Sen. Mitch McConnell says he will lead a subcommittee overseeing defense spending as he carves out new roles once he relinquishes his long-running post as Senate Republican leader.

After a resounding election victory, President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans say they have a mandate to govern.

Republicans are going to court in Pennsylvania amid vote counting in the U.S. Senate election between Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican David McCormick, with the contest headed toward a state-mandated recount.

Just hours after Republican Sen. John Thune was elected as the incoming Senate majority leader, President-elect Donald Trump presented him with one of his first tests — an announcement that he intends to nominate House Republican Matt Gaetz as attorney general.

The U.S. military judge at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has scheduled hearings in early January for alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants to enter guilty pleas in exchange for life sentences.

It was the first seriously contested Senate Republican leadership election in decades.

Sen. John Thune has won an internal election among Republican senators to become the chamber’s next majority leader.

Days before Senate Republicans pick their new leader, President-elect Donald Trump is pressuring the candidates to change Senate rules and give him more power to appoint unconfirmed nominees.

House Republican leaders are projecting confidence that they will keep control of the U.S. House.

The majority in the U.S. House hangs in balance.

Republicans have taken the Senate majority and are fighting to keep control of the House.

Senate Republicans vying to replace longtime leader Mitch McConnell have been crossing the country to campaign and fundraise for colleagues, making their final arguments before an important upcoming Senate vote.

The Supreme Court is allowing national medication and anti-doping rules for horse racing to remain in effect while a court fight likely to wind up with the justices continues.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was “stupid as well as being ill-tempered” and a “despicable human being."

Republicans are sensing an opportunity in Wisconsin’s closely watched Senate race.

Sen. John Thune of South Dakota is competing intensely to become the next Republican leader in the Senate.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says the challenge of deterring America's adversaries should be “front and center” for the next president.

Republican Rick Scott’s bid for renomination for a second Senate term tops the list of races that Florida voters will decide in the upcoming primary.

A recent conservative conference in Georgia hosted by influential syndicated radio host Erick Erickson featured few, if any, red hats and no rousing promises to “Make America Great Again.”.

Prominent Republicans in Kentucky have ridiculed Gov. Andy Beshear's efforts to land the No. 2 spot on the Democratic presidential ticket.

Since President Joe Biden left the White House race, Vice President Kamala Harris has begun to craft her own narrative around the economy.

Elevated into the national spotlight as former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance has carved out a unique role in his short Senate career.

The Republican presidential ticket came together when Donald Trump named JD Vance as his running mate.

After the 2020 election, many Republican senators distanced themselves from Donald Trump.

Nevada GOP Senate Republican runner-up Jeff Gunter has continued his attacks on the nominee and retired Army Capt. Sam Brown.

North Dakota voters have just approved a ballot initiative that bars anyone who would be 81 years old during his or her U.S. House or Senate term from running for Congress.

Former President Donald Trump will meet with Senate Republicans Thursday, speaking to the group just two weeks after he was convicted on 34 charges in his hush money trial and as GOP senators have increasingly rallied around him.

Former president Donald Trump has endorsed retired Army Capt. Sam Brown for U.S. Senate in Nevada over a crowded GOP primary field.

Gov. Ron DeSantis used his veto pen to strike a bill that would have banned high-potency hemp products.

For one shining moment this week, the country’s ongoing political crises were swept away by the comedic power of one wildly exuberant 6-year-old.

Gov. Andy Beshear says drug overdose deaths in Kentucky fell nearly 10% in 2023.

A young boy sitting behind his father on the House floor has become the latest social media star after performing for the C-SPAN cameras.

Congressional leaders have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver an address a the U.S. Capitol.

Senate Republicans are blocking for a second time a bill to clamp down the number of migrants allowed to claim asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott says he will run for Senate Republican leader when Mitch McConnell steps down from the post, becoming the third Republican in the race.

The Senate has confirmed the 200th federal judge of President Joe Biden’s tenure.

Many Democrats campaigning for the Senate this year say they support suspending the filibuster rule to pass nationwide abortion protections.

Colleges around the U.S. are imploring student protesters of the war on Gaza to clear out tent encampments with rising levels of urgency.

Protests against the war in Gaza are roiling college campuses nationwide.

Providing Ukraine with weapons and other U.S. aid as it fends off a Russian invasion is rooted in the earliest and most formative political memories of the two top Republicans in Congress.

President Joe Biden says he's immediately rushing badly needed weaponry to Ukraine now that he's signed into law a $95 billion war aid measure that also includes assistance for Israel, Taiwan and other allies.

For nearly two decades, Mitch McConnell’s only job uncertainty hinged on whether he’d serve as Senate majority or minority leader after the next election.

Donald Trump is campaigning on promises of mass deportations and of pardons for those convicted in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, and his ideas are being met with little pushback by a new era of Republicans in Congress.

Lawmakers have introduced a $1.2 trillion spending package that sets the stage for avoiding a partial government shutdown for several key federal agencies this weekend.

Angela Chao, a shipping industry CEO and sister-in-law to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, was intoxicated when she drove into a pond and died last month in Texas.

Republicans and Israeli officials were quick to express outrage after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer lashed out at Prime Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza and called for Israel to hold new elections.

Senate Republicans are taking aim at a new federal courts policy trying to curb “judge shopping,” a practice that gained national attention in a major abortion medication case.

Senators from both major political parties are urging congressional leaders to ensure that more visas are made available to Afghans who worked alongside U.S. troops in America’s longest war.

Sen. Katie Britt called President Joe Biden a “dithering and diminished leader” in the Republican rebuttal to his State of the Union address Thursday evening.

Donald Trump is now the last major Republican candidate for president who's still standing.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has endorsed Donald Trump for president.

Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso says he'll run for the No. 2 spot in the Senate Republican conference after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell leaves at the end of the year.

Senate leader Mitch McConnell is the highest-ranking Republican in Congress who has yet to endorse Donald Trump’s bid to return to the White House.

South Dakota Sen. John Thune is entering the race to be the next Republican leader of the U.S. Senate after Sen. Mitch McConnell steps away from the post in November.

Mitch McConnell’s decision to step down as Senate Republican leader in November is reverberating back home in Kentucky.

Texas Sen. John Cornyn has informed his colleagues that he intends to run for Senate Republican leader.

Long before Sen. Mitch McConnell surprised colleagues by announcing he would be stepping down as the Republican leader this fall, he knew the time had come.

Mitch McConnell says he'll step down as Senate Republican leader in November.

Congressional leaders emerged from an “intense” Oval Office meeting with President Joe Biden speaking optimistically about the prospects for avoiding a partial government shutdown beginning this weekend.

President Joe Biden will convene the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the emergency aid package for Ukraine and Israel, as well as avoiding a government shutdown next month.

Republicans have been softening their stance on Russia ever since Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election following Russian hacking of his Democratic opponents.

President Joe Biden is calling urgently for House Republicans to get behind a supplemental spending bill that would send $60 billion to Ukraine for its fight against Russia.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is sharply criticizing a $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other countries, casting serious doubts about the future of the package.

As a growing number of Republicans oppose U.S. aid to Ukraine, the Senate’s leaders are arguing in strong terms that the money is crucial to pushing back against Russian President Vladimir Putin and maintaining America’s global standing.

The U.S. Senate is slogging past far-right Republican opposition to helping Ukraine fight Russia.

After months of negotiations and delays, the Senate has voted to move forward on legislation that would provide wartime aid to Ukraine and Israel.

The Senate is beginning work on a package of wartime funding for Ukraine and other U.S. allies.

President Joe Biden was urgently seeking more money from Congress to aid Ukraine and Israel.

A former youth minister in the Baptist church, Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford is known as one of the most sincere and well-liked members of the Senate.

Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas was not, in fact, impeached, by the House.

A Senate deal on border enforcement measures and Ukraine aid has suffered swift and total collapse.

Senate Republicans are resisting the advance of a bipartisan proposal intended to clamp down on illegal border crossings.

A provision of border security legislation that would give the U.S. a new authority to block migrants from entering the country has become a central line of attack from many Republicans who are opposing the legislation.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether Donald Trump can remain on the ballot in Colorado, where that state’s highest court ruled that he violated a constitutional provision targeting those who “engaged in insurrection.”.

Senators have released a highly anticipated bill that pairs border enforcement policy with wartime aid for Ukraine and Israel.

A bipartisan Senate deal to pair border enforcement measures and Ukraine aid faces potential collapse.

Senate negotiators are laboring to win support for a deal on border policy as they enter what could be a pivotal stretch for a painstakingly negotiated compromise that could open the door for Republican support to replenish U.S. wartime aid for Ukraine.

A meeting between President Joe Biden, House Speaker Mike Johnson and other officials highlights the precarious nature of the complex talks to unlock aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies.

President Joe Biden’s administration is facing criticism and credibility questions after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization was kept secret for days — even from the White House.

With support for Ukraine slipping in Congress, the United States is once again struggling to assert its role in the world.

President Joe Biden’s push to have Congress replenish wartime aid for Ukraine as part of a deal on border and immigration policy changes will almost certainly drag into next year.

Local officials say Ukraine has came under heavy attack from the air and from cyberspace.

Washington’s center of gravity on immigration has shifted demonstrably to the right.

A Virginia man has been arrested on charges that he stormed the U.S. Capitol while wearing a Captain America backpack and stole items from senators’ desks on the Senate floor during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

President Joe Biden’s nearly $106 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other needs is sitting idle in Congress.

Republicans two seats short of U.S. Senate control are expected to spend tens of millions of dollars on ads attacking Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester as a Washington insider tainted by lobbyist cash.

Moms for Liberty has reported $2.1 million in total revenue in 2022.

Senate Democrats have moved to temporarily change Senate rules and confirm hundreds of military nominees.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has been increasingly isolated on foreign policy among his GOP colleagues, a growing number of whom have distanced themselves as a matter of course from U.S. involvement abroad -- and particularly on Ukraine.

There are just 10 days before another potential government shutdown.

Senate Republicans have released a sweeping set of U.S. border security proposals as a condition for sending more aid to Ukraine, laying out a draft plan to resume construction on parts of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, curtail humanitarian parole for people who cross into the United States and make it more difficult for migrants to qualify for asylum.

Several states will participate in Tuesday’s off-year general election.

Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear seeks a second term in the heavily Republican state on Tuesday in one of the most competitive and closely watched races on the ballot this year.

Republican senators have angrily challenged Sen. Tommy Tuberville on his blockade of almost 400 military officers.

Kari Lake launched a U.S. Senate campaign with a splashy rally outside Phoenix, having never conceded she lost last year’s race for Arizona governor.

The recent collapse of Ukraine aid in Congress was months in the making.

When U.S. lawmakers approved a spending bill Saturday that averted a widely expected government shutdown, the measure didn’t include the $6 billion in military assistance that Ukraine said it urgently needed.

The threat of a federal government shutdown ended late Saturday night after Congress approved a temporary funding bill to keep federal agencies open until Nov. 17.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell declared again that he plans to finish his term as leader despite freezing up twice at news conferences over the summer, brushing off questions about his health as he sought to reassure colleagues he’s still up to the job.

The U.S. Capitol physician says 81-year-old Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s health episodes show no evidence of a stroke or seizure disorder.