The Senate passed a stopgap funding bill to avert a federal government shutdown shortly after the midnight funding deadline.

Legislation that would allow federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants accused of thefts and related crimes is ...

"Tonight the Senate delivers good news for America: there will be no government shutdown right before Christmas," Schumer ...

Anti-immigrant state officials and federal judges would have new power to dictate immigration enforcement– including whether ...

If Democrats cannot recover their nerve and stand up to this extremism, they will be complicit in the devastating ...

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The new law is expected to hasten Social Security’s insolvency date by about half a year and reduce lifetime benefits by ...

Rep. Zach Nunn says when he served in the Iowa Legislature, no one got rich off of doing it. He now wants his colleagues in D ...

An Illinois state legislator is relieved a recent federal spending bill included taxpayer funds for St. Clair and Washington ...

An Island couple has been handed a $345,915 environmental cleanup bill from the P.E.I. government, more than a year after a ...

More than 1,400 local students took over the State Capitol this weekend for the YMCA of the North's 71st annual Youth in ...

Armenia's government on Thursday gave approval to a bill that calls for the country, once part of the Soviet Union, to launch ...