After two months of pressure and violent threats, Republican state senators voted against Trump's effort to eliminate two House seats held by Democrats.

The Trump administration’s decision to pay ICE agents during the shutdown but not others could come back to bite them.

One person described Michael Glasheen's testimony as a "total amateur hour in U.S. law enforcement."

The California governor showed the White House that he can use SZA's "it's cuffing season" lyric, too.

“What does that mean?” asked a baffled Rep. Bennie Thompson.

Republicans’ mid-decade gerrymander cannot be used in the midterm elections unless the secretary of state deems the 305,000 signatures a group gathered to be insufficient.

The Democratic strategist took special glee in seeing the president in a precarious place.

Democrats, meanwhile, blocked a competing GOP bill on Thursday that would have bolstered health savings accounts instead.

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The painting that introduced the movie “Star Wars” to the world nearly 50 years ago sold at auction for $3.875 million on Wednesday.