Washington Monthly Politics Editor Bill Scher says the panic voters are feeling at President Donald Trump’s midterm election ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday laughed off President Trump’s call for Republicans to nationalize U.S. elections in ...

Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine voted with their Democratic colleagues on Friday to ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff whether his party is willing to allow a partial government shutdown in order to block new funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

What started as sharp criticism of the Homeland Security secretary, and a longshot move by Democratic lawmakers signing onto ...

N.Y., and his caucus want the DHS funding bill stripped from the broader package, teeing up a partial government shutdown in the process.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is coming under increasing pressure from Senate Republican colleagues to bring health care legislation to the Senate floor amid fears of a Democratic wave in ...

President Donald Trump recently flirted with invoking the Insurrection Act again. This time, it was over the anti-ICE protests and some unrest in Minnesota. However, a different act of Congress could ...

Students across St. Paul public schools protest at a massive walkout to the State Capitol to protest ICE actions in Minnesota. Will the Supreme Court allow President Donald Trump to invoke the ...

President Donald Trump, who has periodically threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act before reconsidering, performed that familiar two-step again last week. "I don't think I need it right now," ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., warned that President Donald Trump’s growing threats against her home state, including possibly invoking ...