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The Senate passed a six-month spending bill hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure.

The Education Department announced the new investigations Friday, one month after issuing a memo warning America’s schools and colleges that they could lose federal money.

Helicopters will be permanently restricted from flying near Washington, D.C.‘s airport on the same route where a passenger jet and an Army helicopter collided in midair, killing 67 people.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer relented Thursday rather than risking a government shutdown.

Debates over funding the federal government routinely erupt in deadline moments but this year it’s showing the political leverage of Republicans.

The case is among multiple lawsuits challenging the mass firings.

In a federal lawsuit filed Thursday in Massachusetts, 20 states and Washington, D.C., say the layoffs are so severe that the department “can no longer function, and cannot comply with its statutory requirements.”

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a series of actions Wednesday to roll back landmark environmental regulations, including rules on pollution from coal-fired power plants, climate change and electric vehicles.

Investigators continue to search for a college student from Virginia who vanished earlier this month while visiting the Dominican Republic.

The European Union on Wednesday announced retaliatory trade action with new duties on U.S. industrial and farm products.

President Donald Trump’s spate of tax increases on imports and plans for more have roiled the stock market and stirred up recession risks.

The Education Department plans to lay off over 1,300 of its more than 4,000 employees as part of a reorganization.

Federal investigators looking for the cause of the January collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people recommended a ban on some helicopter flights Tuesday to improve safety, saying the current setup “poses an intolerable risk.”

Like many other colleges last spring, Hopkins grappled with balancing free speech and campus safety after students organized a pro-Palestinian demonstration.

Makary is considered one of Trump’s more conventional health nominees and is widely expected to be confirmed.

Five people were onboard the single-engine plane that crashed and burst into flames in a parking lot near a small airport.

The mass email went to a “broad population of HHS employees,” landing in their inboxes days before agency heads are due to offer plans for shrinking their workforces.

A 40-day boycott of Target that calls for supporters to give up shopping at the company’s stores during the Lenten period began this week.

Pope Francis continued his recovery from double pneumonia Saturday as the Vatican machinery and Holy Year celebrations marched on without him, this weekend dedicated to the Catholic Church’s volunteers.

A group of labor unions is asking a federal court for an emergency order to stop Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the sensitive Social Security data of millions of Americans.