Alan K. Simpson, a Wyoming Republican who served three controversy-rich terms in the U.S. Senate - a tenure animated by a ...

When Congress pushed ahead last year with adding 10 new daily flights to Washington D.C.’s Reagan National Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration had data showing an unnerving number of near mis ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s failure to install a fellow vaccine critic to a key government post is testing the limits of how far the US health secretary can go to promote his public-health agenda.

The low-drama South Dakotan has arrived at the apex of power in the Senate just as Donald Trump is exerting his own executive authority. Will Thune draw a line?

It’s too soon to know whether we will come to regard demands for fossil divestment or “justice for Palestine” as righteous ...

The White House has withdrawn the nomination of David Weldon, a former Florida congressman, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Senate health committee announced Thursday ...

Robinson was denied a US visa in 2018, but counter-extremism experts believe support from within the Trump administration ...

How Harvard University is gearing up to fend off President Trump's threat to slash its federal funding.

The recent upheaval at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, following President Donald Trump's ...

A guide to Boston's Irish Heritage Trail and a look at the five new stops being added along the 2.8-mile trail this summer.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's former opponent in the 2024 election, was officially sworn in as Secretary of ...