Pelosi Takes Speaker's Gavel As House Democrats Assume Power
President Donald Trump congratulated Nancy Pelosi on her victory in a surprise statement to reporters in the White House briefing room Thursday afternoon.
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President Donald Trump congratulated Nancy Pelosi on her victory in a surprise statement to reporters in the White House briefing room Thursday afternoon.
Lawmakers have already filed more than 500 bills for the legislative session that begins Tuesday, January 8.
The last meeting between Democratic leaders and Mr. Trump occurred three weeks ago.
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren took a formal step toward a potential 2020 presidential campaign Monday, announcing that she is forming an exploratory committee.
The government shutdown is in its second week, with President Trump and congressional Democrats still at an impasse over border wall funding.
A federal judge in Texas who recently declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional has stayed his ruling to allow for appeals.
U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a potential candidate in the 2020 presidential election, is calling for donations and help after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement dropped off at least 200 migrants at the El Paso, Texas, bus station.
The stock market didn't offer any presents to investors Christmas Eve.
A top White House official signaled Sunday that President Donald Trump is willing to accept less money than he's been demanding to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
The presidential libraries in Texas of George H.W. Bush and his son George W. Bush are being impacted during the U.S. government's partial shutdown.
The Texas Commission on Public School Finance, consisting of mostly state legislators and educators, had spent nearly one year compiling the report.
More than 420,000 federal employees would have to go to work without pay, according to that report from the Senate Appropriations Committee.
A private effort by a Florida veteran to fund a border wall has brought in nearly 13 million dollars.
Defense Secretary James Mattis will leave the Trump Administration at the end of February, he informed President Trump in a letter Thursday. The defense secretary said he is stepping down because of the differences in viewpoints with Mr. Trump.
It's being called insulting, demeaning and dehumanizing. San Antonio Police are investigating a – now removed – sign left outside the city's Holocaust Museum this week.
