The curtain has risen on the year of the United States’ 250th anniversary – and the stage is set for a critical year for the ...

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After the 2013 government shutdown ended, Republican leaders made clear they had only been humoring Sen. Ted Cruz and his plot to defund Obamacare. “It was not a smart play. It had no chance of ...

A voter casts their ballot at a polling station at Chesterbrook Elementary School in McLean, Virginia, on Nov. 4, 2025.Graeme Sloan—Bloomberg via Getty Images The last decade taught us painful lessons ...

More local officials than ever say in a new survey that political polarization is having a negative impact nationally, with those in larger communities seeing greater local effects — findings that ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is once more targeting former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, picking a political fight before next year’s elections that is reminiscent of ...

The 2026 political calendar is jam-packed with key races that could determine control of the governor’s office and Capitol ...

The federal government shutdown threatens to delay SNAP food aid for about 690,000 low-income Tennesseans, predominantly in rural areas. Republican state Sen. Paul Bailey, R-Sparta, is urging Gov.

The new year is shaping up to be a consequential one, from control of power in Washington to the agenda President Trump ...