From Dec. 1, 2020 to Dec. 22, 2021, members of Congress bought and sold $296 million in stocks, according to a report from UnusualWhales. A total of more than 3,500 transactions from 105 members of ...

Chief Justice John Roberts began his 2021 year-end report, as he so often does, with an anecdote from history to set the stage. But by the end of the first page, the message of Roberts’ report, which ...

Millions of Americans are still watching mailboxes and bank accounts for direct payments from the latest COVID-19 relief legislation Congress passed earlier this year. President Joe Biden recently ...

Rep. Marilyn Strickland, D-Wash., wears a traditional Korean hanbok, during her swearing-in ceremony Sunday in Washington, D.C. One hundred and four years ago, Jeannette Rankin broke the Congressional ...

On November 12, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Steve Bannon, who served as White House chief strategist and senior counselor to the president at the start of U.S. President ...

Editor’s Note (May 2, 2022, 11:08 a.m. ET): NBC News has determined that a section about reinstating climate regulations in an earlier version of this article was not properly attributed to its ...

Image courtesy of Kevin McCoy / Wikimedia Commons. In Sept. 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order saying that all federal employees would have to be vaccinated by Nov. 22, 2021.

Although Catholics make up about 20 percent of the U.S. population, they represent 30 percent of the 117th Congress, according to the Pew Research Center. Protestants still dominate with 55 percent of ...

In the 2020 election, health care was a top issue for voters across the ideological spectrum. The incoming Congress will need to put forward policy solutions to address the fallout from the COVID-19 ...

WASHINGTON — Congress will confront a packed agenda when it returns from Thanksgiving recess, from facing hard deadlines to keep the federal government running to passing President Joe Biden's $1.7 ...

There will be more women of color sworn in to the 117th U.S. Congress than ever before, with at least 51 women of color elected. Ballots are still being tallied in two close races, so the number could ...