Congress begins a new session Friday with Republicans now leading both chambers. The House will need to elect a speaker ...

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley has again assumed the position of Senate president pro tempore, putting him third in the presidential line of succession.

In an extraordinary turn, a judge Friday set President-elect Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case for Jan. 10 — ...

Divided Republicans in the House of Representatives failed to elect a speaker in the opening round of voting Friday by ...

It's early days yet, and with a two-seat majority, House Speaker Mike Johnson has his work cut out for him. But Friday's re-election is a positive sign for the next two years.

A new poll finds that Republican voters are more confident in the accuracy of U.S. elections now that Donald Trump has won.

Republicans expressed happiness and relief to have elected Speaker Johnson so quickly on Friday, avoiding the lengthy process to elect Speaker McCarthy in the last Congress.

Johnson has publicly expressed confidence that he will retain the speaker's gavel, but spent the final day before the vote on Capitol Hill meeting with Republican holdouts.

Governor DeWine has not said publicly who's on his shortlist for the Senate seat or the timeline for his decision.

House members applauded an official announcement on Friday that former Republican Representative Matt Gaetz will not return ...

Judge Juan Merchan indicated that he’d sentence Trump to what’s known as a conditional discharge, in which a case gets ...