WASHINGTON - The US government entered a partial shutdown on Jan 31 as a midnight funding deadline passed without Congress approving a 2026 budget, though disruption was expected to be limited with the House set to move early next week to ratify a Senate-backed deal. The funding lapse followed a br»»»

US gov’t funding impasse driven by Democratic anger over federal agents killing two people during immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. United States senators have approved a last-minute deal to avert the worst impacts of an imminent government shutdown, after Democratic anger over the killing of t»»»

WASHINGTON — Republicans are projected to have won the majority in the US Senate, after flipping Senate seats in West Virginia and Ohio.Jim Justice, West Virginia's current governor, is projected to win the seat vacated by the former Democrat Joe Manchin, while Bernie Moreno in Ohio unseated Democr»»»

close Video "I regard myself as a wartime Speaker," declared House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. Only, we’re not sure if Johnson was referring to the internecine war among Republicans over whether he should keep his job. Many members wear pocket squares with their suits. But not Rep. Thomas Massie, R»»»

Lawmakers are open to honoring an 1875 treaty, but intertribal disagreement raises the question of who will be represented. Tori Holland’s family is split. Her husband and her children are enrolled citizens of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. She belongs to a different, much smaller federally recog»»»