As the 115th Congress comes to an end, hundreds of bills that lawmakers failed to approve over the last two years will be put to rest. While legislation is frequently reintroduced once the new session kicks off, it’s likely many of these bills will never again see the light of day.

There is a tendency for institutions that missed the warning signs before the last financial crisis to over-cook their doomsayer’s warnings as they consider the potential for another one. The International Monetary Fund leads a group of gloomy forecasters that worry about the stability of the global economy amid rising debt levels and slowing GDP growth. How long, they ask, can the expansion seen since the last crash go on before another recession hits?

More than 6 percent of the new Congress is Jewish, with 34 Jews among the total of 535 lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Jews make up 2 percent of the U.S. population, so Congress as a whole is more than thrice as Jewish as the country in general, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center on religion in the new Congress, which was inaugurated Thursday.

As the government shutdown enters its second week, the Environmental Protection Agency is set to run out of funds and join the list of agencies affected by the partial closure. The shutdown was precipitated by President Donald Trump’s insistence that he would only sign a Congressional spending bill that includes funds for a wall on the southern border of the US.

Congress has one last chance to undo the Federal Communication Commission’s 2017 repeal of net neutrality protections—but it only has until Dec. 21 to do it. The open-internet rules officially went off the books in June, but Democrats in Congress have been organizing since the end of last year to pass a Congressional Review Act resolution to undo the FCC’s repeal.

Congressional negotiators have reached an agreement to overhaul the system for handling accusations of sexual misconduct against members, including a requirement that members pay out of pocket for some settlements and court judgments. "For too long, victims of sexual harassment in Congress have been forced into a process that lacks transparency and accountability, and fails them at a time when they need the most support," said Sen. Amy Klobuchar...

It’s the first big move from Congress following the data exposure report

The Maine Republican announced her decision in a Senate floor speech Friday.

Last week, President Donald Trump ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to perform a renewed background check into Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh in the wake of Christine Blasey Ford's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Pulling from what we've seen over the years from other FBI files, here's some context on what that means.

The Air Force in fiscal 2019 will increase the maximum retention bonus airmen can get for re-enlisting to $100,000 as part of a major expansion of the program. The bonus was previously capped at $90,000, although not all airmen eligible for a selective re-enlistment bonus received the maximum amount.

Birtherism for everyone: Born and raised in Kansas, Gwyneth Barbara didn’t expect this kind of hassle.

Big news: Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman just became the first GOP House representative to announce he will sign the “discharge petition” to force a vote on the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution that would overturn the FCC’s disastrous repeal. The resolution already passed the Senate, and now that it has picked up bipartisan support in the House, we have a real chance of winning. Rep Coffman also introduced his own net neutrality legislation, which is largely symbolic, given that it will never reach the 60 votes it needs to pass the Senate.

The minority party needs some remedy when the majority leader is immune to considerations of fairness and consistency in his exercise of the Senate’s constitutional powers.

In the past decade, hundreds of local US newspapers have closed or merged. What happens to the communities they leave behind?

As Donald Trump looks to introduce a "pro-life" judge to the US Supreme Court, 100 Women looks at what will happen to abortion laws if Roe v Wade is overturned.

Mr. Pruitt, a former Oklahoma attorney general, had been hailed by conservatives for his zealous deregulation, but could not overcome the stain of ethics questions.

Gov. Ricardo Rossello said the island's unequal status is the cause for 5.4 million Puerto Ricans to currently reside in the continental U.S., a trend exacerbated by the damage inflicted in September by Hurricane Maria.

New internal FCC e-mails obtained via FOIA request show that yes, the FCC did routinely try to mislead the public and the press with repeated claims of DDOS attacks that never actually happened:

Are first-world children being trained for a third-world life? It was the strike heard ‘round the country.

A comment during supreme court arguments on ranked-choice voting offers a window into where many fear that things are headed - more legal challenges.