President Donald Trump announced Friday that he commuted the prison sentence of former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y.

Lawsuit claims that firing federal employees during a shutdown is an unlawful abuse of power aimed at punishing workers, ...

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With the government shutdown entering its third week, congressional action mostly consisted of dueling leadership news ...

Nearly 42 million people could be left without monthly food benefits if the federal government doesn't reopen before funding ...

With no action on the floor or in committees, they’re passing the time in the shutdown with pressers, meetings and even a few ...

A federal judge in California indicated she would expand her temporary ruling blocking federal worker layoffs during the government shutdown.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., a Trump ally who leads the Senate Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, deferred to ...

The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to rule against requiring Louisiana to have a second Black-majority district.

Laid off employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are asking for details on the extent and rationale for ...

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills made her much-anticipated entry into the Maine Senate race, seeking to challenge Republican Sen.

Trump’s latest budget maneuver — paying military salaries out of unrelated research funding — makes lawmakers’ appropriations authority practically irrelevant, critics argue.