Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), senior appropriators, are seen during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill Feb. 19, 2025.

Also, hundreds of people, including Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, gathered in Red Bank for an International Women's Day march: ...

After flipping three seats in the state Legislature last fall and increasing President Donald Trump’s vote share in nearly ...

A six-month stopgap funding bill cleared the Senate on Friday after enough Democrats crossed the aisle to vote to end debate.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) took up consideration of a measure in 2022 to shift to a watered-down “talking ...

Donald Trump just convinced dozens of Republican hardliners to do what House speakers from John Boehner to Kevin McCarthy could not: Walk the plank on one of Washington’s dreaded short-term spending ...

Senate Democrats face difficult question of whether to oppose the Republican spending plan or risk forcing a federal government shutdown.

"Every move, every party affiliation change … and these women would be ... "It's going to put a heavy burden on localities ...

Biggs has never shied from votes that made GOP leadership wince, but didn't do so as the House needed every vote to avoid a ...

Republicans’ stopgap spending legislation managed to win over conservative lawmakers who have long opposed such measures — ...