Politics & Policy

In less than a month, Juan Guaidó has risen from obscure, junior lawmaker to self-proclaimed interim president of Venezuela.

"You can only be so happy because you just have to know that it could happen again."

Councilwoman Cindy Bass proposes distributing the funds as loans to bridge the gap until the federal workers are receiving paychecks again.

In Venezuela, where media is controlled by the government, figuring out what is truth, rumor or propaganda has always been difficult.

Like some geo-political case of measles, Pennsylvania is pockmarked this year with special elections, all caused by mid-term departures of sitting elected officials.

Hundreds of wealthy donors gathered Charles Koch are meeting this weekend after his political network said it won't support Trump's 2020 re-election campaign.

The United States urged all nations Saturday to support Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido.

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is finally over. And there are no two ways about it — Trump caved.

The longest government shutdown in history ended after President Trump signed a bipartisan three-week stopgap funding measure late Friday.

If the U.S. decisively took sides in Venezuela's escalating political crisis this week, Russia wasn't sitting idly by.

New Jersey lawmakers are investigating claims by Katie Brennan that she was raped by Alvarez and that her warnings to Gov. Phil Murphy’s top officials were ignored.

To be clear, neither man is facing any criminal charges at this point.

The disruption from the partial shutdown and the recent absence of a large contingent of recalled IRS employees mean the possibility of delayed tax refunds.

The ACLU argues in a lawsuit that the failure to reassess properties for at least three decades by all 3 Delaware counties hurts poor kids’ chances at an adequate education.

Three people familiar with the negotiations on Capitol Hill said the deal would restore money for the shuttered agencies for three weeks, while negotiations continue.