Chuck Grassley

Congress faces a Dec. 11 deadline to avoid a government shutdown, and has to decide whether to pass another coronavirus stimulus bill.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, 87, said he experienced no symptoms after testing positive for Covid-19 earlier this month.

The Florida Republican’s diagnosis comes three days after Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, announced his own coronavirus diagnosis.

Grassley, the president pro tempore of the Senate, isolated earlier Tuesday after he was exposed to the virus.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, third in the line of presidential succession, has tested positive for COVID-19.

Trump has not conceded the race to Biden, whose transition efforts have been stymied by a key agency’s refusal to formally acknowledge him as the winner.

Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett says she has given no pre-commitment on any ruling she may make to the White House or Senate.

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley says he is blocking two Trump administration nominees until the White House provides adequate reasons for the recent termination of two inspectors general

A joint investigation by NBC News and KNTV — NBC’s Bay Area station — found that the F-1 visa program, which lets international students work at firms in the U.S. after graduation, appears to have been exploited by fake companies providing false employment verifications.

The director of the agency overseeing legal entry into the United States, including through green cards and asylum, was asked to resign from the agency on Friday, according to a letter sent out to the agency and obtained by NBC News. L. Francis Cissna has served as President Donald Trump’s only director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency...

A federal appeals court ruled Friday the Trump administration acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner when it sought to end an Obama-era program that shields young immigrants from deportation. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2 to 1 that the Trump administration violated federal law when it tried to end the Deferred Action...

President Donald Trump’s White House hasn’t been known for its careful crafting of policy. But Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, has spent months drawing up a long-awaited immigration overhaul plan that the White House began to roll out Tuesday. Frustrated by congressional inaction and stinging Republican defeats, Kushner has been meeting with GOP groups and speaking with...

Democratic presidential contender Beto O’Rourke on Friday acknowledged making mistakes as a teen and as a candidate, responding to criticism of his campaign rhetoric toward his wife as well as writings he produced online when he was young. During a taping of the “Political Party Live” podcast in Cedar Rapids, he addressed criticism of his campaign-trail joke that his wife,...

Sen. Chuck Grassley announced Friday that he plans to cede the gavel of the Senate Judiciary Committee next year, serving instead as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, NBC News reported. “Looking ahead, at the Finance Committee, I want to continue to work to make sure that as many Americans as possible get to experience this good economy for themselves,”...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pushed out Wednesday after enduring more than a year of blistering and personal attacks from President Donald Trump, who inserted in his place a Republican Party loyalist with authority to oversee the remainder of the special counsel’s Russia investigation. The move has potentially ominous implications for special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe given that the new...

President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that Jeff Sessions was out as attorney general. Matthew G. Whitaker, Sessions’ chief of staff, will become acting attorney general.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned “at the request” of the president, according to a letter he submitted to the White House Wednesday.

The Trump administration is moving to allow year-round sales of gasoline with higher blends of ethanol, a boon for Iowa and other farm states that have pushed for greater sales of the corn-based fuel. President Donald Trump announced he is lifting a federal ban on summer sales of high-ethanol blends during a trip to Iowa on Tuesday.

All 100 senators, and a handful of Senate staff, will be able to read the FBI’s new report on sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. But it’s unclear if the public will see it. Background checks are a routine part of any nominee’s vetting process and are generally delivered to the Senate without much fanfare. This background...

Facing pressure from critics, the White House authorized the FBI to expand its investigation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh beyond restrictions originally set last week. The FBI originally was directed to question only four witnesses: Two friends of Kavanaugh’s, one friend of Dr. Cristine Blasey Ford, and Deborah Ramirez, who accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct while at Yale.