U.S. Rep. Adam Smith has been around in Washington state politics a long time. A moderate Democrat, he’s been in Congress since 1997, and before that, served in the state Legislature. His 9th ...

President Trump has emerged as the most powerful president of either party in decades, wielding enormous clout within the GOP ...

Sen. Thom Tillis, who last month said he would not seek reelection, suggested on Wednesday that he regretted casting the deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

A handful of members of the Republican majority crossed party lines to challenge administration priorities on collective ...

Roughly 700 active-duty US Marines who were mobilized last month to respond to protests in Los Angeles are being sent home ...

Specifically, Hegseth’s expansive memo rescinds past policies established by the Defense Department in 2021 and 2022 that provide guidance for implementing congressional mandates that restrict ...

When House Speaker Mike Johnson gifted to President Donald Trump the gavel used to enact the Republicans' tax breaks and ...

TAMPA, Fla. — The future activist base of the Republican Party found themselves at the center of MAGA’s biggest rifts Friday ...

Republicans are encountering some early headaches in Senate races viewed as pivotal to maintaining the party’s majority next ...

Pentagon press releases say 20,000 federal troops have deployed to support ICE across the country. The real number may be ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was met with sharp questions and criticism Tuesday by lawmakers who demanded details on his move to deploy troops to Los Angeles, and they ...

The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from ...