President Trump and Democratic congressional leaders ended their high-stakes meeting Monday without a plan for averting a government shutdown that will begin Wednesday morning.
The Trump administration will spend $625 million to modernize coal plants to keep them operating and open 13.1 million acres of federal land to coal mining.
Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is making life difficult for Democrats all over the U.S., but none more so than his fellow New Yorkers, who lead the party in Congress.
It was bad enough that fraudsters stole tens of billions of dollars in bogus pandemic-era unemployment benefits -- now it turns out states forgave much of that money without even trying to claw it back.
Twenty-one years is a long time to be in a job-training program. But that's just what New York's Department of Labor systems showed, according to a new inspector general's audit that found the state left thousands of people on its rolls well after they'd completed their federally funded training programs.
Republicans on the House Education and Workforce Committee are investigating the National Education Association for steering public school teachers to purchase retirement benefits that enriched the union.
President Trump said Monday that a peace deal to end Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza is
"beyond close" as he paints an optimistic picture of the chances to end the nearly two-year conflict.
In a call from the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhau on Monday expressed his "deep regret" to Qatar over the Doha air strike on Hamas leadership earlier this month that set back Middle East peace negotiations.
A Republican senator is pushing legislation that would end government shutdowns, as President Trump and Democrats again slammed their heads against the wall Monday in pursuit of a last-minute deal to fund federal operations.
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said Monday, ahead of a meeting with President Trump and GOP leaders, that his party will not agree to keep the government open without a solution that addresses rising health care costs.