installing a new top cop at the Justice Department.

Senators headed for the exits in the predawn hours Saturday, ending for now a crushing standoff over President Trump's demands that they stay in session to pass a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill before the summer recess.

Former North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn is one of 14 candidates competing for Florida's open 19th Congressional District seat, a Republican-dominated South Florida district where no clear frontrunner has emerged less than two weeks before the ...

President Trump told executives from some of the world's leading mining companies that his administration will dole out $180 million in grants, intensifying his efforts to boost the U.S. supply of critical minerals.

A pivotal House race in Maine has turned into a gunfight.

The Justice Department can move forward with its criminal case against the Southern Poverty Law Center, the federal judge overseeing the case ruled, rejecting the SPLC's claim that it is the victim of an illegal and vindictive prosecution.

The Senate confirmed 74 nominees to the Trump administration on Friday, clearing 95% of the civilian nominees pending floor consideration at a historically fast pace.

The Senate on Friday passed sweeping legislation to sanction Russia and impose tariffs on countries purchasing oil and gas from the Kremlin that are helping finance its war against Ukraine.

Sen. Charles E. Schumer's hopes of reclaiming the majority leader's gavel now rest on helping far-left candidates running in marquee Senate races who cast him as part of the problem -- and, in many cases, demand he hand over the leadership reins.

Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles, a Trump-endorsed conservative, was swamped in Thursday's GOP primary.