The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is "about as wrong as things could go" for global oil markets. Iran achieved it ...

Sen. John Cornyn will face Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a May runoff. The winner will face James Talarico, a seminarian and state lawmaker who's emerged as a rising Democratic star.

President Donald Trump's Surgeon General pick, Casey Means, is struggling to secure enough support amid concerns over her ...

An effort to curb public school students from attending political rallies during the school day died in committee Wednesday.

During the American Civil War, tens of thousands of soldiers used a simple envelope to cast their ballot from the battlefield ...

Democrats in the Senate were facing an uphill climb Wednesday in their push to restrain President Trump's ability to wage war against Iran.

Claudia Grisales is a congressional correspondent assigned to NPR's Washington Desk.

As the U.S. military broadens its strikes in Iran, traumatized Iranians are reaching the border with Turkey.

Six months after massive youth-led protests that ousted a prime minister, voters in Nepal are headed to the polls on Thursday.

A court in Japan has ordered the Unification Church's local arm dissolved, after it bilked followers for decades. Ties between the church and Japan's ruling party became a political scandal.

Federal employees have been losing their jobs after sting operations engineered by political provocateur James O'Keefe. Now some of them are fighting back in court.

The U.S. and Israel's war with Iran has expanded to the Indian Ocean, as a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters.