Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated photo provided by the US Justice Department on December 19, 2025 shows Jeffrey Epstein (L), who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking, and his ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator, is scheduled for a closed-door questioning by the US Congress. However, she is likely to invoke a constitutional privilege to avoid answering questions. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison ...

WASHINGTON -- Congress has approved $200 million in security assistance for the Baltic states as Russian activity along NATO’s eastern flank intensifies. The funding, approved this week as part of the Fiscal Year 2026 Defense Appropriations Act secures ...

Typically, members flee Congress when it looks as if their party will lose seats and, potentially, control of a chamber. The possibility of being relegated to the minority tends to make the job — and all its travel and stress — far less appealing.

February 25, 1862. Congress passed the Legal Tender Act, creating the greenback. This was the United States first paper currency backed by the US government and legally required to be accepted as payment.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Key members of Congress are demanding a swift vote on a war powers resolution that would restrain President Donald Trump’s military attack on Iran unless the administration wins their approval for what they warn is a potentially illegal campaign that risks pulling the United States into a deeper Middle East conflict.

President Trump will speak to a legislative body that has ceded much of its power to him but has recently pushed back gently, and where partisan divides are deeper than ever ahead of the midterm elections.

Clinton follows his wife, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who testified on Thursday calling for Donald Trump to appear before the panel