The vote was almost entirely along party lines.

It’s a cold world.

House Democrats were poised on Wednesday to push through a sweeping expansion of federal voting rights over solid Republican opposition, opening a new front in a raging national debate about elections aimed at countering G.O.P. attempts to clamp down...

The inspector general's request for a criminal investigation late last year was rebuffed.

The US House of Representatives passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, the most ambitious police reform effort in decades, for the second time on Wednesday. The sweeping legislation would ban chokeholds and “qualified immunity” for law enforcement...

Law enforcement warnings that a militia group may be plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol on Thursday raised tensions again in Washington and helped prompt the House to cancel plans to meet for votes.