Carl Hulse is the chief Washington correspondent for The Times, primarily writing about Congress and national political races ...

Limited government requires not only laws but also the ambition of the political branches to check each other.

Former special counsel Jack Smith wants to testify in open hearings before House and Senate Judiciary Committees on ...

A documentary proof-of-citizenship requirement for voting in U.S. elections hasn’t been able to pass Congress and has been ...

Maine’s Daira Smith-Rodriguez (D) suspended her Senate campaign Thursday and threw her support behind Gov. Janet Mills (D) ...

The Senate failed to advance two partisan bills that would have paid some federal workers during the shutdown. Democrats and ...

The speaker’s decision to hold the House in an indefinite hiatus during the shutdown is his latest move to diminish the role ...

While leaders in Europe are grappling with overtourism at popular sites, tourism officials in the United States are ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed a critical-minerals deal at ...

President says US is ‘just going to kill people’ as military accelerates campaign against South American regimes ...

Government shutdown 2025 is now the second longest in history, but how much longer is it expected to last? See the odds on ...

The second-longest government shutdown enters its 24th day with Congress out of session and the funding lapse heading toward ...