Virginia is the state with the second-highest number of federal employees, most of whom are expressing anxiety about being unemployed and losing what many saw as sinecures. In either event, pundits ...

Government shutdown deadlines — and even full-on shutdowns — aren’t new for Washington, but this time, with federal funding ...

President Trump’s fixation reinvigorated the debate over the role of the federal government in education, and created a ...

Students graduate from Oregon State University. U.S. Senate Democrats are demanding to know why applications for repayment ...

State law says that an office becomes vacant with the “incumbent’s ceasing to discharge the duty of the incumbent’s office for a period of 3 consecutive months, except when provided by sickness, when ...

The bill could also lead to detailed examination of fiscal transfers between the state of Texas and the federal government.

More than 100 people protested Elon Musk's federal cuts on Thursday outside the Tesla dealership near Bernalillo.

A Texan megachurch pastor who hosted fundraisers for Donald Trump—and served on Trump's evangelical advisory board—is indicted on child sex charges.

There once was a US president, JED Bartlet, who had a Nobel Prize in Economics. He, alas, was a fictional character in the ...

A shutdown would temporarily give the executive branch even broader powers over what government services are deemed "essential." ...

Johns Hopkins University said it is laying off more than 2,000 workers across the globe after the Trump administration cut $800 million in federal grants.

There sat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, at a Steak ’n Shake with Fox News host Sean Hannity, ...