WASHINGTON (WHSV) - Nearly 250 years ago on Sept. 9, 1776, the Continental Congress gave the United States its name. The United States of America, as it’s called today, had only been known up to that ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to fire the director of the U.S.

Congress is not on the ballot this November, but it will be in the 2026 midterms. A year from now, Americans in every state ...

Carl Hulse is the chief Washington correspondent for The Times, primarily writing about Congress and national political races ...

WASHINGTON — The federal government has shut down after lawmakers in Congress failed to strike a deal on a funding bill, forcing agencies to furlough their "non-essential" employees. Under the ...

As the shutdown enters week three, some lawmakers are refusing paychecks or donating salaries to stand with unpaid federal ...

Currently, 123 members of the 118th Congress publicly deny the scientific consensus of human-caused climate change. The Center for American Progress has periodically analyzed statements by sitting ...

The Trump administration has been signaling that it may have finally reached a deal with China to keep TikTok running in the ...

As the calendar turns to November, so, too, will our clocks turn back to standard time as daylight saving (not savings) time ...