The Democrats have taken control of the House of Representatives.  The GOP, meanwhile, kept control of the U.S. Senate.  

President Trump continued his push to end birthright citizenship Wednesday, with days to go before the midterm elections, claiming the 14th Amendment's guarantee of citizenship does not apply to the children of undocumented immigrants.

House Speaker Paul Ryan disagreed with President Trump about the constitutionality of eliminating automatic citizenship for people born in the United States. 

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy says he will introduce a bill this week to fully fund a border wall between the United States and Mexico. 

Congress is set to pass a crucial spending bill that averts a government shutdown, but there's one potential obstacle: President Donald Trump. Neither party wants the government to close ahead of the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress, but Trump has made clear his frustration at the lack of money for his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. 

President Donald Trump declared Friday the U.S. Justice Department should work to identify the writer of a bitingly critical New York Times opinion piece, purportedly submitted by a member of an administration “resistance” movement straining to thwart his most dangerous impulses. 

House Speaker Paul Ryan said the author of the damning New York Times op-ed anonymously written by a senior Trump administration official "is obviously living in dishonesty." 

President Trump chastised Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Twitter on Monday for federal indictments of two sitting Republican congressmen ahead of the midterm elections, the latest attack by a president who pledged to "drain the swamp" against the attorney general he handpicked.  

Sen. John McCain has decided to discontinue medical treatment in his battle with brain cancer, his family said in a statement Friday.

Republicans' efforts to overhaul immigration may be in trouble.

House Speaker Paul Ryan says that the House will aim to pass legislation that will "take action to keep families together" while also enforcing existing immigration laws amid growing pressure over the administration's "zero tolerance" policy. 

House Speaker Paul Ryan says that the House will aim to pass legislation that will "take action to keep families together" while also enforcing existing immigration laws.