The nation’s farewell to former President Jimmy Carter began Saturday in his home state of Georgia, launching six days of memorial events for the 39th president. The Carter family, joined by crowds of ...

It’s the first weekend since an ISIS-inspired Texas man killed more than a dozen people in New Orleans and silenced a city ...

Jimmy Carter's extended public farewell began Saturday in Georgia, with the 39th U.S. president’s flag-draped casket tracing his long arc from the Depression-era South and family farming business to ...

Mike Johnson keeps the speaker’s gavel after Donald Trump convinces holdouts to switch their vote. And we are days away from ...

It was a dramatic beginning to the 119th Congress as Republicans prepare for unified control in Washington. Despite a handful of initial holdouts, Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana was re-elected speaker ...

In our news wrap Friday, the judge in Donald Trump's hush-money case in New York ordered him to appear for sentencing on Jan. 10, South Korean authorities are considering their next steps after ...

The city of New Orleans is inching back to normalcy after the New Year's Day truck attack that killed 14 in the famed French Quarter. Laura Barrón-López reports on how the area’s residents are coping ...

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including Mike Johnson’s reelection as House speaker ...

President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Honor to military recipients who displayed heroism and self-sacrifice in combat and the Medal of Valor to first responders who put their own lives at risk to ...

New Senate Majority Leader John Thune kicked off the new session with a promise to preserve the filibuster, saying in his first floor speech as leader that his priority will be to “ensure the Senate ...

Johnson was able to flip two remaining hardline GOP holdouts who switched to support him, drawing applause from Republicans.

Answers are beginning to trickle out in the deadly New Year's truck attack in New Orleans. Officials revised the death toll to 14 victims plus the suspect. They also gave more details about his ...