On the first day of the federal government shutdown, the Trump administration froze "roughly $18 billion" in infrastructure ...

Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement ...

Trump's pick to lead the agency tracking unemployment and inflation has withdrawn after withering criticism from across the ...

The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused ...

The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked President Trump's attempt to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, a move that ...

A new report says that the number of books being challenged or removed from public schools across the country has risen ...

The Trump administration has deployed or threatened to deploy National Guard troops in more than half a dozen American cities ...

Government shutdowns lasting more than a few days were relatively rare — until recently. The 2018-2019 shutdown was the longest in U.S. history, stretching on for five weeks.

Eight months after the Department of Government Efficiency effort to shrink the federal workforce began, some agencies are ...

Republican officials are pushing for more voting restrictions on U.S. citizens who were born abroad and have never lived in ...

It started in the 1960s, when two couples told a harrowing story about being chased by a large flying creature on a rural ...

China's ride-hailing car drivers work long hours to get enough fares, and often live in their cars. Companies and passengers ...