President-elect Donald Trump is setting the stage for his presidency after Congress narrowly avoided a federal government shutdown this week. Follow for live updates.

More snow is expected in the Northeast and Great Lakes region. Baseball’s greatest base stealer dies. And Blake Lively sues “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni.

United States President Joe Biden signed into law on Saturday a bill that averts a government shutdown, ending days of ...

After days of threats and demands, Donald Trump had little to show for it once lawmakers passed a budget deal in the early ...

The drag-out fight over government spending has highlighted how House Republicans — for all the ideological divisions between ...

The city’s firefighter unions slammed Sunday a decision by lawmakers two days earlier to strip vital health care funds for ...

Donald Trump suggested Sunday that his new administration could try to regain control of the Panama Canal that the United ...

The U.S. relinquished control of the waterway to Panama in 1999 under a treaty signed in 1977 under President Jimmy Carter.

Houston police are investigating how a dead body wound up in the backseat of one of its patrol cars over the weekend, ...