WASHINGTON (AP) — A deadline looming, Congress charged Monday toward a federal government shutdown as Republicans brush back Democratic demands to save health care funding from cutbacks, while ...

Oktoberfest. It’s a sloppy soup of locals and tourists swaying beer steins and toasting to “Gemütlichkeit,” the cozy and convivial atmosphere.

NEW YORK (AP) — Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen stood before Iowa Democrats over the weekend and blasted his party’s leadership as “spineless” for refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic ...

There’s a slice of mountain paradise hiding in southwestern Virginia that might just be the state’s best-kept secret. Grayson Highlands State Park in Mouth of Wilson offers an experience so unique and ...

Billings, Mont. (AP) — Young climate activists and their attorneys who won a landmark global warming trial against the state ...

After announcing that he was deploying the National Guard to Memphis, Trump was asked Monday why he signed an order lowering ...

TikTok users in the U.S. may get a reprieve from the threat of a shutdown after the Trump administration announced it has reached a framework deal with China for the ownership of the popular social ...

At a time when its leadership is in question and its mission challenged, the Library of Congress has named a new U.S. poet laureate, the much-honored author and translator Arthur Sze.

(The Center Square) - Virginia is the No. 1 state for teachers' pay and public spending per student. At the same time, it's No. 51 for students' math scores, behind 49 states and Washington, D.C.

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein on Monday requested $13.5 billion more from Congress in recovery aid for Hurricane Helene almost a year after the historic storm, saying additional help is needed ...

The murder of Charlie Kirk and a Denver-area high school shooting the same day had a common threat of online radicalization.

Democratic lawmakers are questioning whether a Boar’s Head deli meat plant at the center of last year’s deadly listeria ...