Sen. Jon Husted looks on as Vivek Ramaswamy fires up a standing-room-only crowd in Ohio, making the case for why he should be their next governor. It's a speech Husted, just months ago, had expected to give himself.

Lawmakers are navigating a familiar budget crisis, but a rarely used presidential tool is shifting the balance of power and raising stakes for both parties.

President Donald Trump's administration has not widely shared its plans for what functions will cease and what will continue if Congress fails to act.

As Congress approaches its deadline to avert a shutdown, Democrats are seeking a pound of legislative flesh in exchange for any deal.

If there is a silver lining in these dark days for American democracy, it is the pressure test that President Trump and his allies are putting on the Constitution. They are revealing loopholes, gaps and vagueness that let corruption, greed and hate infect the republic.

Three parents whose children died or were hospitalized after interacting with artificial intelligence chatbots called on Congress to regulate AI chatbots on Tuesday, at a U.S. Senate hearing on harms to children using the technology.