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The president-elect weighed in against the mammoth spending package after Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy had spent the day attacking it and warning Republicans not to support it.

A group of Democratic lawmakers accused Georgia Pathways to Coverage, the only Medicaid work requirement program in the country, of spending little of its funding on health benefits.

President-elect Donald J. Trump has never been shy about his desire to see his enemies punished. But he often shows a measure of caution about taking credit for potential prosecutions himself.

The supplier fired dozens of prisoners after some of them said they felt they had no choice but to take those jobs.

U.S. officials have given the rebel group in control of Damascus a list of former members of the Assad government who could have information about Austin Tice.

The mammoth year-end federal funding measure congressional leaders agreed on does far more than just keep the government running. It is stuffed with all manner of policy and other changes.

The annual defense bill directing $895 billion toward the Pentagon and other military programs would deny transgender health coverage to minors. It now heads to President Biden's desk.

"This is what his nightmares are all about," said a lawyer for a now-confessed war criminal who spent years at Guantánamo Bay.

The company and its Chinese parent invoked the First Amendment in urging the justices to step in before a Jan. 19 deadline to sell or be shut down.

Lawmakers agreed the report would come out after the House has completed legislative business for the year and once they have left Washington to return to their districts.