MIAMI--With Democrats drawing up articles of impeachment on Capitol Hill, a brash and confident President Donald Trump took a day trip to South Florida Saturday, where in separate events he helped the Republican Party of Florida raise millions of dollars and declared himself the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House.

Trump, ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders are taking a victory lap after Amazon.com Inc. and other technology giants leased millions of square feet of office space in New York City -- without the billions of dollars in government support that Amazon tried to negotiate earlier this ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said that his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, plans to prepare a report for the U.S. Justice Department and Congress about allegations of misconduct the former New York mayor says he uncovered during a recent trip to Ukraine.

Trump said Giuliani, a central figure in the impeachment investigation into ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee on Friday unveiled an updated version of their bipartisan drug pricing bill, though it's unclear if the changes will appease skeptical Republican senators.

The renewed push for Republican support by Chairman Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and the committee's ranking Democrat, Ron Wyden of ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court refused to clear the federal government to resume executions next week after a 16-year hiatus, rejecting a bid by President Donald Trump's administration to lift a court-ordered hold.

The Justice Department had sought to have the trial judge's hold lifted in time for Daniel Lewis Lee to be put to death next ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Rep. George Holding, a North Carolina Republican, will not run for reelection in 2020 after his Republican-leaning district was redrawn into safe Democratic seat by state lawmakers.

Holding is in his fourth term in Congress. He said he would consider a return to elected office in the future. Holding said earlier this week that a ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Democrats' campaign to regain control of the House in 2018 included a pledge to restore a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. But a vote Friday signals their legislation is headed nowhere.

Their bill passed along party lines, 228-187, with only one Republican, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, voting "yes." It was ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump's latest target for deregulation is Americans' toilets.

The president on Friday said he ordered a federal review of water efficiency standards in bathroom fixtures and complained that "people are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times as opposed to once" in homes with low-flow appliances.

He said other bathroom fixtures...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Democrats will unveil major climate legislation in the spring after the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis releases a set of recommendations, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Friday.

Pelosi said House Democrats would follow the conclusions of the committee, which was established at the start of this Congress and has ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Days after Rep. Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty to a federal felony related to a yearslong campaign finance scandal, he has finally stated explicitly that he will resign from his congressional seat before the end of his term.

"Shortly after the holidays I will resign from Congress," Hunter, R-Calif., in a statement. "It has been an ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- When Rep. Duncan D. Hunter on Monday wanted to make it known he would plead guilty to in the federal campaign finance case against him, he turned to a friendly local news station to deliver a heavily curated message.

The Alpine, Calif., Republican appeared on KUSI, a station where he had been interviewed many times at the anchor ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Lawyers for President Donald Trump told the Supreme Court on Thursday the Constitution shields the chief executive from being forced to disclose his tax returns in response to a subpoena from Congress.

"Imposing financial disclosure requirements on the president intrudes in an area that the Constitution fences off," they said in ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump this week gave members of Congress a glimpse at a new and distressing weapon in partisan warfare -- the exposure of lawmakers' call records as part of congressional oversight.

The House Intelligence Committee report in its investigation into Trump's dealings with Ukraine included...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The House Ethics Committee notified Rep. Duncan Hunter that his recent guilty plea means he should no longer cast votes in the House. The instruction is not mandatory, but the panel threatened action against him if he continues to vote.

Hunter last voted on Wednesday, in favor of a measure to crack down on robocalls. He did not ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- On the day Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., pleaded guilty to misuse of campaign funds in federal court, a GOP stalwart seeking Hunter's congressional seat was publicly discussing a possibility that had previously only been "what-if" chatter among people following the case.

In an interview with The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is moving forward on calls to classify Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations after the killing last month of nine U.S. citizens in Mexico, with top officials seeking to reach a decision this week, according to three people familiar with the matter.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet ...Read more

Young people facing homelessness as they age out of the foster care system soon could have easier access to federal housing vouchers.

Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, is joining with Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican, to propose legislation they say would alter the Family Unification Program to help prevent homelessness for youth aging...Read more