Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot Friday, pushing past GOP hard-right holdouts and buoyed with a nod of support from ...

PRESIDENT Joe Biden announced last week that he was commuting the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death-row inmates to life ...

Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot Friday, pushing past GOP hard-right ...

WASHINGTON — Attorneys for Bob Menendez painted him as a defeated man as they asked a federal court for leniency when sentencing the former senator, who was found guilty last ...

Conrad is running to be a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee as the regrouping party will choose new leaders next month.

As trust in the media plummets and the Democratic Party itself limps into a murky future, once again locked out of power in ...

Amid Ruto’s crackdown on dissent, a popular young cartoonist critical of his government went missing on Christmas Eve.

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) points to a reporter for a question during a press conference after a closed-door ...

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Many Democrats were crying in their eggnog as the political year closed. We failed to win back the House of Representatives ...

US Republican leader Mike Johnson was set to face down critics Friday in a vote in Congress that could see him returned as ...

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