As a federal judge presses President Donald Trump's administration over whether it violated an order halting deportations, in ...

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The National Archives has released thousands of pages of declassified records related to the assassination of President John ...

Is inequality back as a political issue? Senator Bernie Sanders seems to think so. He is leading a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer defends his vote with Republicans to keep the government open and his position as leader ...

More than 24,000 federal probationary employees who worked across 18 agencies were fired as part of President Trump's efforts to reduce the size of government.

President Donald Trump says files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy will be released Tuesday.

The federal judge ordered the government to reinstate U.S. Agency for International Development systems, saying DOGE likely violated the constitution in multiple ways.

But they also fear the consequences of shutting down the government, both real and political. More: When will the Senate vote on the spending bill? Will it need Democratic support? "If we vote to ...

WASHINGTON – Ten Senate Democrats joined with most of their GOP colleagues on Friday to advance a government funding bill, averting a partial shutdown of major federal services beginning at ...

Conservatives have long talked about cutting government, but Republicans in Congress have shied away from approving deep ...

MPR News host Tom Crann talks with Shannon Watson, from Majority in the Middle, about how a tie in the Minnesota House could ...