Just as the government funding deadline arrived early Saturday, Congress passed an interim plan to prevent a shutdown after a ...

Republican lawmakers say Congress’s near brush with a government shutdown shows that House Republicans do not have a functional majority, giving them a bad feeling about how difficult it will be ...

Lawmakers came together to fund the government on Friday, keeping the lights on in Washington until early next year and preventing a Christmas season shutdown. The package — crafted by Speaker ...

The latest government funding proposal being assembled by GOP leaders likely will include some must-pass short-term ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a weight-loss drug to help sleep apnea, becoming the first drug to treat the disorder affecting millions of Americans. On Friday, the federal agency ...

Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio’s son, Anthony, scored his first touchdown in the Gasparilla Bowl against Tulane, ...

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee condemned the Supreme Court for an “ethical crisis of its own making” in a new report released Saturday. The report follows Democrats’ 20-month ...

Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Tina Smith (Minn.) are reintroducing legislation aimed at strengthening U.S.

President Biden and his administration were largely absent from the onerous negotiations on government funding that gripped Capitol Hill this week. Instead, President-elect Trump and his allies ...

The Senate voted overwhelmingly in the early hours of Saturday to pass legislation to boost Social Security benefits for more than 2 million Americans. The legislation will repeal two statutes ...

A state circuit court judge blocked some parts of Missouri’s near-total abortion ban after an abortion ballot measure’s passage in November. But the ruling preserved other restrictions, including ...

The Senate is slated to vote on the interim funding package to avoid government shutdown on Friday night ahead of the ...