Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A standing David Osborne. Kentucky House Speaker David Osborne, R-Prospect, looks over the chamber. (Kentucky Lantern photo by ...

The power of the Executive Branch is vested in the President of the United States, who also acts as head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. The President is responsible for ...

President Trump has pushed to expand the power of the chief executive to new heights throughout 2025, setting up legal battles carrying into next year. Trump has pushed to consolidate executive power ...

The Supreme Court grappled on Monday with which branch’s powers independent executive agencies exert, as the justices weighed whether President Donald Trump may fire a Democrat-appointed member of the ...

Hans von Spakovsky is the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is the ...

I’m fairly sure the Founding Fathers did not have in mind that it is within the executive branch’s rights or powers to call for the trial and execution of members of the legislative branch when a ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Now that the government is reopening, people who rely on SNAP benefits should be seeing them again soon — but the immediate need for food assistance remains high. Local churches and ...

The Supreme Court seems likely to embrace "unitary executive" theory (UET) in its upcoming case in Trump v. Slaughter, at least in so far as that theory mandates that the president have the power to ...

Leadership transitions are pivotal moments. A CEO’s first 100 days in a role are exhaustively studied; the last 100 days far less so, despite the steep costs of poor exits and the compounding benefits ...

Nikole Killion is a CBS News congressional correspondent based in Washington D.C., who has covered some of the biggest stories on Capitol Hill since 2021. Killion has also served a key role in CBS ...

The Trump administration will ask Congress for $58 million in security funding for the executive and judicial branches following the Sept. 10 assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University.