Exclusive: Smithsonian Museums in Washington DC will remain open until Monday 6 October, but no certainty after that ...

Following years of strife and multiple leadership changes, will these important institutions meet the rigorous standards set by the American Alliance of Museums?

Cuts to NPR, PBS and other public media outlets have been in the news all year long, but now the federal funds have actually ...

Will AI fulfill the promise of American democracy, or will it create the kind of concentrated power that the Constitution was designed to prevent?

A bitter deadlock between President Trump and Democrats in Congress over federal spending is expected to disrupt services and ...

A group of retired judges said Trump "continues to corruptly abuse the power of his office" by directing the Justice ...

Opposition parties, the judiciary, the press, and civil-society groups aren’t destroyed, but over time they lose their life, ...

One letter argues Florida's immigrant detention centers are wasteful and mismanaged. Another writer suggests "Identity Fusion ...

October 6 is the first Monday of the month. It is the traditional start of the U.S. Supreme Court term. It is also the twentieth year with John Roberts as Chief Justice. While American democracy faces ...

Earlier this summer, representatives from the United States and China sat down to negotiate an off-ramp to the ongoing trade war between the two great powers. And while the results of these talks ...

The federal government shut down began at midnight on Oct. 1 as President Trump and Democrats blamed each for failing to reach an agreement.

As of 9 p.m. in California, the federal government plunged into a shutdown after proposed spending bills failed to pass.