The Latest Breaking News from Washington D.C.

WASHINGTON — Republican Leader Mitch McConnell returned to the U.S. Senate this week following a head injury, where he wasted little time resuming his two trademark modes: targeting Democrats and ducking Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans objected Tuesday to Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer’s bid to temporarily replace California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee.

WASHINGTON — After spending more than $230,000 from his campaign account this year on lawyers and related consultants responding to what a spokesman called “an official inquiry,” Sen. Bob Menendez is setting up a legal defense fund.

WASHINGTON — House Republicans are divided over the best mechanism for extending the debt limit deadline and how deep to cut spending in their nascent plan.

WASHINGTON – Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Tuesday he’s satisfied an Amarillo judge who tried to halt distribution of an FDA-approved abortion drug did not mislead the Senate by removing his name from an article bashing Obama administration efforts to protect those seeking abortions.

An impasse created by years of politicized, myopic decision making in Washington is pushing the federal government ever closer to a dangerous cliff.

China is increasing its Antarctic footprint according to new satellite imagery collected by a Washington-based think tank that shows construction has resumed for the first time since 2018 on the country's fifth station in the southern polar region.

Leaked Pentagon documents show that Egypt paused plan to produce rockets for Russia, The Washington Post reports.

WASHINGTON -- Yuko Kishida, the wife of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, visited the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington on Sunday.