U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes says her focus will always be on everyday people, and she's working to expand opportunities for 13th District constituents.

Sen. James Lankford has been trying to pass legislation in response to an industry he believes will leave small towns without many pharmacy options.

We Were Wrong' ・In SCOTUS Case, a 'Historic Victory for Gender Justice' ・After Bishop's Pleas for 'Mercy,' Trump Responds ・Trump Pardons 'Dread Pirate Roberts' This article originally appeared on Newser: Congress Passes Laken Riley Act

Congress passed the Laken Riley Act with bipartisan support. Here's what the strict measure really means for undocumented immigrants.

The bill would require law enforcement to detain immigrants without legal status arrested for crimes including larceny and shoplifting.

We all learned early in life that the Founding Fathers gave Congress the “Power of the Purse” on spending to act as a check on the executive branch, but it sure hasn’t looked like that in the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term in office.

President Donald Trump signed the first bill of his new administration – the Laken Riley Act, named for an AU nursing student who was slain on the University of Georgia campus.

The legislation mandates the detention and potential deportation of people in the U.S. illegally who are accused of theft and violent crimes before they have actually been convicted.

New legislation Hinson introduced, called the Swamp Act, would move federal agency headquarters out of Washington, D.C. She said she's happy to speak to Congress members about where different agencies make sense. Hinson co-sponsored the legislation with Democratic Rep. Jared Golden from Maine.

The bill is named after Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, who was killed in 2024 by a Venezuelan national in the U.S. illegally.

Noting that India's GDP growth for 2024-25 is expected to be 6.4 per cent as per government data, the Congress on Thursday said that the Modi government is taking India into the "middle-income trap, which will make us uncompetitive,