Gov. Kathy Hochul cast the measure in unusually personal terms, saying she had felt “the pain of seeing someone you love suffer and feeling powerless to stop it.”

A majority of House Democrats rejected the Kayla Hamilton Act requiring gang screening for unaccompanied migrant minors after tragic murder involving MS-13 member.

Congress just passed its $900 billion annual defense policy bill, sending it to President Trump's desk for a signature.

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed a compromise version of the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, a nearly $1 trillion bill setting policy for the Pentagon that Congress has passed for 65 straight years.

Health care analysts predict hospitals and other providers will raise prices to cover the double whammy of lost Medicaid revenue and the cost of caring for an influx of newly uninsured patients.

Brazil’s Senate approved legislation to reduce the sentence former leader Jair Bolsonaro must serve for plotting a coup after his narrow 2022 election loss, setting up a potential clash between Congress,

Brazil's Senate approved on Wednesday a bill to shorten the 27-year prison sentence of former President Jair Bolsonaro, although it is likely to face resistance from the Supreme Court and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

The measure had little chance of consideration in the Senate, where it would need bipartisan support to move, but it reflected the priorities of the Republican majority.