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 ...

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

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 ...

There is room for about only 800 seats inside the Capitol Rotunda, so when Donald J. Trump’s inauguration was hastily moved ...

Two weeks later, Trump left office disgraced and impeached. For a while, he seemed likelier to be imprisoned than restored to ...

Vivek Ramaswamy and incoming White House chief of staff Susie Wiles are chatting and smiling on the stage as the Rotunda ...

President Donald Trump has pardoned, commuted the prison sentences or vowed to dismiss the cases of all of the 1,500-plus ...