WASHINGTON ‒ As scandals continue to plague popular online betting platforms, calls within Congress to intervene are getting louder. A series of controversies in April ‒ from political candidates ...

Republican and Democratic challengers are both using the issue to attack members of Congress as unethical, seizing on a common practice that enrages voters. By Annie Karni Reporting from Washington ...

Fourteen state legislatures have passed a resolution asking for something Congress could, in theory, hand them for free: term limits on its own members. They aren't asking Congress to pass a law. They ...

Seven years ago last month, President Donald Trump remarked that he had “an Article 2 where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” This statement was widely mocked during his first term ...

Taxpayers have paid more than $300,000 in confidential sexual harassment settlements on behalf of six former members of the House of Representatives or their offices, according to GOP Rep. Nancy Mace ...

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) doesn’t think 100 is too old to serve in Congress, as we reported last week. Despite twice being duped by Russian comedians and regularly making little sense, the 87-year ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh testified before Congress on Tuesday, doubling down on his pledge to squelch inflation. "If we get policy right — and I can assure you we will — the inflation ...

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The Supreme Court’s ruling to limit a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act this week adds a new bend to the winding history of Black representation in Congress, fueling fear from civil rights ...

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The promise of democratic governance was stolen from the people. We must win it back. You will hear no more disorienting or self-defeating a platitude uttered on Capitol Hill in this 250th year of the ...