The Library of Congress, a 225-year-old Washington institution, has never had a moment like this. Here’s more about the library and the mystery of who’s in charge now.

It got going big-time in 1815, when former President Thomas Jefferson sold his 6,500-volume library to Congress to replace the one that was destroyed when the British burned the Capitol on Aug. 24 ...

It stores financial information about legislative branch employees, who include not just those at the Library of Congress, lawmakers and their aides, but employees of the Capitol Police, the ...

US Rep. Ed Case (HI-01), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, voted against the Fiscal Year 2026 Legislative Branch Appropriations bill in committee on Thursday, criticizing it for ...

The Library of Congress is not a community lending library. By law, it stocks pretty much every copyrighted book published in the United States. And it doesn’t allow children to access its holdings.

“On Tuesday, January 21, the United States Capitol Police (USCP) ... 27, was stopped as he returned to his car after leaving the Library of Congress at around 2:15 p.m.

President Donald Trump fired Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, via email at 6:56 p.m. ET on May 8, 2025. Critics are condemning his decision, which came after Hayden's appearance earlier this ...

The Library of Congress, located at the corner of 1st Street and Independence Avenue near the US Capitol and Supreme Court buildings in Washington, DC, on Dec. 19, 2013. AP You are viewing 1 of 4 ...

Two officials at the Justice Department selected by Donald Trump to take on positions at the Library of Congress were turned away from the premises on Monday in what was described to the media as ...

The Capitol building also housed the Library of Congress, and its 3,000 volumes of highly combustible material could not be moved so quickly. The volumes were ignited by British troops.