President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that he has canceled a meeting to discuss government funding with senior lawmakers scheduled for Thursday, raising the odds that parts of the federal ...

Congressional Democrats on Wednesday evening introduced their own proposal to prevent a government shutdown at the end of the ...

Good evening. The Supreme Court just allowed the Trump administration to unilaterally freeze more than $4 billion in foreign aid, delivering another win for President Trump in his push for more power ...

With a government shutdown deadline just six days away, Republican and Democratic congressional leaders are doing plenty of talking — just not with each other. That leaves the path to avoid a shutdown ...

The General Services Administration, which manages offices and real estate for the federal government, has reportedly asked hundreds of employees who were laid off during the Trump administration’s ...

Good evening. The shutdown countdown is at six. The signs of progress are still at zero. Here’s what you should know tonight. With a government shutdown deadline just six days away, Republican and ...

Happy Thursday! Today, 9/25/2025, is the last “perfect square day” — in which the month, day and year are all square numbers — in most of our lifetimes. The next perfect square year won’t be until ...

Fact check: Sticking together still won’t get Republicans to the magic number.

Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, author of a comprehensive new book, Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution, says Barack Obama was an amazing law student. During a broad ...

Before the smoke turned white at the Vatican on March 13, 2013, people who knew Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, believed he would fundamentally change the Vatican and ...

The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals. Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...

Opinions about tax policy are divided in the U.S. along fairly predictable partisan lines, with Republicans typically expressing preferences for lower taxes compared to Democrats, but how do those ...