#Congress

The United States Capitol in Washington at sunrise, in a photograph released by the House of Representatives in January 2023.

Congress returns for a five-week lame duck with a December 11 funding cliff and a leadership fight on Tuesday

The chamber of the United States House of Representatives, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., in 2017. Democrats take over the chamber's committees in January.

Democrats set a November 11 deadline for Homeland Security records as they prepare subpoenas over killings by immigration agents

The Executive Tower at the Arizona State Capitol complex in Phoenix, in December 2023. Arizona's secretary of state said his office was evacuated on October 15, 2026, after a letter with white powder arrived.

Election security

More than 100 suspicious letters were mailed to election offices and members of Congress, 18 days before the midterms

The east front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., photographed in 2013.

The Senate defeats an Iran war powers resolution by a single vote, 49-50

Senator Bernie Sanders speaks at a town meeting at the Phoenix Convention Center in Arizona in 2015.

Artificial intelligence

Sanders and Casar file a bill to outlaw superintelligent AI and pause advanced development

Rep. Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, in his 2022 official House portrait.

House leaves early for the midterms, pushing Massie's Hegseth impeachment vote to November