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It was another dramatic week in Congress, featuring cowboy hats, shamrocks, bubbles, shutdown drama and Democrats in retreat.

Senate Democrats mounted a last-ditch protest Thursday over a Republican-led government funding bill that already passed the ...

In the past week, workers for several state agencies received e-mails about changes to work-from-home policies. The messages ...

Opinion: At a time when the nation is largely divided on partisan issues, most Americans agree that federal spending and debt ...