Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate. The filibuster requires most legislation to get 60 votes, which has allowed ...

Get live updates and the latest news as the government shutdown hits the one month mark, with Trump administration promising ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune's stance on the filibuster is "unchanged" despite President Trump's call to scrap the rule to end the government shutdown. Follow live updates here.

But the crime of cyber libel, considering the afflictive penalties defined by the law, must therefore be 15 years – even if the law does not explicitly state this. The nature of the penalty by itself ...

Taylor recalled a distressed White House situation room meeting in 2017 during Trump’s game of brinksmanship with North ...

The billionaire and fascism enthusiast’s company SpaceX is getting $2 billion in government funding to develop satellites ...

The air is turning blue over the Capitol Dome. And the government is more shut than ever. Washington woke Thursday to a whiff of rare hope that behind-the-scenes efforts were accelerating in the ...

Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and the majority leader, again rejected President Trump’s call to eliminate ...

Whether to extend the subsidies is at the center of the federal shutdown fight. Meanwhile, open enrollment starts Saturday.

A federal judge suggested she could rule within the day on whether to order the Trump administration to release $5 billion in contingency funds for SNAP.

What’s seldom understood by the program’s critics is its importance to the U.S. economy generally and the farm economy in particular.