President Donald Trump’s pledge to help make Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream a reality is viewed with skepticism by many prominent Black and Hispanic civil rights leaders.

Mike Johnson was reelected as House speaker on a single vote.

Tune into a Donald Trump or Kamala Harris rally and you'll hear a lot of grim talk.

Donald Trump's staffers are on edge.

Alaska voters are set to shrink the pool of contenders for its highly sought-after U.S. House seat from a dozen candidates to just four.

Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate, is defending a false claim the former president made about Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity.

Two politicians known to be on Donald Trump's vice presidential list are from Florida, where the former president also now lives.

Donald Trump has narrowed his vice presidential shortlist to a handful of contenders as he prepares to announce his pick in the days before, or perhaps at, next month’s Republican National Convention.

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has begun requesting information from his potential vice presidential candidates, sending vetting paperwork to a list of top contenders in recent weeks.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is assailing the hush money trial case against Donald Trump as a "sham," the highest-ranking Republican to show up at court and attack the U.S. justice system.

Republicans have chosen Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana as their latest nominee for House speaker.

Civil rights activists cheered when Ron DeSantis pardoned four Black men wrongfully convicted of rape as one of his first actions as Florida’s new governor.

Moments after Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he hoarded classified documents and then conspired to obstruct an investigation about it, the Republicans in Congress had his back.

Ron DeSantis has yet to enter the 2024 presidential race, but former President Donald Trump is aiming to drum up support in the Florida governor’s backyard.

The extended drama over picking the next House speaker has put the normally understated position of House clerk in the spotlight.

As Republicans struggled for a second day to elect a House speaker, Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida emerged as the choice of conservative holdouts who are refusing to support Kevin McCarthy’s bid.

The Republican Party’s capture of the House majority is upending the agenda in Washington, empowering GOP lawmakers to pursue conservative goals and vigorously challenge the policies of President Joe Biden and his administration.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has cleared the first major step toward becoming House speaker.

Air Force veteran Jennifer-Ruth Green is eyeing an upset in an Indiana U.S. House district that has been Democratically controlled for nearly a century.

Former President Donald Trump recently told a mostly white crowd at a rally in Texas that his legal troubles are the fault of Black prosecutors he called racists.