Donald Trump wants his incoming party leadership to agree to recess appointments even though Republicans control the Senate.

Democrats who control the Illinois General Assembly return to Springfield this week facing an agenda that now includes ...

Congress has a short but important to-do list as lawmakers return to Washington this coming week for what is known as a ...

Congress returns to a changed Washington. Lawmakers are back in town this week for the start of what's called the “lame duck, ...

Control over the U.S. House of Representatives still hangs in the balance, teetering between a Republican or Democratic ...

Trump urged Senate Republican leadership candidates to allow appointees to be chosen while Congress is out of session and ...

Bald eagle lovers are flying high as Congress heads into its lame-duck session, with the potential of House action on a bill ...

Republicans appear close to securing sweeping power in the US government, inching toward retaining the House majority as Congress returns for its lame-duck session this week.

Universities are decrying President-elect Donald Trump’s victory and offering a swath of therapeutic safe-space activities to ...

Donald Trump’s re-election comes as the world is on track to set yet another record hot year, and has been lurching from one disaster to the other – droughts, hurricanes, floods and wildfires. Experts ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s ag transition team is ramping up efforts ... however has been telling people she wants to get a farm bill deal done in the lame duck so it’s off lawmakers’ plate next ...