Nor is McConnell the only pending retirement by a senator who was a freshman member of Congress during President Ronald ...

About $300 billion in funding for the SNAP program would be eliminated under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on June 18, 2025, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) presses Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll and Chief of Staff of the Army Randy George on potential US ...

ILLINOIS - President Donald Trump’s so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" is encountering resistance in the Senate. Some Republicans oppose proposed cuts to programs like Medicaid, while others say the bill ...

ST. LOUIS, Missouri — As Congress debates sweeping changes to the country’s largest public health insurance program, Missouri ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly six months after Joe Biden left the White House, Senate Republicans are still scrutinizing his ...

President Donald Trump’s strategy hinges on the belief that financial resources translate to political power and he plans to ...

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee zeroed in on former President Joe Biden’s mental capacity during his presidency ...

The defense secretary said, in so many words, that we cannot count on the Pentagon's compliance with a federal court order.

President Donald Trump recently called for a special prosecutor to look into his false claims that the 2020 election was ...

A recent House hearing over immigration policy turned into a political brawl — and quite possibly a preview of 2026 elections in Illinois. The big picture: Downstate Rep. Mary Miller is emerging as ...

Los Angeles is under military occupation. The Middle East is blowing itself to bits. But the autopen is getting all the ...