In the House, Republicans are ignoring Democratic priorities in government funding bills, moving forward with deep spending ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has slow-walked Trump’s nominees, forcing the requirement of a cloture vote for ...

U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) has joined a bipartisan group of colleagues to reintroduce the “Cooper Davis and Devin Norring Act,” a crucial piece of legislation aimed at holding social media ...

Dan Innis, a Republican state senator from Bradford, confirmed his decision to run for New Hampshire's open U.S. Senate seat ...

Letter writers sound off on ICE debate in Hampton, cuts to truth tellers at NPR and PBS, downtown Portsmouth and more.

South Africa and Sudan are in the hot seat this week as the US Congress takes up a flurry of bills ahead of the summer recess ...

A dark cloud looms on the horizon as Congress prepares for its summer break: There’s a very real chance lawmakers could be inching toward a government shutdown at the beginning of October. This week ...

Prime Minster Mark Carney will meet with a bipartisan delegation of United States senators on Monday as pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war mounts.

Beijing’s “parasitic” efforts to lead the advanced batteries sector are potentially impairing U.S. national security.

The State Department says its destruction of 500 metric tons of emergency food aid that was stored in a warehouse in the Middle East was required because it had expired ...