Panama deports 29 Colombians on first US-funded flight

Kentucky House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled spending bills aimed at boosting education funding and tapping into budget reserves to pump more money into public pensions and infrastructure projects. The two-year budget plan introduced in the House doesn’t offer a guaranteed pay raise for teachers and other public school employees. Nor does it contain state funds […]

The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear oral arguments about whether a Texas state abortion requirement is at odds with a federal emergency care law – permitting the restriction in the Lone Star State to be upheld.  Supreme Court justices, for now, are keeping in place a lower court ruling that hospitals in Texas […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is facing his last critical leadership test of this year as congressional lawmakers grapple with a looming government shutdown deadline at the end of this month.  The House Republican Conference is at odds over how to proceed with funding the government in the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. […]