Just hours after Republican Sen. John Thune was elected as the incoming Senate majority leader, President-elect Donald Trump ...

NEW YORK — (AP) — Maribel Hidalgo fled her native Venezuela a year ago with a 1-year-old son, trudging for days through ...

Federal authorities say an investigation into Chinese government hacking efforts has revealed a “broad and significant” ...

WASHINGTON — (AP) — Donald Trump has had few defenders in Congress as reliable as Matt Gaetz, who has thundered at one ...

WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Arizona on Wednesday. The first-term Republican won a rematch against Democrat Kirsten Engel, whom ...

Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he was detained by police at an ...

WASHINGTON — (AP) — Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, completing the party's sweep into power and securing their hold on U.S. government alongside President-elect Donald ...

TAMPA, Fla. — (AP) — A California teenager pleaded guilty Wednesday in a case involving the swatting of a Florida mosque among other institutions and individuals, federal prosecutors said. Alan W.

Democrat Dave Min won election to a U.S. House seat representing California on Wednesday, holding a competitive district for House Democrats ...

The fires in the Northeast haven't caused major evacuations, but a Connecticut firefighter died battling a wildfire last ...

Lawyers for the state of Louisiana are asking a federal appeals court in New Orleans to immediately block a judge’s ruling ordering education officials to tell all local districts that a law requiring ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, was once embroiled in a sex trafficking ...