There are roughly 1,200 positions in the federal government that require Senate confirmation. The first cabinet official was ...

The fate of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet is still unclear after Republican senators spent much of December ...

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John Yoo, a former clerk for conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the former deputy assistant attorney ...

The Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act is designed to hold teenage treatment centers and care facilities accountable ...

After learning the U.S. doesn't officially recognize the bald eagle as its national bird, a Minnesota man swooped in and wrote a bill for Congress. This week, Biden signed it into law.

Activists have called for Biden to commute the sentence of many or all federal death row inmates for some time. More than 130 ...

After long being an unofficial symbol, the white head, yellow beak bald eagle became the official U.S. bird on Christmas Eve.

Finally, the Trump administration must hold Qatar accountable for corruption. U.S. authorities should investigate Qatar’s ...

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) insists the Senate can chart a bipartisan course on global challenges under President-elect ...