Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump outlined in one of his many executive orders a mission to celebrate ...

Newt Gingrich vowed to apply the country’s laws to Congress. Now early backers are looking back on the Congressional ...

Dedicated to preserving America's cultural heritage, the US Library of Congress has submitted numerous pop songs to their registry archive since 2002.

The United States Capitol Police (USCP) said an armed man who took a U.S. Capitol tour and visited the Library of Congress was arrested.

The security officer who patted the suspect down and did not detect the loaded gun has been suspended.

Even more than in his first term, President Trump has mounted a fundamental challenge to the norms and expectations of what a ...

Final approval by the House sent the legislation, which requires the detention and deportation of unauthorized migrants ...

On a typical day, you can't turn on the news without hearing someone say that Congress is broken. The implication is that this dereliction explains why the institution is inert and unresponsive to the ...

When Trump first took office in 2017, he was still an insurgent to his own party. The GOP-dominated Congress had plenty of Republicans who had been critical of the new, mold-breaking leader.

While the bill has now been passed out of Congress, there are hurdles ahead for its implementation. The Laken Riley Act will require a ramp-up period and a boost in funding, Immigration and ...

The US Congress has passed a bill requiring undocumented immigrants who are arrested for theft or violent crimes to be held in jail pending trial. The bill, named after Laken Riley - a Georgia ...

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