Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says in daily floor remarks hours before President elect Donald Trump was to meet with Senate Republicans at the Capitol that Trump's attention-grabbing proposals like renaming the Gulf of Mexico are distractions from substantive issues,

U.S. Senate votes to proceed on a bill that would impose new mandatory immigration detention requirements for immigrants charged with property crimes.

The U.S. House passed its first bill of the 119th Congress Tuesday, a measure that increases migrant detention and is named after a Georgia nursing student whose murder President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly tied to the Biden administration’s immigration policies.

Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek Saab said on Monday that 146 more people arrested after a July election are to be freed, taking the total number of prisoners released to 1,515 just days before President Nicolas Maduro is set to begin his third term.

A 100-year-old Holocaust survivor revealed how her family hid from the Nazis inside a convent — as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer honored the “living legend superwoman” on Long Island ...

The bill is named in honor of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student murdered on the University of Georgia campus last year.

HOUSTON – Senator Ted Cruz is pushing for Congress to support a bill called the Justice for Jocelyn Act. TIMELINE: Significant events surrounding death 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray | Sen. Ted Cruz details what the ‘Justice for Jocelyn Act’ will look like

Seven of the 11 Democratic senators up for re-election in 2026 voted to advance the bill, including Jon Ossoff of Georgia, Gary Peters of Michigan, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Mark Warner of Virginia, John Hickenlooper of Colorado and Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed its first bill of the 119th Congress Tuesday, a measure that increases migrant detention and is named after a Georgia nursing student whose murder President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly tied to the Biden administration’s immigration policies.

Among President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks, secretary of state nominee Marco Rubio may face the easiest confirmation process.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Venezuela on Saturday condemned new sanctions that the U.S., Britain, and the European Union imposed the previous day, when the country swore in President Nicolas Maduro ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., instructed his caucus not to hold back when it comes to confirmation hearings beginning this week for some of President-elect Trump's nominees for top ...