The 119th Congress will begin on Friday, ushering in a new era of Republican control in Washington that will start with a high-stakes leadership fight to pick the next House speaker. Mike Johnson is v ...

The FBI is investigating ‘an act of terrorism’ in Bourbon Street, New Orleans, in the French Quarter after a driver behind the wheel of a pick-up truck rammed New Year's revelers.

The new year brings a mixed picture for women’s political representation – the highest glass ceiling in American politics remains intact, but female governors and state legislators are setting new ...

CNN By Lauren Fox, Clare Foran, Sarah Ferris and Haley Talbot, CNN Washington (CNN) — House Speaker Mike Johnson faces a ...

The 39th president helped create the U.S. Department of Education. He had also been a school board member and an ...

Several GOP senators are pressing to see the FBI’s background check on Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick to be the next Defense secretary. The pressure placed on the leaders of the ...

“I’ve encouraged all of the nominees, number one, be out front on the FBI background check ... By arrangement with the White House, the two senators typically review FBI reports on nominees ...

The bill passed unanimously in both the House and Senate ... required national background checks, verification of Social Security numbers and addresses, a name and alias screening and a check ...

There is a “high probability” the personal information of an undetermined number of people — including Social Security and bank account numbers — has been stolen, officials said.

The house has been deemed a total loss. No one was injured and the cause of the fire is believed to be accidental. Skinner said it’s been several years since Plainville’s last deadly fire.

The letter from Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, comes as the Trump team floated using outside firms to do background checks on its nominees ...

An angry wife took swift actions after she caught her husband of 23 years having an affair with another woman She sold the house they lived in and immediately changed her phone number so that her ...