Clearing the House Rules Committee marks a major win for Trump, who had grown increasingly impatient with Republican holdouts.

Live updates and the latest news as Trump hosts South Africa's president and the House Rules Committee meets on the Republicans' budget bill.

In the hyper-ensitive see-saw that is Speaker Mike Johnson’s GOP conference, pleasing one vital faction often means antagonizing another.

A Louisiana bill that would have carved out a path for incarcerated people convicted by now-banned split juries the opportunity to ask for a new trial was rejected by Republican state senators on Wednesday,

The money would be invested on children’s behalf in the financial markets for them to use once they had grown up.

The bill won bipartisan support despite efforts from multiple Democrats that would have also required students to learn about fascism and Nazism.

Texas lawmakers have advanced a bill to clarify medical exceptions under one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S. The approval in the Texas House on Wednesday puts the GOP-backed proposal on the brink of reaching Republican Gov.

SB218 would have set the cases of defendants convicted by nonunanimous juries back to pretrial status and allowed district attorneys to decide whether to retry or dismiss the case