Politics

Sensitive information has been posted online from last week’s “significant data breach” of the health insurance marketplace for Washington, D.C., that affected members of Congress, according to Senate staffers briefed on the hack.

First Amendment experts say attacks on free speech rights are escalating across the United States.

Trump attorney Joe Tacopina said his client was following the advice of his then-lawyer Michael Cohen 

Roy McGrath, who faces several fraud charges, failed to show up for his trial Monday.

A lawsuit filed in Texas challenges the FDA approval of medications used to terminate a pregnancy. The judge has been asked to halt access to one drug nationwide.

“I have yet to meet a person in Minnesota that is hungry,” GOP state Sen. Steve Drazkowski said ahead of a vote on the legislation.

Edward Rodriguez, of
Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers, inflicting bodily injury

A Princeton University student was arrested Tuesday on charges that he joined other rioters in pushing against police officers guarding an entrance to the U.S. Capitol during a mob’s attack.

President Joe Biden says he plans to deliver the eulogy at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, who remains under hospice care at his home in south Georgia.

Santos has been denounced by some Republicans and embroiled in a flurry of investigations after admitting he lied about his biography on the campaign trail.

Transgender people in Tennessee would be prevented from changing their driver’s licenses and birth certificates under legislation recently approved by the Republican senators.

A pioneer for women’s and family rights in Congress, former Colorado Rep. Pat Schroeder, has died at the age of 82. Schroeder’s former press secretary says Schroeder suffered a stroke recently and died Monday night at a hospital in Florida, the state where she had been residing. Schroeder was the first woman elected to Congress from Colorado, and s...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has been released from the hospital after treatment for a concussion and will continue to recover in an inpatient rehabilitation facility.