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LGBTQ rights advocates call for state Rep. Cheryl Helmer to be formally censured after she publicly said she didn't want to share the women's restrooms at the Statehouse with a transgender colleague.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a congressional delegation to meet with the leaders of Ukraine and Poland. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff about the trip.

President Obama signed an executive order Monday giving up to seven paid sick days a year to employees of federal contractors. The White House says this could benefit around 300,000 workers.

President Trump is trying to change the narrative on immigration. He held an event Friday with families to highlight victims of crimes allegedly committed by people in the country illegally.

President Trump has shown a willingness to attack Democratic norms and traditions, including injecting partisanship in places typically immune to it.

More than two months since a massive and deadly debris flow slammed the community of Montecito, Calif., hundreds of volunteers are working to carve paths to front doors and dig out kitchens.

Recently edited guidelines from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons no longer ask that an inmate's gender identity be considered when recommending a housing facility for them.

The state is poised to become the first in the country to require the panels on new single-family houses, with a few exceptions. The mandate will kick in as of 2020.

Emory Rounds III, if confirmed by the Senate, will take charge of the Office of Government Ethics, a once obscure agency that advises federal workers on how to comply with ethics laws.

The White House budget office is reviewing a proposal, drafted by the Department of Health and Human Services, similar to a discontinued Reagan-era policy that critics describe as the "gag rule."