House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is moving forward with a "clean" stopgap spending bill that ditches border policy and spending cuts, saying he tried and failed to rally his Republicans to pass a hyper-conservative version to keep the government open.

The Democrats' fragile majority in the U.S. Senate puts extra pressure on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to quickly pick a replacement for Sen. Dianne Feinstein following her death, a fraught decision for a two-term governor with national ambitions of his own.

Dianne Feinstein once stood at the center of a pivotal moment in LGBTQ+ history. Decades later, in death, she's being lauded by LGBTQ+ leaders as a longtime ally who, if she didn't always initially do the right thing, was able to learn and evolve.

When Washington Sen. Patty Murray received a call early Friday morning that Sen. Dianne Feinstein had died, she immediately started calling her fellow female senators.

Democratic strategist James Carville demeaned Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as a “bowl of Jell-O” amid a government spending fight which has seen him feud more with his own party than Democrats. “You know, when you elect a bowl of Jell-O, what you get is a bowl of Jell-O,” Carville said in an MSNBC interview Friday....

Congress has less than a day to find a way to fund the government and a shutdown is looking likely. House Republicans are meeting Saturday morning to find a way forward after conservatives voted down a proposed short-term solution Friday, leading to finger-pointing and frustration within the conference. The Senate is set to vote at...

House Republicans plan to vote Saturday on a 45-day “clean” stopgap funding bill that includes money for disaster relief, multiple lawmakers said. It will not have border policy changes, a non-starter for Democrats, or funds for Ukraine that some Republicans opposed. "We will put a clean funding stopgap on the floor to keep government open...

Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) weighed in on the government shutdown drama between conservatives and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). Hours after McCarthy’s bill to avert a government shutdown was voted down by many Republicans, Walsh appeared on CNN. Walsh said he thinks the drama has been fueled by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) hatred for the...

Providing easily available, free vaccines, tests and masks for everyone who wants them are steps toward "smartly" living with COVID-19 today and in the years to come.