Congress finally wrapped up an agreement on a new COVID relief package to boost a flagging US economy. But despite a last-minute unusual team-up from the left and right pushing for larger direct payments to American adults, lawmakers settled on sending checks of just $600 -- which is just half of $1,200 each adult American received in the last stimulus round.

Sen. Mitt Romney disavowed a Senate hearing held Wednesday by a Republican colleague aimed at legitimizing and propping up Donald Trump's baseless charges of election fraud.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper pulled no punches in vocally condemning the majority of the Republican House caucus who publicly came out in favor of the Texas attorney general’s lawsuit to overturn the 2020 election results in the Supreme Court.

Conservative columnist George Will said that President-elect Joe Biden "would probably be just as happy" to have a Republican-led Senate during his presidency.

Although the majority of the US Senate is still up for grabs, pending the outcome of the two run-off elections in Georgia on January 5, President-elect Biden and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) would do well to have a conversation to set the working relationship between the two longtime Washington insiders, according to a senator who is close to the incoming president.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday that Democrats have "more power" in the federal government going forward and said that will "change his leverage."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taunting Donald Trump on national television over Trump's recent prediction that Republicans would retake the majority in the House of Representatives this year.

A pair of Senate Democrats are speaking out to back up Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's options to deal with an increasingly partisan Supreme Court should he be elected president.

A Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee is calling on his Republican colleagues to pull the nomination of Any Coney Barrett for a seat on the Supreme Court. To do so would go towards healing the acrimony in the nation, he said.

With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's body lying this week in repose at the Supreme Court, partisans both are trying to remember the great jurist Ginsburg proved to be in nearly three decades on the nation's high court as well as engage what's become the quick fight over her successor.