House Speaker Mike Johnson’s talk about “drastically” reducing the federal government is popular with voters, although ...

Republican Mike Johnson won the barest of victories on Friday, Jan. 3, when 218 U.S. House representatives voted to re-up his ...

The House passed the Laken Riley Act on Tuesday, which could have unauthorized immigrants charged with nonviolent crimes ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson often says he sees himself as the quarterback and President-elect Donald Trump as the coach ...

Members of Congress, the Supreme Court and other dignitaries will gather at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday for a lying-in-state ...

Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation’s capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting Tuesday.

Social media users responded with a stark reminder after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday positively talked up ...

Good morning, Chicago. Six shooting deaths on the South and West sides, a fatal stabbing in Little Village and a vehicular homicide in Chicago Lawn. About a week into the new year, violence in Chicago ...

Sports betting proposals have languished for years in the state Legislature amid debates over morality and spending.

It will be up to Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough to determine whether the provisions in their reconciliation bills can ...

The bill, named for a nursing school student who was murdered by a man in the country illegally, passed the House last year.

Democrats were able to hand the presidency back to Donald Trump in a civil manner. We need more of that. Remember what ...