A House committee voted Tuesday to pass a resolution that would allow members to pay for bulletproof vests and security personnel using taxpayer funds.

As of the latest reporting by the Treasury Department, the US gross national debt rose by $41.5 billion on Thursday, February 22, to a grand total of $20.8 trillion. Here’s the thing: On September 7, 2017, five-and-a-half months ago, just before Congress suspended the debt ceiling, the gross national debt stood at $19.8 trillion.

It was another crazy news week, so it's understandable if you missed a small but important announcement from the Treasury Department: The federal government is on track to borrow nearly $1 trillion this fiscal year — President Donald Trump's first full year in charge of the budget. That's almost double what the government borrowed in fiscal year 2017.

The federal government is on track to borrow nearly $1 trillion this fiscal year — President Donald Trump's first full year in charge of the budget.

A shutdown complicates the lives of federal workers and the millions of Americans who rely on them.

What do we do if the American president is senile, unhinged, dangerously impulsive, divorced from reality, suffering from short-term memory loss, likely to start a nuclear war and therefore dangero…

Sen. Dianne Feinstein released the transcript from Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

When the Supreme Court decided, in the 1954 case of Brown vs. Board of Education, that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, Tennessee-born ...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is taking aim at legalized marijuana, according to an AP report.

The legal pushback to President Trump's travel ban is part of a growing number of legal challenges in recent years to the expansion of presidential power.

When Trump’s political appointees arrived at the U.S.D.A., career employees were shocked by their new bosses’ lack of qualifications. Michael Lewis explores why Americans need to care.

Lawmakers in both parties say members of Congress shouldn't be allowed to use taxpayer money to settle harassment claims without being named.

Comcast revenue could take a big hit in two cities that might build networks.

The information we have available suggests the new Republican tax proposal would raise income taxes on a significant amount of upper middle-class families.

The decision about whether to opt-out of Proposition 108 and cancel the June 2018 primaries for Congress, the governor’s office and other positions is reminiscent of when the Colorado GOP vot…

National Butterfly Center staff discovered workers with chainsaws on the center's private sanctuary clearing the way for Trump’s border wall in South Texas.

U.S. regulators on Friday warned a New York fertility doctor to stop marketing an experimental procedure that uses DNA from three people — a mother, a father and an egg donor — to avoid certain genetic diseases. The doctor, John Zhang, used the technique to help a Jordanian couple have a...

The decision to remove Mr. Scaramucci came at request of the new chief of staff, John Kelly, sources said.

The most outspoken member of the Supreme Court avoided talking about President Trump, a subject that caused her grief last year, but remained candid in discussing the court.

The chief executive for PBS is sounding the alarm about public broadcasting's future if federal funding is axed as called for by President Donald Trump.