USA TODAY reporters covered the historic events. They were inside the Capitol, walking the streets, at the White House and ...

Washington state’s U.S. senators have cosponsored legislation that would grant statehood to the District of Columbia.

During their first news conference since Trump took office, House Republican leaders were effusive about the new ...

Two appointed senators, with the significant failure rate of those appointees, might be the helping hand that Senate ...

Democrats in the Minnesota House who have boycotted daily sessions are using tactics that lawmakers elsewhere have tried ...

Loeffler is a top donor to Trump who served for a time as a U.S. senator from Georgia. She was appointed to the seat by Gov.

Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton announced a new policy requiring visitors to reserve tickets to see the state House in action.

One of Trump’s first executive orders on Monday was a broad directive for federal employees to return to the office. That was ...

Shirley Hankins, who represented the Tri-Cities in the Washington state Legislature for 24 years as a moderate Republican ...

Donald J. Trump, a billionaire businessman whose meteoric rise in politics has repeatedly defied odds and reshaped the ...

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina said Wednesday that she is “seriously considering” a gubernatorial run in 2026 ...

Musk’s first day in Trump’s Washington was not without controversy after he made a gesture observers said resembled a Nazi ...