The Latest Breaking News from Washington D.C.

Tiffany Smiley, a trained nurse, wants to win in Washington state, where a 1991 law protects abortion access

WASHINGTON — Flood maps used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency are out of date and understate the risks to homes and businesses from flooding and extreme rain triggered by climate change, FEMA Director Deanne Criswell said.

For a window into the chaos surrounding the current U.S. immigration policy and its enforcement flaws, you only needed to watch the late news in Chicago Wednesday night. Some 60 exhausted migrants, seemingly mostly from Venezuela, found themselves stumbling off a bus and staring into cameras outside Chicago’s Union Station.

The United States on Friday announced a $1.1 billion arms package for Taiwan, vowing to keep boosting the island's defenses as tensions soar with Beijing, which warned Washington of "counter-measures." The sale comes a month after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defiantly visited the self-governing democracy, prompting mainland China to launch…

WASHINGTON — John Podesta, a veteran Democratic strategist who worked outside the White House to drive support for President Joe Biden’s climate agenda, is joining the administration to spearhead the government’s implementation of the sweeping clean energy law enacted last month.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is considering moves that would restrict U.S. investment in Chinese technology companies amid growing tensions between the United States and China, according to people familiar with the matter.

WASHINGTON — Civil rights leaders warned about the dangers white supremacy poses to the US following a meeting with President Joe Biden.

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service mistakenly published confidential data for 120,000 taxpayers on its website before realizing the error and taking down the data, the Treasury Department said.

WASHINGTON — Twenty-seven documents with classified and top-secret markings were recovered from former President Donald Trump’s office at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to a detailed inventory of what the FBI removed during its court-approved search of the home last month.