WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump chose the day that secretive Senate Republicans released their much-anticipated health care bill to finally end some suspense of his own making: No, he hasn't been surreptitiously recording conversations in the White House.

In Twitter messages posted just before a scheduled White House news briefing Thursday...Read more

WASHINGTON -- On the day Senate Republicans released their until now secret health care bill, President Donald Trump used Twitter to answer a question hanging over his embattled presidency: He does not have recordings of his conversations with former FBI Director James B. Comey.

The president and his top aides had promised to provide ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that he hopes House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi stays as leader of the Democrats.

But Trump's tweet was not well-wishing. Rather, Trump said "it would be very bad for the Republican Party" if Pelosi were forced out.

Trump's tweet came amid criticism from some Democrats that the House ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Between the large crowds, record-breaking fundraising, a heroic first pitch, bipartisanship throughout the stadium and the game itself, it was hard to pinpoint just one takeaway at Wednesday's Congressional Women's Softball Game.

The press team, known as the Bad News Babes, won the ninth annual game, 2-1, against the members of ...Read more

Back on the road in Iowa on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump at a campaign-style rally signaled he is unconcerned with garnering Democratic support on legislation and warned foes they are "lucky" his supporters are not the protesting kind.

The president returned to the combative and provocative style he used during the 2016 GOP primary ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The ingredients are all coming into place for a tense, unpredictable 2017 budget showdown and maybe even a shutdown, thanks to a Republican Party energized by Tuesday's two House victories.

The wins by GOP candidates in special elections in Georgia and South Carolina sent a message that cooperating with Democrats was not ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Republican congressional staffers remain hopeful that they'll enact significant legislation in 2017, but their Democratic counterparts are gaining confidence that they can block the GOP agenda, according to the June Capitol Insiders Survey of Hill aides.

Two-thirds of the Republican respondents expected it's at least somewhat ...Read more

The shooter that injured five people, including a member of Congress, had a list in his pocket with the names of six members of Congress on it when he started firing at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Va., last week, FBI officials said at a news conference Wednesday.

Andrew W. Vale, assistant director in charge of the FBI ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday implicitly blamed his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, for the death of American college student Otto Warmbier, calling it "a total disgrace" that the young man did not get to return home from captivity in North Korea until last week.

"Frankly, if he were brought home sooner, I think ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- What may be a small procedural obstacle has some senior Democrats crying foul over the House's plans for new sanctions against Iran and Russia.

The Senate-passed bill to impose new sanctions on the two countries has a blue slip issue in the House, where the parliamentarian has determined it violates the Origination Clause of the ...Read more

MADISON, Wis. -- The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a case that found Wisconsin Republicans overreached in 2011 by drawing legislative districts that were so favorable to them that they violated the U.S. Constitution.

In a related ruling Monday, the high court handed Republicans a victory by blocking a lower court ruling that the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Silicon Valley badly needs high-skilled tech workers and plenty of them live in other countries -- and America's tech leaders are concerned that the Trump administration doesn't understand their needs.

Peter Leroe-Munoz, vice president of technology and innovation policy for the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a trade association...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Top Democrats are broadening their scrutiny of President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, to inquire about a trip to the Middle East he did not disclose as required for renewal of his top-level security clearance.

In a letter to Flynn's attorney Monday requesting documents, the senior Democrats on ...Read more