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President Biden has finally managed to get the southern border back to the low levels of illegal immigration he inherited from President Obama, according to the latest data that shows fewer than 100,000 migrants nabbed at the U.S.-Mexico boundary in ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson blamed Democrats for killing his back-up plan to avert a government shutdown, arguing that the new legislation was materially the same as the original, bipartisan plan.

President-elect Donald Trump hasn't set foot in the White House yet but already appears to be running Washington after torpedoing a bipartisan spending deal and forcing Congress to take up a tailored measure more to his liking. It hasn't been a ...

Democrats and Republicans on Thursday tanked House Speaker Mike Johnson's second attempt at a short-term government funding patch, adding more uncertainty as to whether Congress will avoid a partial government shutdown.

The June presidential debate between President Biden and then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump may have been the first time that some voters noticed just how diminished Mr. Biden's capabilities were, but the problems were present more ...

"While polling demonstrates a majority of Americans approve of President-elect Trump's handling of the transition process, the coverage by broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC has been almost uniformly negative," wrote Bill D'Agostino, an analyst ...

House Republican leaders plan to bring up a new, short-term federal funding bill that strips out provisions, pay raises and spending that drew opposition from conservatives and President-elect Donald Trump.

A Chinese national was arrested Thursday on charges of acting as an illegal agent for Beijing when serving as the campaign manager for an unnamed politician elected to a city council in Southern California two years ago.

A key House panel on Thursday released previously hidden testimony from a Trump-era Secret Service agent refuting the story of a star witness for the Jan. 6 committee, who had testified that President Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his ...

The New York City mayor's former chief adviser, her son and two real estate investors were indicted on Thursday in a bribery conspiracy, charges that come as the mayor himself faces a separate corruption case and a series of criminal investigations ...