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First-year North Carolina head football coach Bill Belichick talks with the media and addresses “outside noise” outside of football during a press conference at Chapel Hill on June 10, 2025 ...

MANILA, Philippines — A bill that seeks to extend the term of elected officials under the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) system has been approved by the House of Representatives on third ...

House lawmakers propose a bill requiring the NSA to develop an "AI security playbook" amid Chinese efforts to steal U.S. technology and information.

Bill Gates paid a secret visit to the White House on Friday to personally plead with Secretary of State Marco Rubio to reverse the cuts made to foreign aid, according to a report. REUTERS “With ...

In a 68-30 vote, the US Senate chose to advance the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins, or GENIUS Act, more than a month after it was introduced. Speaking from the ...

The bill may still be revised by the Senate before it moves to a final vote. But it is a picture of how President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans want to reshape U.S. energy policy.

Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' cracks down on Biden's student loan 'scheme,' top Republican says Senate HELP Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy speaks with Fox News Digital about his portion of Trump ...

The bill, dubbed the “Higher Wages for American Workers Act,” would raise the minimum wage starting in January 2026 and allow it to increase on the basis of inflation in subsequent years.

The Senate voted Wednesday to advance legislation setting up a regulatory framework for payment stablecoins, bringing the crypto bill one step closer to a final vote in the upper chamber. Eig… ...

Bill Gates is making an eleventh-hour push for the U.S. to rethink its sweeping foreign aid cuts as the Trump administration moves to win congressional approval for its DOGE savings.

Six Nobel laureate economists say GOP-backed "big beautiful bill" will hurt millions of Americans and weaken the U.S. economy.