Safe-haven gold surpassed $3,000 for the first time Friday, boosted by uncertainty over US President Donald Trump's tariffs, ...

U.S. stocks opened higher on Friday, with major indexes rebounding at the close of a rocky week. Investors cheered as Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he wouldn't oppose the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate finds itself on Friday in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has managed to do the impossible: unite almost the entire left (against him).

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, a political legend whose quick wit bridged partisan gaps in the years before today’s political acrimony, has died. He was 93.

The Senate has until midnight Friday to pass a bill to keep the government open. Meantime, President Donald Trump will deliver what the White House calls a law-and-order speech on Friday at the ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and House Democratic leadership are not changing their stance on the GOP-led ...

Alan Simpson’s three terms as Wyoming senator covered the Republican Party’s rejuvenation under Ronald Reagan.

Jimmy Fallon on Thursday addressed the potential government shutdown, turning his commentary into a burn of the Trump administration. (Watch the video below.) “Our government could stop functioning,” ...

Florida’s citrus growers are struggling to survive the one-two punch of hurricanes and disease. As production of the state’s ...

The U.S. Senate on Friday was poised to pass a stopgap spending bill and avert a partial government shutdown, after Democrats ...