The bipartisan Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 set statutory spending caps for defense and nondefense spending. Surpassing ...

William A. Read’s “Indian Place Names in Alabama” tells us that Tombigbee comes from Choctaw words meaning “box makers” or “coffin makers.” He follows the “coffin makers” line of thinking and reports ...

Speaker, Trump promote funding bill  Musk is ground zero for DOGE challenges Are courts the guardrails against “King” Trump?

What it does: The bill would allow for a judge to expunge someone's "red flag" record if a court determines the person to no longer be dangerous. Currently, if a person's weapons are seized and a ...

The Republican-controlled U.S. Congress looked set to move ahead this week to keep the government funded and avert a partial ...

There was shockingly low voter turnout for the 2025 Cook County races, even though local government has a greater impact on citizens than federal.

The wrangling over an extension of government dominates the agenda for both the House and the Senate this week.

Funding for the federal government runs out at the end of Friday, and the race is on for Congress to avoid a shutdown. In a ...

Palm, an organic farmer outside Belgrade, Montana, was relying on a $648,000 grant from USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service ...

Republicans may not have the votes to keep the government open ahead of a Friday shutdown deadline, despite the fact that ...

House Republicans unveiled a spending bill Saturday that would keep federal agencies funded through Sept. 30, pushing ahead with a go-it-alone strategy that seems certain to spark a major ...

Iowa lawmakers introduced more than 2,000 bills this legislative session, but only a few hundred made it past the latest ...