The First Continental Congress formed in response to the British Parliament's passage of the Intolerable Acts (called the Coercive Acts in England), which aimed to punish Massachusetts for the ...

Congress appears unlikely to pass any of the laws it has been promising to safeguard this year’s election from the threat of artificial intelligence. With experts warning about threats to ...

End Chinese Dominance of Electric Vehicles in America Act of 2024 Ideology data is based on DW-NOMINATE statistics developed by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal. More information can be found at ...

The introduction of the bill comes as Congress has failed to regulate the fast-evolving technology and experts warn that it threatens to overwhelm voters with misinformation. Those experts have ...

At least eight members of Congress may have broken a law regarding the timely reporting of trades in stocks and other securities, according to disclosures made in August 2024 that appear not have ...

Members of the U.S. congress whose ancestors enslaved people have had a higher median net worth than those whose ancestors did not, according to a new analysis published on Wednesday in PLOS ONE.

Congress is staring down a deadline this month to prevent a government shutdown, as members on both sides of the aisle have made clear a stopgap of some kind will be needed to keep the lights on ...

The introduction of the bill comes as Congress has failed to regulate the fast-evolving technology and experts warn that it threatens to overwhelm voters with misinformation. Those experts have ...

WASHINGTON — After a six-week summer recess, lawmakers return to the Capitol on Monday facing a changed political landscape but a vexing, very familiar problem: figuring out how to avert a shutdown.

Fifty-three percent of voting-age members of Generation Z – which the survey defines as those younger than 28 – said they trusted Congress very little, with 51% saying the same about the ...

WASHINGTON—Congress accidentally left a hole in the 2017 tax law by writing mismatched effective dates for new tax rules—and then failed to fix the problem. That is now allowing big companies ...

Review and Outlook: A judge rules that illegal White House pressure led to social-media censorship which almost exclusively targeted conservative speech, especially on Covid-19. Images: AFP/Getty ...