A top counterterrorism official and staunch MAGA Republican resigned over the war with Iran, claiming that Israel had misled President Donald Trump into believing that the regime in Tehran posed an imminent threat.
Former President Bill Clinton told the House panel investigating Jeffrey Epstein that former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers introduced him to the disgraced financier after Clinton departed the White House.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump said he doesn’t need to go to Congress to restore his sweeping global tariffs after the Supreme Court decision Friday that struck them down.
President Donald Trump, joined by Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republican members of the House and Senate, speaks during a Feb. 3 bill signing.
China is providing crucial support for Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and could end the war with a phone call, US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said.
Matthew Whitaker, US ambassador to NATO, speaks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. Nuclear deterrence is set to be a hot topic at the conference.
President Donald Trump did himself no favors Wednesday night when he used public calls for retribution to strong-arm most House Republicans into backing his tariff agenda despite widespread voter discontent over the cost of living.
President Donald Trump speaks at the White House on Thursday.
Donald Trump’s tariff policies suffered their strongest political blow yet with the Republican-led US House passing legislation aimed at ending the president’s levies on Canadian imports.
US President Donald Trump Photographer: Shawn Thew/EPA
Donald Trump’s tariff policies suffered their strongest political blow yet with the Republican-led US House passing legislation aimed at ending the president’s levies on Canadian imports.
US President Donald Trump Photographer: Shawn Thew/EPA
House lawmakers are set to vote Wednesday on whether to reject some of President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, ahead of a midterm election focused heavily on anxiety over the US cost of living.
US House Speaker Mike Johnson Photographer: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg
Senior US immigration officials told House lawmakers that officers involved in federal operations in Minnesota were trained on constitutional limits, crowd control and the use of force, as Congress scrutinizes two fatal shootings that occurred during enforcement actions earlier this year.
Rodney Scott, from left, Joseph Edlow, and Todd Lyons arrive for a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington on Feb. 10. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg
House Republicans on Monday advanced a procedural motion to block a vote on President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda, potentially delaying a politically uncomfortable vote on his most prominent economic policy until at least July.
US House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. A Democratic-led bill that would extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years is set for a House vote in early January, as Congress leaves Washington until the new year.
Republicans are increasingly nervous that President Donald Trump’s slipping support on immigration and the economy — two key issues that helped him win in 2024 — could cost them the midterm elections. The Super Bowl halftime show won’t help their anxiety.
Bad Bunny during the 68th GRAMMY Awards on Feb. 1 in Los Angeles.
The US renewed a trade preference program with African nations for one year though the step has little immediate impact because of global tariffs President Donald Trump imposed.
A container ship docked at the Port of Cape Town, operated by Transnet National Ports Authority, in Cape Town, South Africa, on Monday, May 13, 2024. The chaos that's enveloped Transnet — beset by corruption, theft and dilapidated equipment — is the biggest threat to the continued export of citrus fruits, a rare economic success story in South Africa's ailing economy.
The partial US government shutdown ended late Tuesday after President Donald Trump signed into law a funding deal he negotiated with Senate Democrats, overcoming opposition from both ends of the political spectrum amid a standoff over his administration’s immigration crackdown.
The US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. Political turmoil in the US House over President Donald Trump's immigration raids risks prolonging a partial government shutdown that began Saturday.
Some Republicans are expressing second thoughts on the immigration crackdown.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, arrives for a news conference following the weekly Senate Democrat policy luncheon at the US Capitol in Washington on Jan. 28. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg
Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor of Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, traveled to Minneapolis Tuesday to visit the site of nurse Alex Pretti’s killing by a Border Patrol agent amid a national outcry over the shooting.
House Democrats are kicking off 2026 with the political winds blowing in their favor: advantageous polling, voters underwhelmed with President Donald Trump’s second term and a history of opposition gains in midterm elections.
Representative Suzan DelBene, a Democrat from Washington, during a rally for healthcare funding outside the US Capitol on Sept. 30.
Former President Bill Clinton defied a House Republican committee’s subpoena Tuesday in an escalating battle over Congress’s handling of an investigation of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The Republican-controlled House voted to sustain Donald Trump’s vetoes of two pieces of legislation despite concerns among some lawmakers from both parties that the president’s actions amounted to acts of retribution.
President Donald Trump’s iron grip on the House GOP will be tested Thursday in a series of votes focusing on health care, government spending and an attempt to override vetoes he issued late last month.
President Donald Trump implored Republicans to turn around their political fortunes ahead of November’s midterm elections, warning that if Democrats retake control of Congress, he would be impeached for a third time.
President Donald Trump addresses a House Republican retreat at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Jan. 6.
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