Alison Krauss & Union Station have announced a new album. Arcadia is the singer and fiddler’s first record with her band in ...

The U.S. Congress is getting younger – on the whole, at least – according to a Pew Research Center analysis of representatives and senators in the new 119th Congress. The median age of voting members ...

But he has less authority over Republicans in Congress, who have a pivotal role in advancing his agenda. The Senate, for instance, must approve his choices for more than 1,000 jobs, including all ...

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is responsible for the Pentagon neglecting to tell Congress and the White House that the former Army general was incapacitated last year due to ...

After details of a new ceasefire-for-hostages deal was announced on Thursday, and with both sides seemingly trying to make last-minute improvements, it is imperative that the new Congress wield ...

CLIMATEWIRE | More than 50,000 scientists and their supporters have signed an open letter asking Congress to safeguard federal research and scientific jobs ahead of the incoming Trump administration.

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The budget has to be negotiated with Congress, of course. Day to day, the secretary is holding meetings with people who are charged with managing different aspects of the department’s activity.

The 119th session of Congress is officially in full swing and members have already gotten to work on their lengthy to-do list. This session will last until 2027 and is predicted to have a jam ...

Congress is ready to put up a fight. Republican and Democratic lawmakers, who control NASA’s purse strings, want Americans to return to the lunar surface in 2027 — and they’re not willing to ...