The Senate approved a House GOP-crafted spending bill hours before the shutdown deadline Friday evening, capping off the first funding fight of President Trump’s second term — a saga that ripped ...

In his continuing push to clean up Hudson River pollutants, U.S. Rep. Pat Ryan has urged the head of President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency to rule that additional polychlorinated ...

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Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin sparked controversy this week when he appeared on the Senate floor wearing a cowboy hat.

Relatives are remembering former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming as "an uncommonly generous man" who was "gifted in ...

Rep. Thomas Massie is the sort of guy who drives the wrong way down a one-way street simply because he wants to. This time ...

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is planning to announce that he won't seek Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat in ...

Given the US president’s closeness to regime ally Russia, and the EU’s priority in Ukraine, Myanmar’s pro-democracy forces ...

Critics say members of either party could use the maneuver to disguise trillions of spending through tax policies. Democrats argue that if Republicans move forward, they would be doing away with ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned that Republicans lack the votes in the upper chamber to pass their plan to avert ...

House Republicans advanced a stopgap bill Tuesday to fund the government until October, putting moderate Senate Democrats in ...

The latest news on President Donald Trump’s administration as the House is expected to vote on a continuing resolution to ...