Ahead of critical vote on a bill to fund the government, Democrats accused Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of "capitulating" to the GOP after the New York Democrat announced he'll back a Republican measure that scales back domestic spending for the remainder of 2024.

Enough Senate Democrats put their disdain for President Trump aside and voted Friday to end a filibuster of a Republican stopgap spending bill to stop a government shutdown at midnight.

A long-running legislative push to permanently put illicit fentanyl and its chemical cousins on the most restrictive list of U.S. drugs could reach President Trump's desk before the end of March.

The IRS announced a "strategic pause" on its technology upgrades Friday, saying it wants to review all its systems to see what should be allowed to continue -- including the popular Direct File program.

President Trump has long admired Tiger Woods. Now the golfing star could someday become part of the president's extended family.

An Indian citizen who participated in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University has self-deported, the Department of Homeland Security announced.

Hamas rejected a new deal to extend the ceasefire in Gaza by several weeks in exchange for Hamas releasing five living and 10 dead hostages, said U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff.

As with fears over the expansion of artificial intelligence, human choice holds a primary role in tensions surrounding the regulation of in vitro fertilization. A certain pessimism motivates both. Earlier this month, Texas state Rep. Daniel Alders introduced legislation to advance reporting requirements on IVF. Reports from the provider would cover a range of technicalities […]

A federal judge on Friday declined to grant temporary injunctive relief to plaintiffs in two lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to detain migrants at Guantánamo Bay. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said the plaintiffs — in one lawsuit, a coalition of migrant family members and immigrant legal services organizations, and in the other, 10 migrants...

Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) were blocked Friday from passing a package of health policies, including changes to the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry that was left out of December’s government spending bill.  Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, attempted to pass the bipartisan legislation by unanimous consent. It...