The Alabama IVF ruling has stoked fears that patients and their health care providers might soon be subject to criminal prosecution in cases where a hoped-for birth goes wrong.

The party had a hand in aiding the rise of a more extreme speaker. That may help with election-year messaging—but it could make things much worse.

The next task for a divided Congress is to find a way to put the “fun” back in “government funding.”

The chaos of Kevin McCarthy’s ouster has breached the upper chamber, where GOP members are worried about another deadline to avoid a government shutdown.

Disagreements between mainstream members of the GOP caucus and their far-right colleagues are getting personal.

The WIC program, which provides vital resources to the neediest families, usually gets the funding it needs without a struggle. Not this time.

Partisan procedural brinkmanship is back, thanks to the House Freedom Caucus’s crusade against military policy.

Some Democrats hope to get a revived version of the popular policy into a government funding package. Here’s what needs to happen in the coming days for this plan to succeed.

Congress has an overwhelming to-do list in the final months of the year, including the not-so-small matter of funding the government.