Presidents Day is around the corner, and that means many stores and businesses may be closed or have different hours to celebrate the federal holiday.

Historically, passenger rail funding has had legislative champions from each party in the House and Senate that successfully ...

NPR was built, in part, to explain the U.S. government to its citizens. It does much more than that, but as a Washington, D.C ...

A small group of judges trying to hamstring President Donald Trump's government efficiency agenda have a history of liberal judicial activism.

Democratic allies and even some Republicans lobbied for the Trump administration to keep Barron in place, citing the state’s ...

President Donald Trump got his two former progressive Democratic Cabinet picks confirmed with little Republican dissent this week despite early predictions that they would have trouble getting through ...

As the longest-serving Senate leader in history, McConnell developed a reputation for keeping his rank-and-file members in line and frustrating Democrats by relentlessly using procedural tactics to ...

Western Washington U.S. Attorney Tessa Gorman was terminated this week amid reports of a purge of top federal prosecutors by ...

Washington can't access $162 million in federal money due to the whipsaw nature of Trump's executive orders, Gov. Bob ...

Trump Says He Will Rework Global Trading Relations With ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs President Trump signed a memorandum ordering his advisers to calculate new tariff levels for other countries, a ...

Professors of Political Science Gerald Gamm and Thad Kousser, University of Rochester and University of California San Diego, respectively, claim that states with competitive party systems spend more ...