It is becoming clear what the major challenge will be for Jerome Powell’s successor: Maintaining the Fed’s independence while ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is gaining some key backing on Capitol Hill from GOP senators who fear ...

The Senate Appropriations Committee has advanced the full Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Commerce, Justice, ...

The 12 Republican committee members voted to affirm Emil Bove, President Donald Trump’s former attorney, as Sen. Cory Booker, ...

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said in a new interview with The New York Times that “Republicans are fomenting anti-immigrant ...

Tensions flared at the Capitol Building on Thursday, July 17, when an attempted handover of a protest petition to the ...

The House is expected to approve President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and ...

How Illinois transit systems would avert cuts in 2026 is still under discussion, but an overlooked aspect is a law change lawmakers approved in 2024.

California lawmakers want to limit public access to their addresses and phone numbers after two Minnesota lawmakers were shot, one fatally, in their homes last month.

The House is expected to take up President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency’s spending cuts after Senate Republicans approved $9 billion in cuts to foreign aid and public ...

Judicial officials tried to stop the nomination of Emil Bove to a lifetime appellate judgeship. Prosecutors said they tried ...

Democrats walked out of a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Thursday after the committee approved two controversial Trump ...