The Senate votes today, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, on two congressional spending bills as the government shutdown 2025 continues into Day 8 amid a bitter battle on Capitol Hill as President Donald Trump...

Republican and Democratic lawmakers have provided few public signs of meaningful negotiations to break an impasse on reopening the federal government as the shutdown entered its sixth day on Monday.

Leaders of unions representing hundreds of thousands of federal employees called on both parties to compromise, as the workers they represent prepare to receive their last paychecks until the standof...

Trump's Justice Department is also investigating other antagonists, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, Democratic California Senator Adam Schiff and John Bolton, who served as a natio...

Officials in Illinois braced Tuesday for the possible arrival of the National Guard while a legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s plan to send hundreds of troops to the Chicago area still simme...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, said the deployment was a pretext for a military takeover in a press conference on Monday afternoon, calling it an “unconstitutional invasion.”

Former FBI Director James Comey is set to make his first court appearance Wednesday morning in a Justice Department criminal case accusing him of lying to Congress five years ago.

Former FBI Director James Comey is set to make his first court appearance Wednesday in a Justice Department criminal case accusing him of having lied to Congress five years ago.

The indictment of Mr. Comey is the most significant legal action yet taken against those Mr. Trump has publicly targeted for retribution.