Politics

The Senate will try to pass a short-term, bipartisan bill this weekend to keep the government funded.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy urged House Republicans to rally behind a strategy to fund the government, cut spending and bolster border security. A band of conservatives rejected it.

Scott Hall is the first person to plead guilty in the 19 defendant case.

Democrats say a handful of "missing in action" Republicans can join their "discharge petition" to end-run Speaker McCarthy and force a vote on a short-term funding bill.

Federal workers tend to be more educated, better paid and more Black than the general U.S. workforce.

The president began his remarks with a tribute to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, whose office announced Friday that she had died at the age of 90.

The senator, who died Thursday night, was motivated and haunted by the 1978 assassinations of Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone.

Christopher Worrell, a Florida Proud Boy, was added to the FBI Wanted list after he fled just ahead of his scheduled sentencing last month. He was convicted in May.

Haley and DeSantis’ teams will go head-to-head for support at an upcoming donor conference, following their clash at Wednesday’s debate and Haley’s rising polling.

The court rejected a challenge by families of transgender children who had argued that the bans discriminated on the basis of sex.

Texas and Florida both enacted laws that would place new restrictions on the ability of social media companies to decide what user content they wish to publish.