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.

The House on Wednesday voted to pass a bill that could imprison health care providers for providing gender-affirming care for minors.

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.

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.

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.

Just hours after passing a massive defense bill that included the worrisome provisions about military flights, the Senate approved a bipartisan bill that will require all aircraft use ADS-B technology — or Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast technology — to broadcast their locations.