Us Lawmaker Shot

The failed assassination bid on former US President Donald Trump is the "most serious" security lapse since the then President Ronald Regan was shot in 1981, the head of the US Secret Service conceded to lawmakers on Monday.

Four people died, including one woman who was shot by a police officer, amid protests and rioting on Capitol Hill by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump who swarmed inside the building as the lawmakers were counting Electoral College votes to certify President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President elect Kamala Harris' election victory.

A US congresswoman who resigned amid lurid revelations about her private life and the publication of nude photos without her consent on Thursday used her final vote in office to accuse President Donald Trump of "abuse of power over women."

Two Louisiana police officers were fired Monday for a Facebook post that suggested Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., should be shot.

Late US senator John McCain took a final swipe at Donald Trump in his farewell message to the nation delivered posthumously Monday, denouncing "tribal rivalries," as an aide confirmed the president will not attend the lawmaker's funeral.

A US congressman apologized Wednesday for recording a video while visiting the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

The gunman who shot four people including a senior US lawmaker last week near Washington had kept a list of six members of Congress and was stockpiling ammunition, investigators said Wednesday.

Top US Republican lawmaker Steve Scalise continued to show improvement as he recovers from being shot by a gunman angry about President Donald Trump, the hospital treating him said Saturday.

US Representative Steve Scalise, the No. 3 House Republican, has shown improvement in the past 36 hours after being shot by a man who opened fire on Republican lawmakers at a baseball practice earlier in the week, his lead surgeon said on Friday.

US lawmakers publicly denounced the killing of an Indian engineer by an American navy veteran in an apparent hate crime in Kansas City, saying there is no place for these senseless acts of violence in the country.

President Barack Obama has made a plea for Republican cooperation on immigration, seeking common ground by year's end in the aftermath of the divisive partial government shutdown. Yet prospects for success this year remain a long shot even as a handful of House Republican lawmakers push for more limited measures.

A volley of shots rang out outside the US Capitol building on Thursday, sending lawmakers and tourists scattering for cover and triggering a massive security operation.

Rolling through small Southern towns in a campaign-style bus, US President Barack Obama on Monday pressed lawmakers back in Washington to start taking up pieces of his rejected jobs bill and mocked the Republicans who had shot it down in total. The Senate moved to vote soon on one part, a plan to help states hire teachers, but the proposal seemed d...

Photographs of Representative Gabrielle Giffords were posted on her Facebook page Sunday, the first clear public images of her since she began rehabilitation from a bullet wound to the brain in January. A spokesman said Ms. Giffords and her husband, the astronaut Mark E. Kelly, released the photographs in an effort to prevent her from being hounded...

The failed assassination bid on former US President Donald Trump is the "most serious" security lapse since the then President Ronald Regan was shot in 1981, the head of the US Secret Service conceded to lawmakers on Monday.

Four people died, including one woman who was shot by a police officer, amid protests and rioting on Capitol Hill by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump who swarmed inside the building as the lawmakers were counting Electoral College votes to certify President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President elect Kamala Harris' election victory.

A US congresswoman who resigned amid lurid revelations about her private life and the publication of nude photos without her consent on Thursday used her final vote in office to accuse President Donald Trump of "abuse of power over women."

Two Louisiana police officers were fired Monday for a Facebook post that suggested Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., should be shot.

Late US senator John McCain took a final swipe at Donald Trump in his farewell message to the nation delivered posthumously Monday, denouncing "tribal rivalries," as an aide confirmed the president will not attend the lawmaker's funeral.

A US congressman apologized Wednesday for recording a video while visiting the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

The gunman who shot four people including a senior US lawmaker last week near Washington had kept a list of six members of Congress and was stockpiling ammunition, investigators said Wednesday.

Top US Republican lawmaker Steve Scalise continued to show improvement as he recovers from being shot by a gunman angry about President Donald Trump, the hospital treating him said Saturday.

US Representative Steve Scalise, the No. 3 House Republican, has shown improvement in the past 36 hours after being shot by a man who opened fire on Republican lawmakers at a baseball practice earlier in the week, his lead surgeon said on Friday.

US lawmakers publicly denounced the killing of an Indian engineer by an American navy veteran in an apparent hate crime in Kansas City, saying there is no place for these senseless acts of violence in the country.

President Barack Obama has made a plea for Republican cooperation on immigration, seeking common ground by year's end in the aftermath of the divisive partial government shutdown. Yet prospects for success this year remain a long shot even as a handful of House Republican lawmakers push for more limited measures.

A volley of shots rang out outside the US Capitol building on Thursday, sending lawmakers and tourists scattering for cover and triggering a massive security operation.

Rolling through small Southern towns in a campaign-style bus, US President Barack Obama on Monday pressed lawmakers back in Washington to start taking up pieces of his rejected jobs bill and mocked the Republicans who had shot it down in total. The Senate moved to vote soon on one part, a plan to help states hire teachers, but the proposal seemed d...

Photographs of Representative Gabrielle Giffords were posted on her Facebook page Sunday, the first clear public images of her since she began rehabilitation from a bullet wound to the brain in January. A spokesman said Ms. Giffords and her husband, the astronaut Mark E. Kelly, released the photographs in an effort to prevent her from being hounded...