The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a bombing near a checkpoint at the Afghan capital’s military airport that killed and wounded several people.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is particularly beloved in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo.

Myanmar’s ruling military leader, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, has described plans for an election later this year and called for national unity in a speech as he led a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of independence from Britain.

House Republicans will open the second day of the new Congress much like the first: leader Kevin McCarthy trying to become House speaker.

The House will convene Wednesday as Republicans try again to elect a speaker for the new Congress.

A Democrat who promised to govern as an independent was elected speaker of the narrowly divided Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday on the strength of every Democrat and more than a dozen GOP votes.

President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House later this month for economic and security consultations.

Newly released documents from the House Jan. 6 committee show that the former Wisconsin Republican Party chairman testified that U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson spoke to him weeks before Joe Biden assumed the presidency about having the state’s GOP-controlled Le…

President Joe Biden will start the new Senate session on Tuesday by resubmitting 85 nominations that fell short last year.

Lincoln Almond, the former two-term Republican governor of Rhode Island and longtime U.S. attorney in the state has died at age 86.