WASHINGTON -- Although Tuesday's long day of heated debate ended with the House voting to condemn President Donald Trump for racist tweets, the chamber's brawl over the president's behavior may be just beginning.

The House voted, 240-187, to approve a nonbinding resolution that says the chamber "strongly condemns" Trump's "racist comments that ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- An upcoming Senate bill is the Trump administration's best hope for a significant achievement before next year's election to lower prescription drug prices, but a lot still needs to go right for anything to become law.

Despite the overwhelming desire for action, there are still policy gulfs between Republicans and Democrats in the...Read more

WASHINGTON -- For all the tumult and anger that President Donald Trump's verbal attacks on four minority lawmakers have caused, he has been clear about his political motives: Drive a wedge through the country that forces each side to its corner.

Trump is betting he can repeat the formula that won him election in 2016, widening the nation's ...Read more

NEW YORK -- The Trump administration has agreed to a court order that would formally block it from asking about citizenship on the 2020 Census, U.S. lawyers told a judge.

New York and immigrant advocacy groups successfully sued to block the question, including a win in the Supreme Court in June, prompting President Donald Trump to claim he was ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Threats against members of Congress continue to grow, Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund said Tuesday at his first appearance as head of the department before the House Administration Committee.

"We continue to see the threat assessment cases that we're opening continue to grow," Sund said. "For FY 2018, we had approximately 4,894 ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- For all the tumult and anger that President Donald Trump's verbal attacks on four minority lawmakers have caused, he has been clear about his political motives: Drive a wedge through the country that forces each side to its corner.

Trump is betting he can repeat the formula that won him election in 2016, widening the nation's ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump delivered some of the most incendiary comments of his presidency on Monday, signaling that he intends to build his reelection bid as much around divisive racial and cultural issues as on low unemployment and economic growth.

The rhetoric sparked unusual pushback from several Republicans, and led to a ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration moved Monday to in effect end asylum for the vast majority of migrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border, an enormous shift in policy that could block hundreds of thousands of people from seeking protection in the U.S. -- and is certain to draw legal challenges.

The new rule, published in the Federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Four liberal House Democrats on Monday lambasted President Donald Trump's tweets as "xenophobic," "bigoted" and unworthy of the White House in an unusual standoff between first-year House lawmakers and a U.S. president.

"This is the agenda of white nationalists," said Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who accused Trump of trying to ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her three allies in Congress said verbal attacks from President Donald Trump won't distract them from their agenda as they decried his tweets as racist.

"I am not surprised that he uses the rhetoric he does," Ocasio-Cortez said of the president. "But I also know that we are focused."

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WASHINGTON -- While Democrats were united in their condemnation of President Donald Trump's call for four members of Congress to "go back" to "the crime infested countries from which they came," nearly no Republicans had publicly rebuked the president a day after his Sunday tirade.

On the Republican side of the aisle, condemnations of Trump for...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants who cross the U.S. southern border as he steps up a crackdown on immigration.

Migrants who fail to apply for protection from persecution or torture while in a third country before entering the U.S. would be ineligible for asylum, under a rule...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Go back where you came from.

It's an insulting remark sometimes flung at new arrivals to the United States, at foreign-born U.S. citizens -- or at those who are native-born but belong to an ethnic minority. It's usually considered a racist taunt.

On Sunday, President Donald Trump denounced " 'progressive' Democrat Congresswomen ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump made a new broadside against a faction of progressive Democrats led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, suggesting they return to the "broken and crime infested places from which they came."

Trump's remarks sparked immediate outrage from Democrats. Representative Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico decried "a ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to clear his administration to start using Pentagon funds for construction of more than 100 miles of fencing along the Mexican border.

Filing an emergency request Friday, the president asked the justices to lift a freeze on the money while a legal fight with the Sierra Club and ...Read more