Stabilize financial markets, support the poor and promote a more secure, integrated world. But blue-collar workers were left ...

Jimmy Carter campaigned for president as a populist outsider to Washington. A peanut farmer who grew up among African ...

There were six additional Republican holdouts who declined to vote the first time around, including Representatives Andy ...

Johnson had faced near-impossible margins from the jump: With a full House floor and a unified Democratic caucus, the speaker ...

Moments after his election as House Speaker on Friday, Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, wasted no time in highlighting ...

Speaker Mike Johnson faces a major challenge in the new Congress: the narrowest House majority in nearly 100 years. In a ...

The next year will start to feel the shadow of 2027 — the year by which the US says Chinese President Xi Jinping has said he wants to have the ability to execute an armed takeover of Taiwan.

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-elect Donald Trump.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer became the highest ranking Democratic to back Wisconsin's Ben Wikler to lead the ...

The Senate Democratic leader is the highest-ranking Democratic official to weigh in on the Feb. 1 election so far.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Thursday that he’s throwing his support behind Ben Wikler, the chair ...

Speaker Mike Johnson will face a major challenge in the new Congress – the narrowest House majority in nearly 100 years.