[ad_1] By Karen Pierog and Dave McKinney | CHICAGO CHICAGO Illinois’ first full-year budget since 2015 became law on Thursday after the House of Representatives overrode the governor’s vetoes of a $36 billion fiscal 2018…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday that Congress must act to shore up private health insurance markets if it fails to repeal Obamacare, comments seen as providing a pathway to…

[ad_1] LJUBLJANA Slovenian President Borut Pahor, attending a meeting of EU leaders with Donald Trump in Warsaw, has invited the U.S. president to visit Slovenia and Trump has accepted the invitation, Pahor’s cabinet said in…

[ad_1] By Noel Randewich | MEXICO CITY MEXICO CITY A meeting between Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday at the G20 summit in Germany will last about 30 minutes…

[ad_1] By Dave McKinney and Karen Pierog | CHICAGO CHICAGO Even if Illinois’ House of Representatives takes action to enact a new budget on Thursday, the state still risks a downgrade in its credit rating…

[ad_1] By Valerie Volcovici | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The Trump administration will soon begin a review that will question the veracity of the climate change science used by President Barack Obama’s administration as the basis for…

[ad_1] By Dave McKinney and Karen Pierog | CHICAGO CHICAGO The fate of a spending plan and tax hike aimed at ending Illinois’ unprecedented two-year budget impasse moved on Tuesday to the Democratic-controlled House of…

[ad_1] KABUL A bipartisan delegation of U.S. senators visiting Afghanistan on Tuesday called for a new strategy from the Trump administration to turn the tide against an increasingly strong Taliban insurgency and end the longest…

[ad_1] By Roberta Rampton | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON During his presidential campaign, Republican Donald Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “strong leader” with whom he’d like to reset tense U.S.-Russian relations. But as Trump…

[ad_1] By Mica Rosenberg | NEW YORK NEW YORK The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump opposed opening the door to grandparents from six Muslim-majority countries on Monday, arguing in a court filing that the…

[ad_1] By Elinor Comlay | ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie brushed off criticism on Monday after he was caught on camera taking a break from dealing with a government…

[ad_1] BRIDGEWATER, N.J. U.S. President Donald Trump spoke separately to the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar on Sunday to discuss his “concerns about the ongoing dispute” between Qatar and its Gulf and…

[ad_1] By Dave McKinney and Karen Pierog | CHICAGO CHICAGO Illinois’ Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed big, permanent income-tax rate increases on Sunday with the help of some Republican votes as the cash-strapped state scrambled…

[ad_1] By Jeff Mason | BRIDGEWATER, N.J. BRIDGEWATER, N.J. President Donald Trump stepped up his feud with the media on Sunday by tweeting a mock video of himself tackling and repeatedly striking a man with…

[ad_1] President Donald Trump will speak by phone on Sunday with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping, the White House said on Saturday. The White House, which announced the calls in…

[ad_1] By Dave McKinney | CHICAGO CHICAGO Risking a historic drop to junk bond status, Illinois began its third straight fiscal year without a budget on Saturday as political maneuvering dimmed hopes for a bipartisan…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON President Donald Trump lashed out on Saturday at the growing number of states refusing to give voters’ names, addresses and sensitive personal information to a commission he created to investigate alleged voter fraud.…

[ad_1] Part of the state government in Maine was shuttered on Saturday after lawmakers were unable to send a two-year budget to the liking of Republican Paul LePage, who promised the shutdown if he sent…

[ad_1] By David Brunnstrom and Lisa Lambert | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump called for a determined response to North Korea after talks with South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in on Friday where he stressed…

[ad_1] By Patricia Zengerle | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON President Donald Trump’s administration has dropped plans for an executive order that will require all U.S. food aid to be transported on American ships after members of Congress…

[ad_1] By Chris Kenning | CHICAGO CHICAGO A growing number of U.S. states refused on Friday to give voters’ names, addresses and sensitive personal information to a commission created by President Donald Trump to investigate…

[ad_1] By David Morgan | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Twenty moderate Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives warned on Friday that efforts to overhaul the federal tax code could be jeopardized by demands for including major…

[ad_1] U.S. President Donald Trump does not plan to invoke executive privilege as a way to block former FBI Director James Comey from testifying to Congress next week, the New York Times said on Friday…

[ad_1] By Idrees Ali and Lee Chyen Yee | SINGAPORE SINGAPORE The United States is encouraged by China’s efforts to restrain North Korea but Washington will not accept Beijing’s militarization of islands in the South…

[ad_1] By Susan Cornwell | CRANFORD, New Jersey CRANFORD, New Jersey Appearing at a town hall in upscale Cranford, New Jersey this week, five-term Republican congressman Leonard Lance got a barrage of complaints from constituents…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has begun returning to Congress copies of a voluminous 2014 report describing the CIA’s harsh detention and interrogation programs, U.S. officials said on Friday. The Trump administration’s move…

[ad_1] By Nate Raymond | CAMBRIDGE, Mass. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court appointee Neil Gorsuch said on Friday that he does not share what he acknowledged was currently “a lot of cynicism…

[ad_1] By Susan Heavey | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON White House officials said on Friday they did not know yet whether President Donald Trump would seek to block former FBI Director James Comey from testifying to Congress…

[ad_1] By Lawrence Hurley | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON President Donald Trump faces an uphill fight convincing the Supreme Court it should grant his emergency request to reinstate his travel ban on people entering the United States…