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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Trump says he's not considering replacing Defense Secretary Hegseth, despite voter dissatisfaction with the Iran war.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The midterm election blowout delivered a new era in Washington, with Democrats in Congress eager to meet voter demands for change while Republicans watched their majorities evaporate after a revolt against President Donald Trump and his party in power.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The midterm election blowout delivered a new era in Washington, with Democrats in Congress eager to meet voter demands for change while Republicans watched their majorities evaporate after a revolt against President Donald Trump and his party in power.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The midterm election blowout delivered a new era in Washington, with Democrats in Congress eager to meet voter demands for change while Republicans watched their majorities evaporate after a revolt against President Donald Trump and his party in power.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Trump acknowledges the Iran war impacted the midterm elections but says the 'Iran thing' was something he had to do.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vance blames war in Iran for Republican midterm losses: 'If you'd like to argue it was worth it,' he says, 'then do so.'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats are riding their sweep of Congress into a new era, eager to meet voter demands for change with plans to tackle high costs of living and confront President Donald Trump's final years in the White House.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Speaker Mike Johnson won't seek reelection as House Republican leader after Democratic takeover, an AP source says.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats are riding their sweep of Congress into a new era, eager to meet voter demands for change with plans to tackle high costs of living and confront President Donald Trump's final years in the White House.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is on the cusp of making history as the nation's first Black speaker of the House, a generational shift in U.S. politics after Democrats trounced Republicans to win majority control of the chamber in the midterm elections.
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries listened from the front row at the old Ohio church as the Sunday congregation heard of scripture's guidance for calming a gathering storm.
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday the election climate is holding firm for Democrats as he campaigned for Rep. Marcy Kaptur in a heavily contested Ohio congressional district that is crucial for majority control of the House.
BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- Ever the optimist, Speaker Mike Johnson said he believes Republicans will hold on to their U.S. House majority, defying a surge of Democratic momentum in the final stretch of the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.
BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- Speaker Mike Johnson made a campaign swing Wednesday through Maine's picturesque second congressional district, convinced Republicans will defy history and maintain their House majority, as he worked to boost GOP candidate Paul LePage in what is one of the party's best hopes to flip a Democratic-held seat.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democrats are preparing an ambitious 100-days agenda focused on delivering their campaign promises -- making life more affordable and conducting vast oversight of the Trump administration -- if the party seizes majority control in next month's elections.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday his party is on track to win back control of the House, confident it can overcome a fundraising disadvantage and reach deep into conservative areas to flip congressional districts won by President Donald Trump just two years ago.
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) -- The GOP's "Big Beautiful Bill" is rolling out in different ways across U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson's home district -- from steakhouse servers getting a tax break on tips to a community center where people line up for a free hot lunch as SNAP benefits are being cut.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite rising political anxiety over the Iran war, senators on Thursday narrowly rejected a war powers resolution seeking to halt President Donald Trump 's military action, which has been largely blamed for the spike in gas prices and become a flashpoint in the midterm election.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Increasingly anxious about the Iran war, senators are set to vote Thursday on a war powers resolution seeking to halt President Donald Trump 's military action, which has been largely blamed for the spike in fuel prices and become a flashpoint in the midterm election.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Speaker Mike Johnson is closing up the House early, sending lawmakers home Wednesday to campaign for the midterm elections after what he claims is the most productive Congress in decades.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House Oversight Committee voted Tuesday to recommend that billionaire Leon Black be held in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena for testimony in the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Working to keep the majority in Congress, Republicans at the midterm convention in Dallas are showcasing their chief legislative accomplishment -- the sweeping package of tax breaks, social service cuts and immigration enforcement that President Donald Trump signed into law.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's one thing to issue a Declaration of Independence. It's quite another to launch a grand experiment in representative democracy.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Beginning on Day One, House Democrats plan to "hold the crooks accountable."
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and President Donald Trump's son-in-law and outside adviser Jared Kushner met privately recently in New York, a signal that the White House is seeking ways to work with Democrats if they wrest majority control from Republicans in the midterm elections.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senators headed for the exits in the predawn hours Saturday, ending for now a crushing standoff over President Donald Trump's demands that they stay in session to pass a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill before the summer recess.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's border czar said Sunday that the vetting of an immigration officer involved in the deadly shooting of a Colombian native in Maine is under internal review after relatives revealed to The Associated Press that he had a history of serious mental health struggles and violent behavior.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is "fomenting hate" by calling the prime minister a war criminal who should be arrested over the war in Gaza if he visits the city for the United Nations General Assembly.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House leaders sent lawmakers home for summer campaigning after one of the rockiest sessions in recent memory as voters decide which party to put in power in Congress for the remainder of President Donald Trump's term.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic members of Congress are demanding answers about Homeland Security's vetting and training of immigration enforcement agents after it was disclosed that the ICE officer involved in a deadly shooting this week in Maine had a history of mental health issues and violent behavior.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic members of Congress demanded answers about Homeland Security's vetting and training of immigration enforcement agents after it was disclosed Thursday that the ICE officer involved in a deadly shooting this week in Maine had a history of mental health issues and violent behavior.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Whither the U.S. House?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than $350 million from President Donald Trump's " big, beautiful bill " has been quietly directed to White House security, an allotment that Democrats warn appears to be helping fund his new ballroom project -- despite the president's insistence that no taxpayer dollars would be used.
There aren't many lawmakers like Thomas Massie left in Congress.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries had warned Republicans they would come to regret the congressional redistricting fight, and when Democrats counterpunched last month with a redrawn Virginia map, he had made his point.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson has lamented he would like to preside over a "normal Congress," but the chamber the Republican is leading is anything but.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House took a crucial step Wednesday toward funding the Department of Homeland Security, as the Trump administration warned that money to pay Transportation Security Administration and other agency personnel will "soon run out," sparking new threats of airport disruptions and national security concerns.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is warning Congress that funding to pay Department of Homeland Security personnel will "soon run out," sparking new threats of airport disruptions and national security concerns as the House slow-walks legislation to end what has been the longest-ever lapse in agency funding.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a rare bipartisan moment, the House passed legislation Thursday that would extend temporary protections for Haitian immigrants, a long-shot effort fighting back against President Donald Trump's attempts to end the program.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman opened the hearing with a provocative dare: Say it to my face.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Monday he won't sign any other legislation into law until Congress passes a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill that he says also must end Americans' ability to vote by mail, a startling demand months before the midterm elections.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tensions flared as questions mounted at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday over the Trump administration's shifting rationale for war with Iran as lawmakers demand answers over the strategy, exit plan and costs to Americans in lives and dollars for what is quickly becoming a widening Middle East conflict.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tensions flared as questions mounted at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday over the Trump administration's shifting rationale for war with Iran as lawmakers demand answers over the strategy, exit plan and costs to Americans in lives and dollars in what is quickly becoming a widening Middle East conflict.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans are rushing ahead on Wednesday on legislation that would impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements ahead of the midterm elections, a longshot Trump administration priority that faces sharp blowback in the Senate.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Beyond the car windows being smashed, people tackled on city streets -- or even a little child with a floppy bunny ears snowcap detained -- the images of masked federal officers has become a flashpoint in the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans are proposing sweeping changes to the nation's voting laws, a long-shot priority for President Donald Trump that would impose stricter requirements, including some before Americans vote in the midterm elections in the fall.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans are proposing sweeping changes to the nation's voting laws, a long-shot priority for President Donald Trump that would impose stricter requirements before Americans vote in the midterm elections in the fall.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A groundswell of voices have come to the same conclusion: Kristi Noem must go.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One week after the nation marked the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, the history of what happened that day is being reconsidered, revised and reassessed by the party in power.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the longest-serving Democrat in Congress and once a rival to become House speaker, will announce Thursday he is set to retire at the end of his term.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the longest-serving Democrat in Congress and once a rival to become House speaker, will announce Thursday he is set to retire at the end of his term.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five years ago outside the White House, outgoing President Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters to head to the Capitol -- "and I'll be there with you" -- in protest as Congress was affirming the 2020 election victory for Democrat Joe Biden.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five years ago outside the White House, the outgoing President Donald Trump told a crowd of his supporters to head to the Capitol -- "and I'll be there with you" -- in protest as Congress was affirming the 2020 election victory for Democrat Joe Biden.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five years ago outside the White House, the outgoing president Donald Trump told a crowd of his supporters to head to the Capitol -- " and I'll be there with you " -- in protest as Congress was affirming the 2020 election victory for Democrat Joe Biden.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. House is back in session after a multi-week hiatus, but its agenda has been quickly overtaken by a sudden flurry of censures, reprimands and the investigation of members, leaving little bandwidth for legislating.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After refusing to convene the U.S. House during the government shutdown, Speaker Mike Johnson is recalling lawmakers back into session -- and facing an avalanche of pent-up legislative demands from those who have largely been sidelined from governing.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After refusing to convene the U.S. House during the government shutdown, Speaker Mike Johnson is recalling lawmakers back into session -- and facing an avalanche of pent-up legislative demands from those who have largely been sidelined from governing.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nancy Pelosi is bringing her history-making career in the U.S. House to an end, but she leaves a linguistic legacy in Congress and beyond.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nancy Pelosi is bringing her history-making career in the U.S. House to an end, but she leaves a linguistic legacy in Congress and beyond.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi will not seek reelection to the U.S. House, bringing to a close her storied career as not only the first woman in the speaker's office but arguably the most powerful in American politics.