A local icon. A symbol of San Francisco politics. A speaker emerita. A matriarch. A badass. So when retired Chronicle librarian Bill Van Niekerken found 1972 photos of the former speaker of the House ...

The effort to name the House Press Gallery after abolitionist Frederick Douglass is getting a push forward as Rep. Byron ...

More Democratic voters are pushing for the party to become more moderate after losing the White House and control of the ...

As political parties squabble over what to put on a possible new national coat-of-arms, some social media users have come up ...

Rights activist Irom Sharmila criticizes President's rule in Manipur, calling for unity and fair representation to address ethnic violence.

Diana Harshbarger is leading a bill to codify a policy that only the U.S. flag can fly over public buildings and ban pride ...

Call it the “Art of the Deadline.” President Trump has in his first few weeks of his second term shown a tendency to set a ...

MUNICH, Germany -- U.S. Vice President JD Vance will visit the Dachau concentration camp memorial Thursday, making a stop at ...

Brought back for second reading was the International Merchant Marine Registry Bill, 2024, to establish the Registry as a ...