Online prediction markets' skyrocketing popularity has led to scrutiny of potential insider trading, early moves from regulators and industry to establish guardrails, and now debates on Capitol Hill.

A new power center built around the fight over artificial intelligence is taking shape in Washington.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced a tentative deal to impose a tax on second homes in New York City as part of a $268 billion budget that will also weaken the state's climate law.

The Virginia Supreme Court has blocked state officials from using a new congressional map approved by voters this year that was poised to help Democrats gain additional seats in the US House.

Republicans' proposed funding for President Donald Trump's ballroom project is vulnerable to procedural challenges from Democrats if they leverage opaque Senate rules to attack the GOP's next multi-billion-dollar budget bill.

Congress members are urging the federal behavioral health agency to reverse course and allow funding to be used for harm-reduction tools, such as drug-testing strips to detect fentanyl.

The White House is staying away from primary races in Texas and Georgia despite President Donald Trump's considerable show of force with his endorsements in Indian.

Democrats in Tennessee protested in the legislature Thursday as Republicans approved a new map designed to help them win all nine of the state's US House seats.

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced a tentative deal on a $268 billion state budget, with legislative leaders agreeing to impose a tax on second homes in New York City and weaken the state climate law.

Online prediction markets' skyrocketing popularity has led to scrutiny of potential insider trading, early moves from regulators and industry to establish guardrails, and now debates on Capitol Hill.

Key moderate Republicans fighting for their political lives in November are cooling on the prospect of another party-line fiscal package, creating fresh headaches for leaders on Capitol Hill.

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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) highlighted the challenges in treating mental health and substance use as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle the lead behavioral health agency and eliminate several lines of funding.

Republicans in Tennessee proposed a new congressional map Wednesday that would likely help the party win all nine of the state's US House seats, eliminating the lone Democratic-leaning district in Memphis.

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A federal agency wants to learn how nuclear reactors could help the US expand its commercial presence on the high seas.

Donald Trump wiped out multiple Indiana Republican lawmakers who defied his order to redraw the state's congressional map, underscoring the president's clout and his bruising efforts to extract revenge against dissidents in his own party.

House GOP proponents of bipartisan housing legislation are pressing to amend a Senate-passed bill with the aim of advancing it on the floor as soon as next week when lawmakers return to Washington.

Labor groups tied to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the AFL-CIO have leveraged concerns over job losses, road safety, and local control to block proposals this year in statehouses nationwide that would benefit autonomous vehicle developers.

Republican state lawmakers are rushing to eliminate Democratic districts from their voting maps after the Supreme Court restricted use of the Voting Rights Act to create majority-minority districts.

K Street lobbyists are teeing up a flurry of advocacy campaigns on crypto, housing, AI, and other matters to await lawmakers' return to Capitol Hill next week.

State tax frameworks, immigration, firearms, and emerging commercial areas — such as prediction markets and cannabis — were common themes among the second group of states to wrap up their legislative sessions this year.

Republicans will come back from recess next week with just a handful of legislative days to surmount multiple procedural hurdles to fund immigration and border enforcement by President Donald Trump's June 1 deadline.

Voters in Ohio handily backed former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's bid to be the Republican nominee for governor, while Democrat Sherrod Brown will get another shot at returning to the Senate after being defeated in 2024.

Democratic leaders in Washington are leaning on New York to solidify plans to draw new congressional maps in 2028 in response to a spree of mid-decade redistricting Republicans instigated in Texas and Louisiana.

The Homeland Security and Justice departments would receive $71.7 billion in multiyear funding under draft legislation released by Senate Republicans on May 4.

Senate Republicans' new bill funding security elements of President Donald Trump's ballroom project is drawing swift criticism from Democrats.

With six months to go, lobbyists are looking for clues to position clients through the rest of this year's potentially turbulent election rhetoric and into the next Congress when power could shift.

The Make America Healthy Again movement is looking to push forward and refocus after a spate of policy and personnel defeats in Washington.

Several Indiana state primaries will give new insight as to whether incumbents who defy party leaders can survive at the ballot box.

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The chairs of key Senate committees unveiled legislation Monday that would fund President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agenda for the rest of this term, a critical step in Republicans' push to address the lapse in annual funding for those agencies.

US Southern Command that's been leading the strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean is seeking to increase its use of Palantir Technology Inc.'s Maven Smart System, budget documents sent to Congress show.

The campaign arm of House Democrats has expanded its roster of candidates it says are well-positioned to win mostly Republican districts in November.

Key senators are pressing Secretary Marco Rubio to tap congressionally-approved funds to fulfill the US pledge to support global vaccination campaigns.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is starting to echo President Donald Trump's aggressive anti-immigration rhetoric in response to criticism of his vaccine policy.

California lawmakers aim to upend decades of legal precedent through a proposed expansion of the state's antitrust laws, threatening longstanding interpretations of predatory pricing and exclusive dealing, among other issues.

Only weeks into his temporary tenure, Republican Sen. Alan Armstrong is putting all his weight behind making it easier to build domestic energy projects.

A shrinking number of seats will determine control of the US House after both Republicans and Democrats spent much of the past year redrawing congressional maps to erase swing districts.

Florida's special session, which wrapped up prematurely on Wednesday, handed Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis a redistricting victory and signaled where power sits in the state heading into midterm elections that will determine who controls Congress.

New York Democrats are pressing forward with plans to amend the state's redistricting process after Wednesday's Supreme Court decision narrowing the landmark Voting Rights Act.

Roger Stone, a longtime lobbyist and ally of President Donald Trump, will work to rebuild relations between the US and Myanmar, his new client, Justice Department documents show.

Senators are now prohibited from trading on prediction markets after a resolution was agreed to Thursday by unanimous consent.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) have settled into a routine to navigate difficult politics: Johnson tells his members yes and Thune tells the House no.