A congressional committee has advanced contempt proceedings against billionaire financier Leon Black after he declined to comply with deposition subpoenas connected to the Jeffr...

The Russian government has announced a 7% reduction in social programmes to finance record military spending, while US intelligence is separately monitoring a fatal incident at ...

The Republican-controlled Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Labor Department and advanced Dr. Nicole Saphier’s nomination for surgeon general before l...

The House and Senate have passed bipartisan legislation to permanently stop minting the one-cent coin, sending the measure to President Donald Trump after decades of debate over...

Federal prosecutors have filed more noncitizen voting cases in the past month than during the entire previous administration, intensifying election-security enforcement as congr...

The US Senate has adjourned until the week of November 9, postponing work on the annual defense authorization bill, permitting reform and expiring Foreign Intelligence Surveilla...

President Donald Trump has made a proposed $5,000 payment to Americans a central midterm campaign pledge, though House Speaker Mike Johnson says the plan would require congressi...

President Donald Trump has ordered a temporary freeze on the 24-cent federal diesel tax and expanded agricultural diesel sales, using emergency authority to lower fuel costs for...

The US Defense Department is preparing an aircraft carrier deployment and as many as 10,000 additional troops while the Trump administration considers Iranian proposals for a tw...

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to extend tariffs through January, establish a communication framework for artificial intelligence incidents and s...

The Department of War introduced a commissioning programme involving Liberty University, Hillsdale College and Louisiana State University, designating the institutions as Honor ...