President Donald Trump announced Friday that he commuted the prison sentence of former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y.

A federal judge in California indicated she would expand her temporary ruling blocking federal worker layoffs during the government shutdown.

California Rep. Jackie Speier wants House Speaker Paul D. Ryan to force Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold to repay an $84,000 sexual harassment settlement. In a letter to Ryan last week obtained by HuffPost ...

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The administration in court filings said it was holding off firing thousands of federal workers to comply with a temporary restraining order.

Trump’s latest budget maneuver — paying military salaries out of unrelated research funding — makes lawmakers’ appropriations authority practically irrelevant, critics argue.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area.

To stop the cheating, Trump imposed Section 232 tariffs on foreign aluminum and steel imports during his first term in office. But after the 2020 election, Canadian aluminum imports skyrocketed under ...

FactCheck.org looks into Democratic and Republican finger-pointing regarding the shutdown and a key federal nutrition program.

With the government shutdown entering its third week, congressional action mostly consisted of dueling leadership news conferences this week.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., a Trump ally who leads the Senate Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, deferred to ...

Nearly 42 million people could be left without monthly food benefits if the federal government doesn't reopen before funding runs out.