Congress is enjoying a long July Fourth recess, which is a convenient cover for its current state of total paralysis. Donald Trump and his most fervent acolytes in both the House and Senate want to ...

Alison is a senior news reporter covering US politics and legal news. Sean "Diddy" Combs poses with now-President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump. Trump is discussing granting clemency to ...

With just a few months to go before voting starts in the midterm elections, the Republican-controlled Congress has become completely jammed by Donald Trump’s insistence that it find a way to pass the ...

WASHINGTON — Resentment is building in Republican circles over President Donald Trump’s quixotic effort to pass a bill that would rewrite the nation’s election laws, along with a fear that he will use ...

Politico has a new piece out today reporting on a quiet, but apparently universally known, concern among Republicans in Congress: that the mail-in voting restrictions that President Trump is ...

The release of a mandatory financial disclosure for 2025 shows that the Trump family’s holdings, particularly the president’s crypto businesses, were stunningly lucrative. By Ben Protess Andrea Fuller ...

President Donald Trump on Monday blasted a Supreme Court opinion upholding a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots received up to five days after Election Day to be counted. The ruling in Watson ...

President Donald Trump at an Oval Office press conference on Monday reacted to the Supreme Court's rulings over mail-in ballots and presidential firings. Trump called out Republican Senators, ...

President Trump is refusing to sign a bipartisan housing bill until a separate election bill is passed. The housing bill, co-sponsored by Sens. Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren, aims to lower housing ...

Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington ...

Just hours before President Donald Trump was scheduled to sign a bipartisan housing bill Wednesday, he refused to act on it until Congress sent the SAVE America Act to his desk, raising the question ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson headed to the White House a day after the president canceled a signing ceremony for a housing bill, using it as leverage for elections legislation he deems urgent. House ...