As the U.S. headed for a government shutdown, Republicans repeatedly accused Democrats of forcing the closure because they want to give health care access to immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

In 2013, then-businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump shared his vision on Fox News about the role a president should play in a shutdown: "You have to be nice and be angry and be wild and cajole ...

"Rest in peace, Charlie Kirk!" a voice that sounded somewhat like Adele’s sang out over a video showing Kirk with his young daughter. "The angels sing your name. Your story’s written in the stars, a ...

Washington, D.C., that focuses on family economic security and discrimination against women and mothers. It supports legislation that would require paid parental leave.

Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, of Burton, Michigan, was a former U.S. Marine and Iraq War veteran. His Sept. 28 ambush on the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints church in Grand Blanc Township left four ...

Trump says FBI agents may have been Jan. 6 agitators. Investigations don’t support that. A report that says 274 FBI agents responded to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol isn’t proof the ...

A Century Foundation analysis found that the increase in out-of-pocket costs for Affordable Care Act insurance wouldn’t be twice as big for rural enrollees, which is one way to interpret Klobuchar’s ...

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Yesli Vega, a Prince William County supervisor, is the 2022 Republican nominee for Virginia's 7th Congressional District Seat. She is running against incumbent Democrat Abigail Spanburger. Vega was ...

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Tracking Trump’s first-term campaign promises: The Trump-O-Meter is PolitiFact's meter for tracking 102 promises President Trump made during his 2016 campaign. We are tracking Trump's second-term ...

Trump has proposed severe cuts to medical research at the National Institutes of Health and other agencies, including caps on indirect costs for grantees’ labs, terminated grant funding and staff ...