Lawmakers on Capitol Hill conducted a roundtable with leading AI executives and academics to discuss the potential transformative impacts of the technology on American society.

House lawmakers are digging into Jeffrey Epstein’s sprawling financial portfolio.

Here’s a question submitted by an Associated Press reader: Is it legal to fire furloughed federal workers during a shutdown.

Senate Republicans have barely defeated an effort by Democrats to insert language into Congress’ annual defense authorization bill that would have forced the public release of case files on the sex trafficking investigation into the late Jeffrey Epstein.

Democrat James Walkinshaw has won the special election to be Virginia’s next U.S. House representative. Walkinshaw has sat on the board of the state’s most populous county for five years. He also served as the former chief of staff for the late U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly, who previously held the congressional seat. Tuesday’s special election was set after Connolly died of esophageal cancer in May. Walkinshaw defeated Republican Stewart Whitson. Republicans only have a razor-thin edge in the House. Walkinshaw’s victory only adds to their spending battles this month ahead of a potential government shutdown.

Voters in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington will choose a replacement Tuesday for the late Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly, who died in May after battling cancer.

Democrats and Republicans in northern Virginia have chosen candidates who will vie to replace the late U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly.