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The House and Senate have reached a spending deal, though it’s unclear how much, if any, funds will be allocated to a border wall.

On the weekend before Thanksgiving, Congress, surprisingly, seemed to beat a deadline.

This past Saturday, negotiators in the House and Senate came to an agreement on top-line numbers for 12 spending bills, the Washington Post reported. These spending

It is a curious experience to wade into a 21st-century national tragedy midstream. I was returning Sunday from an overseas trip. Just before I departed, I saw the first tweets that suggested that something was wrong in Orlando. By the time I landed 12 hours later, social media was on its fourth iteration of the super fun “How Dare You Politicize a Tragedy!” game.

Julian Assange’s strange seven-year residence in Ecuador’s London embassy has ended, and Assange, thanks to the American president he helped elect, is now in British custody facing a US extradition request. The question now is what the freshly unsealed Trump Justice Department indictment against him means, and doesn’t mean—for Assange, for the British courts, which must decide whether to hand

Former White House counsel Donald McGahn, a key figure with firsthand knowledge of President Donald Trump's alleged efforts to short-circuit the Mueller investigation, must testify before Congress, a federal judge ruled Monday.

The ruling, which the Justice Department said it will appeal, affirms Congress' role as a check on executive power. If upheld, it could open the door for