Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, broke with his party on Thursday and said he would vote for a Republican-written bill to keep federal funding flowing past a midnight Friday ...

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Long before DOGE, there was the 1941 Truman Committee, the Reagan administration’s 1981 Grace Commission and Bill Clinton’s ...

Lt. Gov. Randy McNally pointed out he reprents not only Oak Ridge, but part of Knox County where there are failing schools.

Yesterday, the House passed legislation to fund the government through Sept. 30 and thereby avert a shutdown at the end of ...

President Donald Trump’s March 1 executive order designating English as the official language of the United States has ...

Mike Pence's nonprofit conservative activist group, Americans Advancing Freedom, sent a memo to House Judiciary Republican ...

When accounting for inflation, my fellow physicians and I are paid almost one-third less for seeing Medicare patients than we ...

Current law mandates patients with metastatic breast cancer must wait five months before earning any SSDI benefits.

O n March 14, Dr. Mehmet Oz will answer questions from members of the Senate Finance Committee in his confirmation hearing to ...

A Republican House resolution, which needs the Senate’s buy-in, directed a committee to propose ways to reduce the deficit by ...