The Senate has passed about $9 billion in federal spending cuts requested by President Donald Trump, including deep ...

Brazil's Congress passed legislation on Thursday loosening environmental licensing, a potential blow to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as he seeks to burnish his country's green credentials ...

The Senate overnight approved the White House’s $9 billion package of spending cuts to foreign aid programs and public broadcasting. The 51-48 vote on what’s known as a rescissions package ...

Civil rights activist and Georgia Congressman John Lewis was known for saying he got into "good trouble" by using peaceful, ...

More than two dozen Republican attorneys general urged Congress to pass the bill, calling it "vital" to addressing the opioid ...

A bill to cut spending on foreign aid and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting passed the Senate early Thursday. The bill ...

The researchers’ method was straightforward enough. The Congressional Budget Office ( CBO) estimated the impact of the bill ...

Congress might have the power of the purse, but in a vote on a rescissions package, GOP members surrendered their authority ...

The $1 billion cut would strip two years of federal support from NPR, PBS and more than 1,500 local stations, many of which could go dark ...

The measure, proposed by Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California, was rejected on the House floor Tuesday in a party-line vote of 211-210. All Republicans present — including the members of Utah’s all ...

President Donald Trump has signed a bill into law that will permanently ban analogues of fentanyl—though it also contains ...