A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

The U.S. government shut down much of its operations on October 1 after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach an agreement to extend funding past the end of the federal fiscal year on September 30.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faced backlash from members of Congress after he accused Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) of "storming" Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's news conferenc...

The senator was stopped and shoved back by multiple men.

“If it can happen to Alex, it can happen to ... anybody,” Rep. Jimmy Gomez said.

Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

Someday, Donald Trump will understand that it's not always good news when oil prices fall. But today is not that day.

Did Congressional Democrats hold an inaugural meeting of something they described as a "shadow government" in the United States in April 2025? No, that's not true: On April 7, Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Jamie Raskin led Democrat members of...

Traders leaving the New York Stock Exchange were trying to make sense of another day of volatility

Duke University is the second Triangle university after NC State to have students whose visas were terminated by the U.S. State Department this year.

Starting April 14, phone service will no longer be an option for retirees and survivors applying for benefits, or for beneficiaries making direct deposit changes. Instead, these services will only be ...

In a world of complex threats and challenges, the Department of Defense has decided to tackle one of the gravest: a quintessential piece of American literature.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

In a memo sent to the Justice Department on Monday night, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department will largely stop bringing cases that violate the Bank Secrecy Act or contain unregis...

People have gone to prison for comparable schemes.

The cultural and information centers of Maine's communities stand to be hit hard by proposed federal funding cuts.

One USAID employee’s experience in Kinshasa as the agency was dismantled.

Cheeseheads and cheesecakes join the punchlines and headlines, and an enthusiastic audience gets a mild scolding for slipping past the censors. Temporarily.