Watching “Oppenheimer,” a journalist wondered (perhaps a bit obsessively): How did the president get the $2 billion secret project past Congress?

The close alliance that has developed between the speaker and the hard-right Georgia Republican explains his rise, how he might govern and the heavy influence of the extremes on the new House G.O.P....

The push by both Republicans and Democrats in Congress sets up an election-year veto fight with the president, and shows how he has isolated himself even from members of his own party on the issue.

“I will not sit back and watch in silence while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law,” Representative Liz Cheney said on the eve of a vote to remove her from House Republ...

The wide margin of support reflected a sense of urgency among lawmakers in both parties about shoring up the technological and industrial capacity of the United States to counter Beijing.

The postmaster general, under fire for his business ties and his cost-cutting measures, will testify before the House next week.

The House passed sweeping legislation that would decriminalize marijuana and expunge nonviolent marijuana-related convictions. The measure is all but doomed in the Republican-led Senate.

“We cannot both embrace the big lie and embrace the Constitution,” Ms. Cheney said after a closed-door meeting where Republicans jeered her before voting her out.

Lawmakers in the House and Senate met privately to hash out their concerns about President Biden’s viability, but leaders emerged from two separate meetings pledging allegiance to their candidate.

Little is known about how a gallows came to be built near the Capitol, but the motif has become a favorite among right-wing extremists and white supremacists.

The notification, required within 48 hours of introducing United States armed forces into hostilities, only contained classified information, a senior congressional aide said.

The assault of the House speaker’s husband inside their home comes as threats against members of Congress have increased in recent years.

Inclusion of the measure in a sweeping annual defense bill, which Republicans supported, raises the prospect of an election-year Senate vote on whether to honor Confederate figures.

Nearly two weeks after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, confusing messages from government officials have frayed locals’ trust.

The retiring Tennessee lawmaker is among a handful of Republicans who pushed to have a vote on whether to call impeachment trial witnesses.

The measure’s smooth path through Congress reflected a broad consensus on Capitol Hill, for now, to devote massive sums to supporting Ukraine’s war effort with little debate.

Lawmakers repeatedly pressed Gregory T. Monahan to square his remarks with videos showing his officers attacking protesters. He declined.

The Trump administration will allow the $105 million aid package to flow after freezing the funding without explanation.

The announcement was a significant setback in the effort to quickly confirm Michael Pack, a conservative filmmaker President Trump has personally lobbied to install.

Mr. Williams, who will testify before lawmakers about the U.S. Postal Service on Thursday, is expected to allege efforts by the Trump administration to undermine the agency.

Once upon a time, a president’s thoughts were stealthy and rare, like snow leopards. Under Trump, they are loud and everywhere, like cicadas.

House Republicans are on the defensive in suburban strongholds as voters reject President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus.

Facing intimidation for opposing Jim Jordan’s speakership candidacy, mainstream Republicans are refusing to back down, defying their reputation for caving in the face of party clashes.

Some Republicans crossed party lines to join Democrats in voting to curtail President Trump’s ability to wage war with Iran, weeks after a drone strike killed a top Iranian general.

“Louisiana went from populist Democrat to staunchly deep-red Republican at the federal level and John Kennedy has been all those.”

A right-wing congressman persuaded fellow Republicans to abruptly turn against a routine measure to name a federal courthouse in Florida for a Black State Supreme Court justice.

The measure is mostly symbolic, but the top Senate Democrat is pressing to use a coming Ukraine aid spending bill to give the president the power to liquidate the confiscated property.

Representative Steve King of Iowa, already under fire for racism, fumbles his answer when asked at a town-hall-style meeting whether a white society is superior to a nonwhite society.

An uneasy détente has emerged between congressional Republicans and Democrats after the Jan. 6 attack, but relationships are badly frayed.

Frustrated with the Biden administration’s plans and inundated with requests for help, members of Congress in both parties have thrown themselves into extraction efforts.

Law enforcement groups, which have donated generously to members of both political parties, have dictated the terms of the debate on an overhaul, prodding lawmakers to reject the toughest measures.

Facing a consequential test, Republicans staked out dueling positions over whether to join an insurgency in their ranks pushing to invalidate President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory