Trump’s second presidency has accelerated the growth of executive power at the expense of the legislative branch, raising ...

Long the most critical branch of the federal government, Congress has ceded much of its own institutional power. Here's how ...

With the strikes on Iran already underway, the main mechanism for Congress to try to halt it is the War Powers Act ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But there was a time when Americans saw Congress stand up to a president who unilaterally took the country to war. It was at the ...

Congress has attempted to terminate the U.S. military involvement in Iran by passing a concurrent resolution, but the ...

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This week efforts under the War Powers Act to check President Trump’s unconstitutional and unauthorized war in Iran failed on a mostly party line split in both the House and the Senate. The result isn ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Congress is moving toward a war powers fight as U.S. strikes on Iran underway. Lawmakers face a defining test as the president expands his authority amid an active conflict. Operation Epic Fury shows ...

The U.S. Congress is about to launch a war powers debate over President Donald Trump's authority to bomb Iran under largely unusual circumstances — he has already done it, and the country is ...

Lawmakers could vote as soon as this week on a resolution aimed at restricting President Trump's military authority against Iran. Lawmakers are trying to limit President Donald Trump's military ...