Brace for a MAGA civil war, mayhem courtesy of Elon Musk and Democrats with more leverage than the Nov. 5 election might have ...

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A new Congress will be introduced in a matter of days, and a myriad of outgoing lawmakers have made their concerns and ...

The Everett Alvarez, Jr. Congressional Gold Medal Act, authored by Rep. Jimmy Panetta to honor the Salinas native and Vietnam ...

Social Security's 2025 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) bumped the average benefit from $1,927 per month to $1,976 per month.

Social Security began as a safeguard “against the hazards and vicissitudes of life,” said former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who on August 14, 1935, signed the ‘Social Security Act’ into law ...

Yellen, in a letter to House and Senate leaders, noted that the nation’s debt ceiling — the total amount of money the federal ...

The high court will hear TikTok's case in January, just before the ban is slated to go into effect. The US Supreme Court will take up TikTok's challenge of a law that if allowed to go into effect ...

President Joe Biden signed legislation introduced by Senate Western Caucus Chair Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to designate the bald eagle as ...

Gensler, who once said that “everything but Bitcoin” falls under his agency’s purview, is on the way out. But what's next for ...

Federal judiciary leadership and some lawmakers are criticizing President Biden for vetoing a bill that would’ve added 66 new federal judgeships amid growing caseloads.

The Social Security Fairness Act, co-sponsored by Rep. Cuellar, aims to restore full benefits to public servants by repealing ...