Florida is poised to join the wave of states debating how they might reshape congressional voting districts, as political parties grapple for an edge in next year’s midterm elections.

Incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Warner has officially announced he will seek reelection to continue serving the Commonwealth.

Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a social media video urging U.S. troops to defy “illegal orders” say the FBI has contacted them to begin scheduling interviews.

The U.S. House is back in session after a multi-week hiatus.

Congress is sending President Donald Trump a bill to compel the Justice Department to make public its case files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Both the House and Senate acted decisively Tuesday to pass a bill to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Now that the government shutdown is over, House and Senate Republicans say they'll negotiate with Democrats on whether to extend COVID-era tax credits that help tens of millions of Americans afford their health care premiums.

Balmain has named French designer Antonin Tron as its new creative director.

President Donald Trump has signed a government funding bill that ends a record 43-day shutdown.

The Senate has passed legislation to reopen the government, bringing the longest shutdown in history closer to an end after a small group of Democrats struck a deal with Republicans.

Maine Democratic Rep. Jared Golden says he will not seek reelection.

The Senate approved a resolution Tuesday evening that would nullify President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, including oil, coffee and orange juice, as Democrats test GOP senators’ support for Trump’s trade policy.

A shortage of air traffic controllers has caused more flight disruptions at airports across the country.

Notices of rising health insurance premiums are landing in voters’ mailboxes and sending some to town halls to vent their frustration.

The Federal Aviation Administration says flights departing for Los Angeles International Airport were halted briefly due to a staffing shortage at a Southern California air traffic facility.

The Senate on Thursday rejected dueling partisan bills to pay federal workers during the government shutdown, with both Republicans and Democrats deflecting blame as many employees are set to miss their first full paycheck at the end of this week.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a lawsuit that seeks to get Democrat Adelita Grijalva sworn in as the state’s newest member of Congress after House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to seat her for a month since winning the post.

Barack Obama is entering the fight for U.S. House control.

Eleanor Holmes Norton has been an outspoken advocate for the District of Columbia during her 18 terms as the city's delegate in Congress.

House members' absence during the government shutdown is creating a political dilemma for Republican Speaker Mike Johnson and is testing his leadership.

Democrats are ramping up pressure on Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in the newest member of Congress.

The Senate has voted to repeal the resolution that authorized the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, following a House vote last month that would return the basic war power to Congress more than two decades later.

A new outpatient treatment facility aimed at helping those struggling with substance abuse is set to open next week on Peters Creek Road in Roanoke, marking another step forward in the city’s improving battle against drug addiction.

Miriam’s House announced Monday that it plans to convert its building at 409 Magnolia Street into a dedicated emergency shelter for families with children facing homelessness.

Here’s a question submitted by an Associated Press reader: Who gets paid during a federal shutdown.

Political leaders in Washington are spending much of their energy these days blaming the other party for what could be a significant government shutdown.

President Donald Trump is using the federal shutdown to push deep spending cuts in states that backed Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024.

A new poll conducted just prior to the current government shutdown showed most Americans wanted Congress to extend tax credits that could expire at the end of the year.

New Mexico legislators moved quickly to prop up funding for food assistance and rural health care services in response to President Donald Trump’s cuts in federal spending on Medicaid and nutrition programs.

A week after her decisive win in an Arizona special election for the U.S. House, Democrat Adelita Grijalva has yet to take office.

The North Carolina legislature has approved a criminal justice package in response to the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on Charlotte's light rail.

North Carolina Republican legislators have introduced criminal justice measures to toughen bail rules and evaluate offenders for mental health issues.

A number of charities have severed ties with Prince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson after British newspapers published an email that she reportedly wrote to the late convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.

A possible federal shutdown is looming at month's end, and the Democratic leaders of Congress are demanding a meeting with President Donald Trump to negotiate.

The House has passed a resolution honoring the late Charlie Kirk over significant Democratic opposition.

The Senate rejected competing measures to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government shutdown on that date.

Democratic leaders are lashing out at a stop-gap spending bill to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of the month.

There’s bipartisan support in Congress for extending tax credits that have made health insurance more affordable for millions of people since the COVID-19 pandemic.

North Carolina's Republican legislative leaders are pushing for stricter pretrial release laws after a Ukrainian refugee was fatally stabbed on a Charlotte train.

Some National Guard troops from outside the District of Columbia will remain in the nation’s capital at least through the end of November at the request of the Trump administration.

Two teenagers have been arrested on murder charges in the killing of a congressional intern who was struck by stray bullets during a shooting in the nation’s capital.

It's an issue uniting the left and the right.

The NCAA is considering a rule requiring incoming Division I athletes to disclose name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals from high school or junior college.

A Democratic U.S. lawmaker sent a letter to leaders at the more than 350 Division I schools across the country, warning of a two-tier college system with haves and have-nots if a proposed bill to regulate the industry passes without changes.

Roanoke’s State of the City address highlighted homelessness and addiction as continuing challenges, with local groups like RAM House and Roanoke Valley Collective Response stressing that breaking stereotypes is key to providing support.

A California hearing on Democrats' redistricting effort turned into a shouting match Tuesday.

Democrats have unveiled a proposal that could give California’s dominant political party an additional five U.S. House seats in a bid to win the fight to control Congress next year.

The Voting Rights Act was signed into law 60 years ago but has been slowly eroding for more than a decade.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants George Santos' seven-year prison sentence to be commuted.

Texas Democrats have fled the state in an effort to keep Republicans from approving a new U.S. House map that could boost their slim congressional majority next year.

Democrats are launching a nationwide summer blitz designed to force vulnerable Republicans to defend President Donald Trump’s big tax and spending bill, especially Medicaid cuts.

The wave of lawsuits from college athletes seeking another season of eligibility seems to be slowing down.

A key House committee is looking into the investigation of the late Jeffrey Epstein for sex trafficking crimes.

Redistricting usually happens after the once-a-decade population count by the U.S. Census Bureau or in response to a court ruling.

Statehouses across the U.S. are addressing long-standing bathroom disparities for female lawmakers.

A House Republican is seeking to censure Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey over an incident stemming from a congressional oversight visit to a new immigration detention facility in her state.

A House subcommittee has voted to subpoena the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

Texas Republicans are poised to redraw the state’s congressional map during a special session that starts Monday.

The number of people still missing in a Texas county ravaged by deadly flooding over the Fourth of July holiday weekend now stands at three, down from nearly 100.

President Donald Trump has signed the GENIUS Act into law, setting new regulations for stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency tied to assets like the U.S. dollar.

In Alaska, a public radio station general manager took a moment from a busy day warning her community about a possible tsunami for a special task — sending a text message to Sen. Lisa Murkowski urging her to vote against a measure to strip federal funding of NPR and PBS.

House Republicans are struggling with cryptocurrency legislation that they had expected to pass during what they dubbed “crypto week.”.

The man accused of killing two women at a Kentucky church and wounding a state trooper in separate shootings had been expected in court for a domestic violence hearing the next day.

Dartmouth College and the University of Notre Dame say they're ending their participation in a Chinese scholarship program.

As many of us mark July 4th with celebrations and fireworks, some Roanoke residents decided to spend the day protesting Donald Trump and his administration as part of the national “No Kings” protests.

President Donald Trump has signed his tax and spending bill into law after Republicans muscled it through Congress.

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein has vetoed three anti-DEI bills and another targeting transgender rights.

House Republicans strained through a day of starts and stops trying to advance President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts package.

The NCAA’s House settlement era has launched, with athletic programs across the country free to start paying millions to their athletes in the biggest change in the history of college athletics.

At some 887 pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Republicans “got the job done” in passing President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts.

At some 940 pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations.

At some 940-pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations.

College sports leaders seeking antitrust and other protections from Congress have a potential bargaining chip: School assurances that they will provide funding for their increasingly imperiled Olympic programs, by far the biggest pipeline of talent for Team USA.

One key issue stalling progress on President Donald Trump’s big bill in Congress is particularly daunting.

President Donald Trump says “NO ONE GOES ON VACATION” until the big, beautiful bill is on his desk by the Fourth of July deadline.

The strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities received mixed responses from local lawmakers. The decision garnered criticism from Democrats such as Sen. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, but was praised by Republican representatives, as well as Gov. Youngkin.

Texas will require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a new state law that will make the state the nation’s largest to attempt to impose such a mandate.

House and Senate Republicans are taking different approaches when it comes to the tax cuts that lawmakers are looking to include in their massive tax bill.

A proposal by Senate Republicans would adjust the pace at which some crucial home energy efficiency and electric vehicle tax credits are phased out in timelines different from what House Republicans proposed in the multitrillion-dollar tax bill they passed last month.

The Senate has passed legislation that would regulate a form of cryptocurrency known as stablecoins.

Threats to members of Congress are on the rise, security officials told senators at an emergency briefing in the wake of the killing of a Minnesota state lawmaker in her home over the weekend.

The House has passed bipartisan legislation aimed at cracking down on fentanyl.

The latest effort by Congress to regulate college sports is generating predictable partisan outrage.

More than 2 million acres of federal lands would be sold or transferred to states or other entities under a budget proposal from Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee.

The Senate has set an ambitious timeline to pass President Donald Trump’s sweeping legislation to cut taxes and spending.

Chiseling away at President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

A new analysis finds that more than $14 billion in clean energy projects in the U.S. have been canceled this year.

Former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York has died at age 94.

A push to put the Ten Commandments on display in all Texas public school classrooms is closer to reaching Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's desk.

Speaker Mike Johnson was rushing through the halls of the Capitol during the overnight House vote on President Donald Trump's big tax bill.

House Republicans are jubilant about muscling through President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax and immigration package by a single vote.

The budget reconciliation bill passed by House Republicans early Thursday would gut clean energy tax credits that Democrats approved three years ago.

House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package, with Speaker Mike Johnson defying the skeptics and unifying his ranks to muscle President Donald Trump’s priority bill to approval.

House Republicans have taken a major step forward on President Donald Trump’s agenda.

House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package, with Speaker Mike Johnson defying the skeptics and unifying his ranks to muscle President Donald Trump’s priority bill to approval Thursday.

Republicans have made several late changes to their tax cut and immigration bill.

House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package.

House Republicans are getting closer to passing President Donald Trump’s tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security.

President Donald Trump has signed the Take It Down Act into law.