For starters, Congress’s failure to address and resolve the major challenges facing the country — immigration, runaway budget and trade deficits, climate, rising inequality of income ...

Advocates are wondering what Congress could do next to flex its authority over the nation’s capital, after a scramble over unexpected budget cuts sent hundreds of locals and their kids to plead ...

During one session, the bishops picked the official logo of the Asian Mission Congress 2025 (AMC 2025), scheduled in Penang, Malaysia, from 27 to 30 November centred on the theme “The Great ...

“Oh, the vision thing,” was his infamous dismissal of the idea. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the “Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises ...

WASHINGTON — Washington, D.C., which has often had a tenuous peace with the federal government when Republicans controlled Congress and the White House, is now facing its most urgent threat ...

Congress is struggling to strike a deal to keep the government funded as a looming deadline to prevent a shutdown next month gets closer. Lawmakers are less than a month away from a mid-March date ...

President Donald Trump’s speech before a joint session of Congress put the final nail in the coffin of the Democrats' recognition as the political party of compassion – which was first ...

Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a House-passed spending bill that exposed deep rifts within the Democratic Party.

WASHINGTON — The path to avert a government shutdown at the end of the week remains murky in the Republican-controlled Congress. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is eyeing a House vote Tuesday on a ...

At Trump’s speech last week to a joint session of Congress, Democratic lawmakers sat in the House chamber holding up paddles reading “False.” Late night talk show hosts mocked that bit of ...