The ongoing government shutdown isn’t just the longest in American history. It’s likely the most damaging, too.

Voters up and down the East Coast delivered Democrats a sweep on Tuesday, electing candidates across the party’s ideological spectrum in a vivid show of discontent with President Donald Trump nearly a ...

Six years ago, Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill were roommates and freshman members of Congress, part of a record-breaking wave of women who helped Democrats win back the US House.

When the Hong Kong architect Ho Puay-peng first visited Beijing’s Forbidden City in the late 1980s, he saw many of the historic courtyards used for storage, filled with garbage, and occupied by danwei ...

Kim Yong Nam, a quintessential North Korean bureaucrat whose lifelong loyalty to the ruling Kim dynasty allowed him to serve as the country’s ceremonial head of state for two decades, has died, state ...

A Southern California father who pleaded guilty to killing his missing 7-month-old son was sentenced Monday to more than 30 ...

In the final year of President Donald Trump’s first administration, the CIA carried out a clandestine cyberattack against the Venezuelan government, disabling the computer network used by Venezuelan ...

Dozens of pastors and church members in China have been detained in a mass crackdown. The daughter of pastor Ezra Jin hopes President Donald Trump can appeal for her dad’s freedom in meeting with Xi ...

Mamdani’s family moved to New York when he was 7. Performed as a rapper under the name Mr. Cardamom . Co-founded his high school’s first cricket team. Founded his college’s Students for Justice in ...

Now that the demolition has begun, here’s who’s paying for the overhaul of the country’s most famous residence.

They were faces of the Democratic resistance, a winning piece of the blue wave, when the party swept control of the House of Representatives in 2018 as a fierce reaction to President Donald Trump’s ...

After the government had been shut down for nearly a month, a conspicuously quiet President Donald Trump finally weighed in with a prescription for how to end it.