National & World Headlines
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Tentative budget agreement to keep government operating gives Trump far less money than he sought for border wall
February 12, 2019 -
The American AI Initiative is intended to enhance national and economic security, directing federal agencies to make data and computing resources more available to artificial intelligence experts.
February 11, 2019 -
The vote now heads to the full Senate, where Barr is expected to be confirmed in a vote as soon as next week. Barr, who previously served as attorney general from 1991 to 1993, would succeed Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
February 07, 2019 -
The Army is developing a new, more grueling and complex fitness exam that adds dead lifts, power throws and other exercises designed to make soldiers more fit and ready for combat
February 06, 2019 -
President Donald Trump says he's nominating a Washington veteran with lobbying ties to U.S. energy companies to lead the Interior Department
February 04, 2019 -
A Pentagon report says the total number of sexual assaults at the three U.S. military academies increased slightly last year, but an anonymous survey suggests far more encounters are going unreported
January 31, 2019 -
With government temporarily reopened, Trump says he doubts negotiators will strike a budget deal that he'd accept
January 28, 2019 -
A splintered Senate has swatted down competing Democratic and Republican plans for ending the 34-day partial government shutdown
January 24, 2019 -
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender men and women while court challenges continue
January 22, 2019 -
Absence rate among unpaid government airport screeners hits 10 percent
January 21, 2019 -
Thousands of federal employees and their families are applying for unemployment and food stamps to get by as the longest government shutdown in U.S. history drags on
January 17, 2019 -
Number of furloughed federal workers seeking US jobless aid doubled in week of Jan. 5
January 17, 2019 -
The inspector general for the General Services Administration says the agency improperly ignored the U.S. Constitution's provision outlawing foreign gifts when it OKed President Donald Trump's management of his Washington hotel after his 2016 election
January 16, 2019 -
The Federal Aviation Administration said it is calling 2,200 safety inspectors back to work by the end of this week.
January 15, 2019 -
Republican lawmakers optimistic Trump administration would not use disaster money to fund border wall
January 11, 2019