Newark Mayor Ras Baraka walks past ICE agents standing near a gate to Delaney Hall during a protest near the facility on May 7, 2025. A...

A protester holds a sign in support of funding for public media during a May 1, 2025, rally at the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka as part of a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is on track to run out of money to pay its bills as early as August without congressional action, Treasury Secret...

Then-Cardinal Robert Prevost speaks at St. Jude Catholic Church in New Lenox, Illinois, on Aug. 7, 2024.

The government will exhaust resources to pay its bills in August, but Congress will be gone nearly all of that month.

The announcement raises the stakes for Republicans, who are tying a $5 trillion debt limit increase to a legislative package.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday called on Congress to raise the nation’s debt ceiling by mid-July to keep the federal government...

Alina Habba and federal officials accuse the Democratic mayor of trespassing

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - Antisemitic behavior, any act that could be perceived as hatred toward Jews, was condemned by the Board of Directo...

Carla Hayden was the first woman and first non-white person to lead the Library of Congress

Gerry Adams had a reputation of “seriousness and dependability”, a US congressmen who worked with President Bill Clinton on the peace proces...

By SEUNG MIN KIM, LISA MASCARO and ZEKE MILLERWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as...

Hayden, who became the first woman and the first African American to serve as the Librarian of Congress when she was appointed in 2016, was...

Dr. Carla Hayden, nominee of former President Barack Obama, was the first woman and Black congressional librarian.

Hayden, whose 10-year term was set to expire next year, had come under backlash from a conservative advocacy group.