The United States has used the bald eagle as a national symbol since George Washington was president. But it only became the national bird this week, and only after a Minnesota man caught the ...

A bill sparked by a dangerous hazing incident that left a Minnesota native with permanent brain injuries was signed into law by President Joe Biden this week that will require colleges and ...

Social Security began as a safeguard “against the hazards and vicissitudes of life,” said former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who on August 14, 1935, signed the ‘Social Security Act’ into law ...

Congress has passed a bill that would allow public workers who receive a pension to also collect social security benefits.

President Joe Biden signed legislation introduced by Senate Western Caucus Chair Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to designate the bald eagle as ...

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Gensler, who once said that “everything but Bitcoin” falls under his agency’s purview, is on the way out. But what's next for ...

With Mike Johnson’s speakership in peril, lawmakers worry the House won’t be able to certify Donald Trump’s re-election victory.

Federal judiciary leadership and some lawmakers are criticizing President Biden for vetoing a bill that would’ve added 66 new federal judgeships amid growing caseloads.

The Social Security Fairness Act, co-sponsored by Rep. Cuellar, aims to restore full benefits to public servants by repealing ...

A steering committee is now forming, and a leader is being sought, to meet the requirements of a bill passed last summer to ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Dec. 23 The Washington Post on President Biden's commutation of death sentences ...