Democrats are responding to the push with recent statistics that show violent crime falling from a pandemic-era spike and touting their investments in anti-violence initiatives. But they have struggled to change voters’ perceptions that they’re weak on crime — a belief that helped Trump’s 2024 victory.

President Donald Trump's tightening grip over the Justice Department to target his political opponents and lawmakers' increasing calls for the release of more files from federal investigations into deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are likely to take center stage at a contentious Senate hearing Tuesday for Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Congress was no step closer to ending the government shutdown after the Senate rejected, for the fifth time, plans to reopen the government.

President Trump reiterated the layoff threat Monday but the hardball tactic isn't likely to break the shutdown impasse.

Utah’s Republican-led Legislature approved a revised congressional map Monday that could give Democrats an improved chance at flipping a seat as the party fights to topple the GOP’s slim majority in the US House.

President Trump says one part of the answer to homelessness is civil commitment and forced medical care. Some Democrats agree.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers have provided few public signs of meaningful negotiations to break an impasse on reopening the federal government.

Top Virginia Democrats have sharply criticized attorney general nominee Jay Jones for suggesting that a colleague be shot in newly revealed text messages but are stopping short of calling on him to leave the race.