WASHINGTON (AP) — The threat of a government shutdown has become a recurring event in Washington, though most of the time ...

In Lighthiser v. Trump, 22 young people are asking a federal court to declare executive orders that “unleash” fossil fuels ...

As far as sticker price goes, the recommended vaccines for kids in the United States do not come cheap. The hepatitis-B shot, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees at once, voting for the first time under ...

The campus will lose almost half its part-time guides, even though nearly 2,200 Washington students were on the waitlist for tours last school year.

A federal appeals court ordered Shira Perlmutter reinstated Wednesday as the register of copyrights at the Library of Congress, as she challenges her firing in the Trump administration’s effort to ...

There may be no greater convert to the dubious virtues of unlimited executive power than a former skeptic who has taken up residence in the White House. President Donald Trump, once a critic of the ...

Teachers have taught through two impeachments, several contentious presidential elections, the rise in online misinformation, a pandemic, a racial reckoning that launched nationwide protest movements, ...

In April, the fight over a Long Island school district’s mascot caught the attention of President Donald Trump. The Massapequa district had refused to abandon its “Chiefs” logo under a New York state ...

Social studies class teaches government has three branches. Legislatures make laws. Presidents and governors enforce laws. Courts interpret laws when there’s conflict applying them. We believe checks ...

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett spoke to CBS News' Norah O'Donnell about the highest court's independence from the other branches of government, which she discusses in her new book "Listening ...

Kathie Mason leads her team of volunteers as they put boxes of food into cars for the Healthy Kids Iowa monthly food distribution in Ottumwa. Volunteers moved between stacks of boxes at a school in ...