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 new leader of the lower chamber finally announced committee assignments, formalizing a new order in the lower chamber.

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

A bill introduced three weeks ago that would overhaul how the legal system handles juveniles caught with firearms appears to ...

Three Democratic representatives have introduced a bill to establish a committee overseeing the redesign of the Washington ...

President Trump’s moves to pause refugee resettlement, freeze foreign aid and suspend funds to promote democracy have added ...

It was just one month before the general election in 1978, and Beverly Byron was like a “house afire — on a mission,” her son ...

Delaware’s newest member of Congress is its first-ever openly transgender member. Why doesn’t she talk about it more?

"Moore's law changed the world at 2x every 18 months; this is unbelievably stronger," Altman wrote in a blog post on Sunday.

Kendrick Lamar promised he’d tell some stories and performed the song everyone has been talking about during the Super Bowl ...