GOP Senator: 'It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care'

An enraged President Donald Trump and a prominent Republican senator who fears the country could be edging toward "chaos" engaged in an intense and vitriolic back-and-forth bashing on social media Sunday, a remarkable airing of their party's profound rifts.

Congresswoman, chief call for stricter gun laws

Should anyone be able to buy a gun without a background check? Houston Police Department Chief Art Acevedo is joining Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee in calling for universal background checks.

Trump lists demands on immigration in exchange for DACA

President Donald Trump has told congressional leaders that his hard-line immigration priorities must be enacted in exchange for extending protection from deportation to hundreds of thousands of young immigrants, many of whom were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

EPA chief says Trump administration to roll back Obama climate plan

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that he will sign a new rule overriding the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era effort to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants.

President Trump rolls back Obama Care contraceptive mandate

President Donald Trump is allowing more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women by claiming religious or moral objections, issuing new rules Friday that take another step in rolling back the Obama health care law.

Brianne Nadeau discusses being first female DC council member to give birth while serving in office

Last month, Brianne Nadeau became the first-ever female D.C. council member to give birth while in office. On Thursday, her 3-week-old daughter Zoe made her debut at the Wilson Building as she joined her mother for a health committee hearing.

Bill proposed to decriminalize sex work in DC

A D.C. lawmaker has proposed a bill aimed at decriminalizing sex work in the nation’s capital.

National Rifle Association calls for federal review of bump stocks

The National Rifle Association announced its support Thursday for regulating 'bump stocks,' devices that can effectively convert semi-automatic rifles into fully automated weapons and that were apparently used in the Las Vegas massacre to lethal effect.

GOP Rep. Murphy resigning after reports of affair

GOP Rep. Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania, caught up in tawdry revelations of an extramarital affair, is resigning from Congress.

DC officials won't appeal ruling against strict gun law

District of Columbia officials said Thursday they won't appeal a court ruling striking down a portion of the city's gun laws, a decision that means it will soon be easier for gun owners to get concealed carry permits in the nation's capital.

Advocacy groups file lawsuit over DACA in Maryland

Today is a key deadline for immigrants who were brought into the U.S. as children to renew their applications for a program that provides them with protection from deportation.

President Trump says Puerto Rico put budget 'out of whack' but lives were saved

Confronting Puerto Rico's devastation nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria, President Donald Trump highlighted the island's relatively low death toll compared with 'a real catastrophe like Katrina' as he opened a tour of the island Tuesday by focusing on the best of the reviews he and his administration are getting for the federal response.

Justice Kennedy is key to Supreme Court outcome on partisan maps

In a case that could reshape American politics, the Supreme Court appeared split Tuesday on whether Wisconsin Republicans gave themselves an unfair advantage when they drew political maps to last a decade.

US gives Cuba 1 week to withdraw 15 diplomats

The United States expelled 15 of Cuba's diplomats Tuesday to protest its failure to protect Americans from unexplained attacks in Havana, plunging diplomatic ties between the countries to levels unseen in years.

Ryan says no plan to act soon on easing gun regs

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on Congress and the Las Vegas shooting (all times local): 10:15 a.m. House Speaker Paul Ryan says there's no plan for the House to act soon on a National Rifle Association-backed bill to ease regulations on gun silencers.

Trump sticks to somber script, refuses to join guns debate

President Donald Trump stuck to a somber script Monday after at least 58 people were shot dead in Las Vegas, condemning the largest mass shooting in modern U.S. history as an "act of pure evil" and declaring the nation would unite behind the survivors. He refused to get into a new debate over gun control.