Congress allocated $50 billion for initiatives aimed at supporting democracy, scholarship programs, U.S. embassy operations ...

"Our allies no longer trust Trump, and by extension, the United States," writes Senator Chris Coons.

President Trump froze a program to allow Afghans who had worked with American troops to come to the United States. Now ...

Stream now with KPBS Passport / Watch Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 or on Ken Burns' website For 200 years, the United States Congress has been one of the country's most important and ...

WASHINGTON — The federal government has shut down after lawmakers in Congress failed to strike a deal on a funding bill, forcing agencies to furlough their "non-essential" employees. Under the ...

The US Space Force’s “Resilient GPS” program could have dramatically strengthened GPS reliability—at the same moment adversaries like China have sought to undermine it.

With the shutdown ball squarely in the Senate’s court, a fair question feels timelier than ever: Is the United States Senate what our Founders envisioned it to be — or has it fallen short of their ...

More than a tenth of the current Congress has now indicated they will not return to their seats after the 2026 midterms, driven by redistricting, retirements and lawmakers running for different ...

As donald trump has muscled his agenda forward, I have often wondered when—if ever—Congress might try to assert its authority. This week it seemed to stir when confronted with an unusual question: was ...

The United States Senate is at a precarious moment. From tariffs to agency funding to foreign affairs, the Senate’s check on the executive branch is arguably weaker than ever, with some critics, and ...

At a time when space is unmistakably a contested warfighting domain, the United States risks slowing its own progress not because of a lack of technology or talent, but because Congress has failed to ...