September 30, 2023, 12:29pm Latest News Updated 7 mins ago
Senate also in rare weekend session as deadline for government shutdown looms Read story
September 29, 2023, 1:00pm Latest News Updated 1 day ago
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's last-ditch plan to keep the federal government temporarily open collapsed on Friday as hard-right holdouts rejected the package, making a shutdown almost certain. Read story
September 29, 2023, 9:57am Nation & World
The Navy will begin randomly testing its special operations forces for steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs beginning in November, taking a groundbreaking step that military leaders have long resisted. Read story
September 29, 2023, 7:57am Politics
A U.S. government shutdown is now a near-certainty, with House Republicans unable to even agree on their demands to continue funding federal operations, much less reach a deal with Democrats and President Joe Biden. Read story
September 29, 2023, 7:52am Politics
With little time left to prevent a government shutdown, the House is in a familiar position: effectively paralyzed as conservatives feud with Speaker Kevin McCarthy over matters large and small. Read story
September 29, 2023, 7:50am Politics
All House members, officers and employees are still subject to the ethics rules and regulations during a government shutdown, including the gift rule, a House Ethics Committee memo Thursday states. Read story
September 28, 2023, 5:05pm Politics
The Supreme Court starts a new term Monday replete with cases that will test how far the conservative majority could reshape the nation’s laws when it comes to gun regulations, medication abortion, congressional redistricting and the power of federal regulatory agencies. Read story
September 28, 2023, 3:44pm Politics
A Senate hearing Thursday on the nomination of the official to be the Pentagon's top policy adviser was dominated by Republicans expressing their frustrations with the Biden administration's foreign policies, from the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan to Ukraine funding and climate change. Read story
September 28, 2023, 2:22pm Politics
The FBI and other government agencies should be required to get court approval before reviewing the communications of U.S. citizens collected through a secretive foreign surveillance program, a sharply divided privacy oversight board recommended on Thursday. Read story
September 28, 2023, 12:25pm Latest News Updated 2 days ago
House Republicans launched a formal impeachment hearing Thursday against President Joe Biden, promising to “provide accountability” as they probe the family finances and business dealings of his son Hunter and make their case to the public, colleagues and a skeptical Senate. Read story