President Donald Trump's decision to order the bombings of three nuclear sites in Iran has heightened concern about the ...

Sen. Kaine says he won’t stop holding the president to the ‘letter of the law.’ Perhaps he should spend more time studying it ...

How we got to a situation where a President can reasonably claim that it is lawful, without congressional approval, to bomb a ...

The vote against the measure was mostly along party lines, with Republicans opposing it and Democrats almost unanimously in ...

America cannot afford another endless war in the Middle East. Ad Policy A veiled Iranian art student waves a country flag while standing on symbolic debris of a destroyed building as she performs in ...

The Senate on Friday rejected a Democrat-pushed resolution that aimed to rein in the president’s ability to use military ...

But the Constitution makes clear in Article I that Congress — not the president — holds the power to declare war. Yet the U.S ...

Democratic efforts in the Senate to prevent President Donald Trump from further escalating with Iran fell short Friday, with ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump isn’t the first president to order military strikes without congressional approval. But his ...

The Senate voted 53 to 47 to reject a resolution to block the president’s use of force against Iran without congressional ...

In 1973, Congress passed the War Powers Resolution, aiming to clarify, even limit the president's authority to enter the United States into armed conflict without the approval of Congress.