In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” WTOP’s Matt Kaufax heads to downtown D.C. to learn the story behind the original U.S. Capitol pillars.

One was found perched on a marble column in Statuary Hall, another was seen propped up on a pillar directly outside doors to ...

Washington, D.C., hasn’t always been the political center of the United States. In fact, nine different cities across the ...

Refusing to attend the speech would be the first indication that Democrats are not just playing politics—and playing them ...

The “Take It Down Act,” sponsored by Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., passed the Senate in February.

In his fifth presidential address to Congress, President Donald Trump now presides over a Republican-dominated audience.

Those who have been impacted call out ‘chaos’ in Trump administration cuts — and warn that the purge puts at risk the United ...

During his first six weeks in office, President Donald Trump has worked to tear down the federal government and attack ...

We need congressional leaders to draw upon how we’ve tackled big problems before to deal with this fiscal dilemma.

ALBANY —  A proposal to close a Social Security Administration office in White Plains is drawing ire from an array of New ...

Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., 77, represents Arizona's 7th Congressional District, which stretches along the border with ...

So elected officials aren’t exalting their lifestyle in speeches in the Wyoming State Capitol or patting them on the back ...