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Revamped legislation would require anyone purchasing the products to provide proof that they are 18 or older. In February of last year, as videos of tweens racing to Sephora for [...]

A competition of sorts has broken out to see who can be the most pro-Trump member of Congress. When Representative Andy Ogles, Republican of Tennessee, filed legislation to try to [...]

Byline: Jacqueline Alemany, Liz Goodwin, Perry Stein A woman testified to the House Ethics Committee that former congressman Matt Gaetz paid her for sex and that she witnessed President-elect Donald [...]

To date, the effort has not produced results, as the Republicans who have promised to hold up nominees and legislation are the ones who usually oppose them anyway. Senator Rick [...]

''I take full responsibility,'' the defense secretary told committee members asking why he did not immediately tell the White House about his hospitalization. Irate Republican lawmakers finally got to chastise [...]

Byline: Liz Goodwin Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in an interview Wednesday he has hope that Republicans will back an eventual deal to swap immigration policy changes [...]

Byline: NICOLAS VAN PRAET; Staff Federal lawmakers are raising questions about how deeply the Canadian government probed the ties of a wealthy Indonesian businessman as his company amassed a commanding [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA -- Canadian Fencing Federation executives were the latest sport leaders called on the carpet by a parliamentary committee to answer for its safe sport record, [...]

Byline: Isaac Stanley-Becker A bogus video of President Biden reinstating the draft and sending America's finest to aid Ukraine's war effort. Fake photos of former president Donald Trump being arrested [...]

Byline: Mariana Alfaro The Senate will vote on the Equal Rights Amendment this week - 100 years after it was first introduced in Congress - Senate Majority Leader Charles E. [...]

Byline: Petula Dvorak It should've been a night of triumph. The governor of Maryland praised his courage. The bill he wrote and pushed for eight painful years passed - to [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss The national news is full of depressing stories about repeated acts of violence in schools, expanding restrictions in Republican-led states on what teachers can say about race [...]

Byline: James Call, The Tallahassee Democrat, USA TODAY Network TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Sen. Corey Simon, R-Tallahassee, wants to penalize fans who violate the field of play by throwing things at [...]

Byline: Marianna Sotomayor WASHINGTON - In between new member orientation meetings late last year, incoming Rep. Nikki Budzinski (D-Ill.) met with Rep. Mary E. Miller (R-Ill.) to seek common ground [...]

Similar proposals to restrict lawmakers' tenures that the party pushed in the 1990s went nowhere. In this new Congress, the result is likely to be the same. WASHINGTON -- In [...]

Byline: Justin George, Rachel Lerman and Hannah Sampson Southwest Airlines accounted for about 85 percent of canceled domestic flights Tuesday, drawing the attention of U.S. regulators and lawmakers amid a [...]

Byline: BILL CURRY; Staff OTTAWA -- Members of Parliament have stepped in to delay a new code of conduct for lobbyists after receiving a wide range of complaints. Some of [...]

Byline: MARK RENDELL; Staff Parliamentarians questioned Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem about inflation and historic financial losses at the central bank on Wednesday, with top opposition politicians looking to [...]

Byline: TOM CARDOSO; Staff SECRET CANADA Canada used to be a world leader in access to information, but has fallen behind because of complacency that has led to a 'dysfunctional [...]

Byline: ANDREW COYNE; Staff In the days before Parliament's return, the press was filled with reporting and analysis with a distinct wrestling-announcer vibe to it. 'A fall brawl looming in [...]

Byline: MARIEKE WALSH; Staff In the final days of a chaotic and inadequate government effort to rescue people from the Taliban last summer, Senator Marilou McPhedran and one of her [...]

Byline: Dan Zak She launched into her new life about noon Friday last week, flying from western Alaska to Anchorage, where she hopped on another plane around 3 a.m. Saturday, [...]

Byline: Steven Mufson WASHINGTON - The world has changed dramatically since the last time Congress considered climate legislation. Last time, it sought to cap greenhouse gas emissions, and the fossil [...]

Byline: MARSHA McLEOD; Staff RCMP officials and the federal Public Safety Minister sidestepped a number of key questions during a parliamentary hearing over the law-enforcement agency's use of controversial tools [...]

To cement the senator's support for a climate and tax package, party leaders promised to pass a law to complete the line and to prioritize some other fossil fuel projects. [...]

Byline: John Wagner Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday that he is working to get sufficient Republican support for the Senate to pass a bill that would federally [...]

Byline: Joey Garrison, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Just when Democrats seemed closer to reviving parts of President Joe Biden's stalled domestic agenda, Sen. Joe Manchin pumped the brakes Wednesday. The [...]

Byline: Dylan Wells, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats will vote Wednesday on a bill that would make Roe v. Wade the law of the land and head off a [...]

Byline: Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Senators pressed Pentagon officials and other experts Wednesday for solutions to the military's suicide crisis and highlighted the need to expand access [...]

Byline: John Wagner Former president Donald Trump castigated Sen. Lindsey O. Graham, R-S.C., one of his closest allies in the Senate, as a 'RINO' for disagreeing with him over whether [...]

Byline: JANICE DICKSON, Staff OTTAWA -- Lead Members of Parliament agreed Wednesday to create a special committee to review the Liberal government's efforts to evacuate Canadian citizens and Afghans after [...]

For the first time, the chief executives of cryptocurrency companies faced questions from lawmakers about risk and regulation. The chief executives of six cryptocurrency companies testified for nearly five hours [...]

Byline: Philip Bump It is often the case that the political discussion in the United States lacks subtlety. Sometimes, that's a function of complexity, that political subjects are intricate and [...]

Byline: Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that the House approved late Friday passed with the help of several Republicans, who faced a swift backlash [...]

Byline: Kevin Freking, and Lisa Mascaro, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - After much delay, senators unveiled a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package Sunday night, wrapping up days of painstaking work [...]

Byline: Maria Sacchetti WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is stalling the confirmation hearing of PresidentJoe Biden's pick to run U.S. Customs and Border Protection over questions about the federal [...]

Byline: Paul Kane WASHINGTON - Early in his tenure, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., took decisive action against a Republican who embraced racist views. 'I've watched on the other [...]