Former Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, the first Republican woman to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee and the first Republican woman elected to Congress from Texas, has died at age 83...

The California Democratic Party voted Sunday to endorse a November ballot measure imposing a one-time tax on billionaires' wealth, breaking with Gov. Gavin Newsom and several of the state's most influential labor unions...

Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville said Sunday he would leave the Democratic Party if left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker emerges as a major force within it, underscoring growing ideological tensions between establishment Democrats...

Key senators unveiled a short-term spending bill on Sunday that would keep federal agencies funded past the midterm elections and into early December as they look to avoid a government shutdown during the middle of campaign season.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill's office will investigate former White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci following a contentious Senate hearing in which he repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination...

The death toll from a mass rush of migrants from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta last week reached at least 72 on Sunday, as five more bodies were found along the North African coast, officials said.

What is very likely to be the last reelection bid of Brazil's President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva was confirmed on Sunday by his Workers' Party as the 80-year-old leader faces increasing pressure from foreign leaders ahead of October's elections.

About 5,000 homes have been evacuated and about 600 homes, businesses and other buildings have been destroyed by wildfires that remained uncontained Sunday in eastern Washington state, authorities said.

At least 14 people were killed in a suspected suicide bombing outside a police station in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, a rescue group and a regional police official said, as the country battles widening insurgencies.

A new Trafalgar Group tracking poll suggests South Carolina's Republican special election for the U.S. Senate is rapidly becoming a three-way battle, with Rep. Russell Fry emerging as a serious contender and raising new questions...

Rep. Marcy Kaptur was hospitalized Sunday after being injured in a hit-and-run crash while traveling to church, the Ohio Democrat's office announced on X. Kaptur's office said the 80-year-old congresswoman was a passenger in a vehicle...

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Sunday pressed Senate Republicans to end the standoff over acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's confirmation, calling the delay indefensible even as two GOP holdouts continue to demand written concessions on a stalled...

Israel's President Isaac Herzog on Sunday accused New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of spreading antisemitic rhetoric and endangering Jewish residents.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani could be deported under a Cold War-era law because of his political ideology, radio host and author Michael Savage said Sunday on Newsmax.

Cyberattacks carried out by two OpenAI artificial intelligence models acting autonomously raise a novel legal question: who is responsible when AI goes rogue?In mid-July, two OpenAI models undergoing testing left their confined environment -- a scenario the developers had...

U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno said his former son-in-law, U.S Rep. Max Miller, should not be serving in the House and should "seek professional help" as Miller defended himself against allegations of domestic abuse in a live video on X Sunday.Moreno, who has been restrained in...

Congress is still not receiving enough information from the Pentagon about the conflict with Iran, even though lawmakers in both parties continue to press the Department of War for more detailed briefings, Rep. Mike Turner said Sunday.

Senate Republicans are focused on passing several major priorities before leaving Washington for the August recess, Sen. James Lankford said Sunday, while dismissing criticism that lawmakers are preparing to depart with unfinished business.

"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" made box office history in its first weekend in theaters. The Sony-released superhero movie became the second biggest North American opening ever with an astonishing $355 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. It was just...

Mainstream Democrats are openly worried that progressive victories in Tuesday's Michigan primaries could hand Republicans a Senate seat and a swing House district that party leaders have spent millions trying to protect, with polling showing the progressive front-runner...

OPEC+ approved an oil production quota increase on Sunday of around 188,000 barrels per day from September, the producer group said, in a move that completes the unwinding of a layer of voluntary output cuts.Due to export disruptions from the Gulf, Russia and Kazakhstan...

Democrat Troy Jackson is running for U.S. Senate in Maine on a working-class, rural-roots brand, but his hometown of Allagash, a one-road hamlet of roughly 200 people near the Canadian border, is anything but united behind him, according to a new report.

Hungary faces a critical five days, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Sunday, as the drying out of the Danube forces the country's sole nuclear power plant to shut for the first time in over four decades, with a new heatwave looming.Large parts of Europe have been hit...

U.S. employment data and a batch of corporate results this coming week will keep equity investors on edge over the direction of the stock market, which has been buffeted by geopolitical tensions, uncertain interest-rate policy and sizable moves in heavyweight technology...

Ken Martin is in survival mode.Desperate to save his job as chair of the Democratic National Committee, he is avoiding media appearances, monitoring his critics' social media posts and refusing - at least so far - to make any substantive changes at his troubled...