Saturday on PBS News Weekend, as the government shutdown begins a new month, tens of millions of low-income Americans who ...

President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster, so that the Republican majority can bypass Democrats ...

The Senate passed a resolution Thursday that would undo many of President Donald Trump’s tariffs around the globe, the latest ...

The speaker has kept the House out of legislative session for more than a month, a remarkable closure preventing other ...

A cut Wednesday would be the second this year and could benefit consumers by bringing down borrowing costs for mortgages and ...

The building strain on lawmakers to end the impasse was exemplified by the nation's largest federal employee union calling on Congress to immediately pass a funding bill and end the shutdown.

The U.S. and China said they’ve agreed on a framework for a potential trade deal, once again trying to pull back from a trade ...

Hurricane Melissa is nearing landfall in Jamaica after strengthening to a Category 5 storm with sustained winds of 175 mph.

From Texas to North Carolina, from New England to the Midwest, communities are facing a growing threat from flash flooding.

In our news wrap Sunday, police made two arrests in connection to last week’s theft of crown jewels from the Louvre Museum, ...

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Kimberley Atkins Stohr of the Boston Globe join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week ...

President Trump took a step that he had not taken during his second term and imposed new sanctions on Russia. The Treasury Department announced the sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies and ...