The Senate in the early hours of Saturday passed a stopgap funding package, avoiding a government shutdown that would have furloughed hundreds of thousands of federal workers and bringing a ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century of authoritarian rule. While there have been bursts ...

The Senate voted overwhelmingly in the early hours of Saturday to pass legislation to boost Social Security benefits for more than 2 million Americans. The legislation will repeal two statutes ...

Twisted equipment and snapped tree limbs still litter Chris Hopkins’ Georgia farm more than two months after Hurricane Helene made its deadly march across the South. An ...

The Senate is slated to vote on the interim funding package to avoid government shutdown on Friday night ahead of the ...

More than 30 House Republicans voted against the government funding bill to avert a shutdown on Friday night.  The legislation cleared the lower chamber with a 366-34-1 vote, surpassing the ...

A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 60 others in what ...

The Biden administration on Friday withdrew a pending regulation governing transgender athletes, abandoning an effort to provide some protections for transgender students that the incoming Trump ...

House Republicans are searching for a way to avoid a government shutdown, hours before the late Friday deadline, after their ...

The House approved legislation to avert a government shutdown hours before the deadline on Friday, sending the bill to the Senate for consideration after a whirlwind week on Capitol Hill. The ...

The House voted on the third version of a spending bill to keep the government open at 5 p.m. Friday, with the shutdown ...

Doctors Without Borders said Israel is committing “clear signs of ethnic cleansing” in its war in Gaza.   In its latest ...