U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer says a semiconductor research facility in upstate New York will be getting $825 million in funding as one of three national technology centers.

Jonquel Jones, Breanna Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu and their New York teammates were showered with confetti as the Liberty celebrated winning the WNBA title in the Canyon of Heroes in downtown Manhattan.

Congress has avoided a government shutdown just weeks before the Nov. 5 election.

The House has rejected Speaker Mike Johnson's bill to temporarily fund the government.

House Speaker Mike Johnson will move ahead with a temporary spending bill that would prevent a partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, despite the headwinds that prompted him to pull the bill from consideration last week.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is vowing to press ahead with requiring proof of citizenship for new voters as part of a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has teed up a vote this week on a bill that would keep the federal government funded for six more months.

House Republicans have unveiled legislation to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of the month.

Police say five people were shot at New York City’s West Indian American Day Parade.

Leaders of a Democratic protest-vote movement pushing back on the handling of the Israel-Hamas war say their request to have a Palestinian American speak at the Democratic National Convention has been rejected.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will have a book out next winter that draws in part upon his own life and religion for what he calls a “warning” about antisemitism.

The Senate’s top Democrat says he'll work to block a plan that would significantly cut the proposed budget of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nancy Pelosi’s influence can be seen all across the Democratic Party shakeup.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is predicting that Democrats will keep control of the Senate in the November election.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has introduced legislation reaffirming presidents don't have immunity for criminal actions, an attempt to reverse the Supreme Court’s landmark decision last month.

The Senate will consider legislation this week that aims to protect children from dangerous online content, moving forward with what could become the first sweeping new regulation of the tech industry in decades.

Insiders who were close to Joe Biden's struggles are describing a president who was dogged in his determination to keep his candidacy alive — but ultimately not in denial about the odds.

Democratic lawmakers are hailing President Joe Biden’s historic decision not to seek reelection as putting his country and his party before himself.

President Joe Biden now is weighing whether to bow to the mounting pressure to exit the presidential race.

Democrats at the highest levels are making a critical push for President Joe Biden to reconsider his election bid.

Sen. Bob Menendez has shown no sign he will voluntarily resign from the Senate following his conviction on bribery charges.

The uproar over President Joe Biden's ability to win reelection is leaving Democrats at a standstill.

White House chief of staff Jeff Zients has urged people during an all-staff meeting to tune out the “noise” and focus on the task of governing as senior aides scramble to contain the political fallout from President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance.

One of President Joe Biden’s signature laws aimed to invigorate renewable energy manufacturing in the U.S. It will also help a solar panel company reap billions of dollars.

The last time Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the U.S. Congress, nearly 60 Democrats skipped his speech nine years ago.

Senate Republicans have blocked bipartisan legislation that would have outlawed bump stocks after the Supreme Court struck down a ban on the rapid-fire gun accessory.

President Joe Biden’s grip on a key federal energy commission will last beyond his first term, giving a boost to the Democrat’s push for renewable energy regardless of the election results in November.

Senate Republicans have blocked legislation that would make it a right nationwide for women to access in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to address a joint meeting of Congress on July 24.

Senate Republicans have blocked legislation designed to protect women’s access to contraception.

Senate Democrats are making a renewed push to show their support for ensuring nationwide access to in vitro fertilization.

Congressional leaders have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver an address a the U.S. Capitol.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and 22 other Democratic senators are calling on the Justice Department to prevent and prosecute alleged collusion and price-fixing in the oil industry.

Senate Republicans are blocking for a second time a bill to clamp down the number of migrants allowed to claim asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Republican state lawmakers across the U.S. have been knocking down efforts by Democrats to ensure access to various forms of birth control.

The Senate has confirmed the 200th federal judge of President Joe Biden’s tenure.

House Republicans are delivering a rebuke to President Joe Biden for putting a pause on a shipment of bombs to Israel that could be used in an assault on Rafah.

A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and put safeguards around it.

The Senate has passed a $105 billion bill designed to improve air safety and customer service for air travelers, a day before the law governing the Federal Aviation Administration expires.

President Joe Biden has signed legislation reauthorizing a key U.S. surveillance law after divisions over whether the FBI should be restricted from using the program to search for Americans’ data nearly forced the statute to lapse.

The Senate has advanced legislation that would reauthorize a key U.S. surveillance tool as lawmakers and the Biden administration rushed to tamp down fresh concerns about the program violating Americans’ civil liberties.

The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide $6.1 billion in government support for Micron Technology to produce advanced memory computer chips in New York and Idaho.

The Senate has dismissed all impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, ending the House Republican push to remove the Cabinet secretary from office over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border and ending his trial before arguments even began.

House impeachment managers have walked two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas across the Capitol to the Senate, forcing senators to convene a trial.

House Republicans will delay bringing their case against Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate until next week, two months after impeaching the Homeland Security secretary.

House Speaker Mike Johnson will send articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate shortly after Congress returns to Washington next month.

The Biden administration greenlit the seventh large offshore wind project in the United States Tuesday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson says he plans to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress, a show of support from Republicans amid growing Democratic criticism of Netanyahu’s leadership.

Many Jewish faith leaders and commentators are decrying what they say are inflammatory remarks by Donald Trump.

Congressional leaders are working to put a positive light on a $1.2 trillion spending package that lawmakers look to approve before funding expires at midnight Friday for several key government agencies.

Former President Donald Trump on Monday charged that Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and hate “their religion,” igniting a firestorm of criticism from the White House and Jewish leaders.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to send a team of Israeli officials to Washington to discuss with Biden administration officials a prospective Rafah operation, according to White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sharply protesting against growing criticism from top ally the United States over his leadership amid the war with Hamas.

Republicans and Israeli officials were quick to express outrage after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer lashed out at Prime Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza and called for Israel to hold new elections.

President Joe Biden is expressing support for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer after the senator called for new elections in Israel.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling on Israel to hold new elections.

Senators from both major political parties are urging congressional leaders to ensure that more visas are made available to Afghans who worked alongside U.S. troops in America’s longest war.

A TikTok spokesman is criticizing Congress for being too secretive as it advances a proposal that could lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app.

The House has passed a bill that would ban TikTok in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn’t sell.

President Joe Biden has signed into law a package of spending bills passed by the Senate in time to avoid a shutdown of many key federal agencies.

Congressional leaders have invited the prime minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, to address a joint meeting of Congress on April 11.

Congressional leaders have come out with a package of six bills setting full-year spending levels for some federal agencies.

Congressional leaders are warning that shortages of ammunition and supplies are resulting in Ukraine losing ground in the war with Russia.

Congressional leaders have announced a tentative agreement to prevent a government shutdown, for now.

Congressional leaders emerged from an “intense” Oval Office meeting with President Joe Biden speaking optimistically about the prospects for avoiding a partial government shutdown beginning this weekend.

For the third time in five years, senators will be sworn in as jurors for an impeachment trial.

President Joe Biden will convene the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the emergency aid package for Ukraine and Israel, as well as avoiding a government shutdown next month.

On a surprise visit to Ukraine to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer directly challenged House Speaker Mike Johnson to take up a $95 billion national security package that includes aid for the besieged country.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats plan to “constantly over the next year” remind voters that it was Donald Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee, who torpedoed a bipartisan bill on border enforcement.

President Joe Biden is calling urgently for House Republicans to get behind a supplemental spending bill that would send $60 billion to Ukraine for its fight against Russia.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is sharply criticizing a $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other countries, casting serious doubts about the future of the package.

As a growing number of Republicans oppose U.S. aid to Ukraine, the Senate’s leaders are arguing in strong terms that the money is crucial to pushing back against Russian President Vladimir Putin and maintaining America’s global standing.

The U.S. Senate is slogging past far-right Republican opposition to helping Ukraine fight Russia.

The Senate is beginning work on a package of wartime funding for Ukraine and other U.S. allies.

Wartime aid for Ukraine has been left hanging in the Senate after Republicans blocked a bipartisan border package that had been tied to the funding, then struggled to coalesce around a plan to salvage the aid for Kyiv.

A Senate deal on border enforcement measures and Ukraine aid has suffered swift and total collapse.

Senate Republicans are resisting the advance of a bipartisan proposal intended to clamp down on illegal border crossings.

Senators have released a highly anticipated bill that pairs border enforcement policy with wartime aid for Ukraine and Israel.

Senate leaders are attempting to push forward a deal to pair new policies at the southern border with wartime aid for Ukraine and other American allies, but they will have to overcome heavy skepticism from Republicans.

Senate negotiators are struggling to finalize a bipartisan deal that would pair policy changes at the U.S. southern border with wartime aid for Kyiv as they run into strong resistance from House Republicans and Donald Trump.

Senate negotiators are laboring to win support for a deal on border policy as they enter what could be a pivotal stretch for a painstakingly negotiated compromise that could open the door for Republican support to replenish U.S. wartime aid for Ukraine.

Congress has sent President Joe Biden a short-term spending bill that would avert a looming partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies into March.

President Joe Biden has invited the top four congressional leaders and other lawmakers to the White House on Wednesday as members have struggled to reach agreement on aid for the Ukraine war.

Congressional leaders are preparing a stopgap bill to keep the federal government running into March and avoid a partial shutdown next week.

With support for Ukraine slipping in Congress, the United States is once again struggling to assert its role in the world.

This Congress started with showy bluster, a bitter 15-round, multi-day spectacle to elect a House speaker who vowed to “never quit,” and then did just that.

Amid grueling negotiations between senators and the White House, the contours of a bipartisan border security and immigration deal are beginning to take shape.

The Senate has unanimously confirmed 11 top-ranking military officers.

President Joe Biden’s push to have Congress replenish wartime aid for Ukraine as part of a deal on border and immigration policy changes will almost certainly drag into next year.

Prominent Democratic Latinos in Congress quietly raised concerns at first about negotiations between the Biden administration and a group of senators over border security and asylum restrictions.

Top Biden administration officials are trying to reach a last-minute deal for wartime aid for Ukraine by agreeing to Senate Republican demands to bolster U.S.-Mexico border policies to cut crossings.

A deal to provide further U.S. assistance to Ukraine by year-end appears to be increasingly out of reach for President Joe Biden.

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Chevron’s acquisition of Hess oil company, the second inquiry the independent agency has opened this week of a major oil industry merger.

Washington’s center of gravity on immigration has shifted demonstrably to the right.

Security filings show the Federal Trade Commission is investigating ExxonMobil’s $60 billion deal to acquire a Texas oil company, potentially one the largest energy industry mergers in two decades.

Vice President Kamala Harris has set the record for the most Senate tiebreaker votes, topping a nearly 200-year-old mark by casting her 32nd to help confirm a new federal judge in Washington, D.

Olympic gold medalist swimmer Klete Keller has been sentenced to six months of home detention for joining the mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is warning that antisemitism in the United States has reached levels unseen in generations and called on his fellow Democrats to clearly condemn it.

Congress has ended the threat of a government shutdown until after the holidays.

Democratic governors across the country are sending a joint letter to leaders in Congress calling for additional funds for security at places of worship.