Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) addressed the upper chamber and publicly declared his intention to vote for the ...

Just hours before a shutdown was set to start, Congress passed a bill to keep the government funded for the next six months. Republicans averted the shutdown with the help of a key Democrat.

The Democratic Party was fracturing Friday as a torrent of frustration and anger was unleashed at Senate Democrats, led by ...

A familiar scene has played out over and over in the U.S. House: Republicans, unable to approve federal funding legislation ...

President Donald Trump forges ahead with his efforts to remake the federal government after the Senate passed a stopgap bill ...

The spending measure, which passed the House earlier in the week, was presented to the Senate as a take-it-or-leave-it ...

President Trump has taken a blowtorch to our country and wielded chaos like a weapon. Most Republicans in Congress, meanwhile ...

The Senate finds itself in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to spare ...

The disappearance of a Shasta County woman is now being investigated as a homicide, the sheriff's office said on Friday. Nikki Cheng Saelee-McCain was initially reported missing by family members on ...

Johnson is often thought of as the accidental speaker. And it’s true that he was pulled out of quasi-obscurity after the caucus took down his predecessor Kevin McCarthy just 17 months ago. At the time ...

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Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a ...