WASHINGTON -- The head of U.S. Border Patrol defended using military personnel at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying extra resources are needed "as long as we face this crisis" of an influx of migrants.

Speaking at a House Homeland Security hearing Thursday, Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost said apprehensions and drug seizures at the border have ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders seem to be on a collision course over the issue of raising members' pay, as the two majority leaders in the House and Senate are heading in opposite directions on the politically fraught issue.

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer told CQ Roll Call Thursday that he expects to bring the Legislative Branch ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Blue states and green groups are gearing up to sue the Trump administration over its new carbon emissions rule finalized Wednesday, which critics say fails to address climate change and the public health risks associated with pollution from the power sector.

The EPA's Affordable Clean Energy rule rescinds the Obama administration'...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Ralph Norman is determined to put a stop, once and for all, to government funding for celebrations of hobos and hobo-related activity.

Earlier this month, the South Carolina Republican filed an amendment to an appropriations package that would prohibit a certain type of federal funding "to any school to celebrate Hobo Day," ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A decade after Congress gave the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco products, there is a growing sense that the law should be revisited to address a product that lawmakers barely knew about in June 2009: electronic cigarettes.

The tension lies in how to balance e-cigarettes' potential benefits with ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats finally had the chance Wednesday to question a former member of President Donald Trump's inner circle about the findings of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report.

They didn't get much.

Hope Hicks, acting under the direction of the White House, declined to answer questions in the closed-door hearing about ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Dave Chappelle has a sketch imagining a future in which African Americans are awarded reparative damages due from centuries of American slavery and discrimination. The routine features newly rich black people "blowing" their reparation payments on rims, menthol cigarettes and rap record labels. The sketch is a smorgasbord of ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A large majority of Americans feel the nation's political discourse has become more negative, as well as less respectful, fact-based and substantive -- and they say President Donald Trump is a major reason.

A Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday showed that more than half of the respondents said Trump has changed the tone...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director, angered Democrats Wednesday by declining to answer some questions during a closed-door session with members and staff of the House Judiciary Committee investigating President Donald Trump.

The White House had already warned the committee's Democratic chairman, Rep. ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Senate appropriators approved $4.59 billion in emergency funding Wednesday to address the influx of migrants at the southern border, and their House counterparts said they're prepping a similar bill to bring to the floor as soon as Tuesday.

The measure appropriators sent to the Senate floor provides slightly less than President ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled its final plan to rewrite a major Obama-era climate change policy, replacing proposed regulations that cracked down on coal-burning power plants with a weaker alternative.

The administration's plan would gut the Clean Power Plan, a sweeping climate change policy to curb greenhouse gas...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump again refused to apologize for promoting false accusations against five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted for the 1989 rape of a jogger in New York City, even though they were exonerated by DNA evidence.

Trump has long been attached to the case of the "Central Park Five" because he ran a full-...Read more