The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.

Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team have been struggling to find consensus behind an election-year agenda to address Americans’ chief concerns over affordability and their cost-of-living.

NBC News is tracking the topics covered in the 2026 State of the Union address, in a live-updating data visualization.

U.S. military officials released the names of four American soldiers killed in the war with Iran as the State Department sought additional flights to get more than 1,000 U.S. citizens out of the ...

Funding Standoff: Senate Democrats blocked a measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security as lawmakers remained locked in a standoff that could shut down the agency this weekend. The bill ...

WASHINGTON − A furious President Donald Trump slammed the Supreme Court after a landmark decision striking down his power to impose sweeping tariffs. "I'm ashamed of certain members of the court, ...

Iran: President Trump told reporters on Friday that he was considering a limited military strike to pressure Iran into a deal. “I guess I can say I am considering that,” he said at the start of a ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading the U.S. delegation to the high-profile Munich Security Conference — one year after Vice President JD Vance took the German stage in a speech that stunned ...

A massive U.S.-Israeli joint military offensive called “Operation Epic Fury” is underway in Iran, targeting Islamic Republic regime leadership and military targets that pose an "imminent threat." A ...

Former President Joe Biden delivered remarks at Rev. Jesse Jackson's funeral on Friday at House of Hope in Chicago, telling the crowd to take home with them Jackson's own central message: "Don't give ...

Former presidents are just like us. Joe Biden got stuck in delays Friday while flying commercially from Reagan National Airport.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Joe Biden made a rare public appearance on Friday in South Carolina, basking in the appreciation of Democrats who resuscitated his presidential campaign six years ago. Although ...