The notification is classified and likely describes Trump's justification for the attack that killed the high-level Iranian official, who was considered second in power to the Ayatollah.

Democrats slammed Donald Trump saying he is not a 'dictator' after he warned his tweet should serve as notification to Congress that the U.S. will 'strike back' if Iran launches a revenge attack.

The official was part of a briefing to the House Intelligence Committee, which is chaired by Democratic Trump enemy Adam Schiff, and told lawmakers about Russia's repeat offending.

Diamond and Silk are in the spotlight again as Mark Zuckerberg's congressional hearing comes to a close. The pair rose to fame as right-wing YouTubers who support Donald Trump.

Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and conspiracy theorist, announced she is launching a congressional bid to become a U.S. representative in the district just north of Miami, Florida.

A Democratic socialist candidate running for Congress in Texas wished a deadly cancer upon Barack Obama, and claimed the former president 'gives zero f***s about y'all.'

Rep. Sean Duffy and his wife Rachel Campos-Duffy proudly pointed to their reality show past as they helped support another reality personality tonight at the Republican National Convention.

Long-standing Iowa Representative Steve King has caused a storm by claiming that non-whites had contributed nothing towards civilization. Steve King was mocked on social media.

Iowa representative Steve King (pictured), shared the message Saturday, commending Dutch nationalist party leader Geert Wilder for his understanding of 'culture and demographics'.

Obama didn't notify members of Congress about the trade until it was happening, but the deal, involving the U.S., Qatar and the Taliban, likely took weeks to engineer.

Trump launched into a Twitter rant against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Saturday evening after she and Senate Leader Mitch McConnell turned down his offer of five-minute COVID-19 tests.

The Democratic hopeful - who is currently polling at around 1% - revealed the news on Thursday night, shortly before an appearance on Sean Hannity's Fox News program.

Donald Trump let loose on his Democratic opponents in his first campaign rally since his impeachment trial began, telling his supporters to 'get rid of the clowns.'

Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw called out Hillary Clinton on Fox and Friends on Sunday for mocking Trump's 'America first' policy amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The U.S. Representative from Ohio walked out on stage in Philadelphia wearing a white gown virtually matching the dress worn by Trump's wife Melania during her speech last week.

Safford City Councilman Chris Taylor, a married father-of-two, was found unresponsive at his home last week and had to be revived with Narcan, prompting him to pull out of the congressional race.

The Dow soared more than 2,000 points on Tuesday in its strongest one-day performance since 1933 as US lawmakers neared a $2 trillion coronavirus aid deal.

President Donald Trump leveled a new threat at Congress Wednesday, threatening to try to force Congress into adjournment in order to install additional nominees.

Donald Trump's threat to deploy a never-used power to force Congress to adjourn immediately stalled after comments by Mitch McConnell's office and scholars who say it can't happen.

The House approved a $484 billion economic measure designed to give additional relief to small businesses feeling the squeeze from the coronavirus.

The Prime Minister has been performing a 'campaign blitzkrieg' as Gujurat polls loom.

Congress president-in-waiting Rahul Gandhi is set to take over the reins of the party next week and is expected to usher in a new era as the chief without a whip, highly placed sources said.

All 89 nominations filed on Monday proposed party vice-president Rahul Gandhi as leader, setting in motion celebrations and preparations for the imminent change of guard on Tuesday.

Congress suspended Aiyar from the primary membership of the party and issued a show-cause notice to him after he called Modi 'a neech aadmi'.

Satish Acharya on... Modi and Congress.

The announcement was made by the party central election authority (CEA) head Mullappally Ramachandran on Monday afternoon against a backdrop of fireworks and cheering outside.

Satish Acharya on... passing the baton to the new Congress president

'Generational shift' has been the buzzword in the party headquarters over the past few months as the entire party rank and file looks at Rahul to pull it out of a long-standing inertia.

Rahul Gandhi and the Congress should take heart in the fight back against odds and prepare for 2019, writes V Narasimhan.

After being reduced to four states in the country, the Congress party under its new chief Rahul Gandhi is set to first focus on rebuilding state organisations before strategising.

West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that there were many reasons for the defeat and the party would review them

The West Bengal CM said that there was an attempt to create fear among people but they overcame and voted fearlessly

Chief Minister and party supremo Mamata Banerjee said that she will take oath on May 27

To read the results as a saffron surge or decimation of the Congress is to miss the big picture

The Congress emerged as the main opposition party in the recent Assembly elections bagging 44 seats in the 294-member house

Cong hits out, citing actor's alleged involvement in Panama papers; BJP defends choice

The political party asks, 'kiska saath, kiska vikaas?'

Attacking the Modi rule, the Congress party said that the NDA govt is acting like an event manager

The opposition party also demanded that the Centre pays all pending dues to states to enable them to fight the outbreak, besides giving each of them special packages.

The MLA from the Khadia-Jamalpur seat of Ahmedabad will be admitted to a designated Covid-19 hospital soon

The Congress said Rail Ministry has charged a 'special fare' from migrants for the 'Shramik Special' trains

The party, which ruled Delhi for 15 years on the trot under former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, failed to open its account for the second consecutive assembly election in Delhi

Sharmishtha is daughter of former President Pranab Mukherjee, who has been a Congress leader all his life

Early trends showed the AINRC and Congress in a neck-and-neck race

While it lost elections in the ruling Assam and Kerala, Indian National Congress has received some form of relief as it has emerged as single largest party with 15 seats at Puducherry and could form government in the Union Territory.Together, the ...

Potomac Watch: Congress has found its own neat and plausible answer to the Covid-19 pandemic: spend, spend some more. Thankfully, a few elected leaders are starting to realize it’s wrong. Image: Win McNamee/Getty Images

BJP wins in Assam, opens account in Kerala; Congress loses two states; Left sweeps Kerala; Mamata decimates Opposition in West Bengal

US lawmakers have introduced a legislation in Congress to give unused green cards or permanent legal residency status to thousands of foreign nurses and doctors to meet the urgent needs of the overstretched healthcare sector in the country. The Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act would allow for recapturing green cards that were approved by Congress but unused in past years, allowing thousands of additional medical professionals to serve permanently in the United States. The legislation would send green cards to 25,000 nurses and 15,000 doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure that places like Iowa have the professionals they need to serve patients for years to come, a media release said. The move is likely to benefit a large number of Indian nurses and doctors, who are either on H-1B or J2 visas. In the House of Representatives, it has been introduced by lawmakers Abby Finkenauer, Brad Schneider, Tom Cole and Don Bacon. The bipartisan Senate companion bill is led by Senators ..