Rev. Jesse Jackson, who has been receiving around-the-clock care at home, has been hospitalized with a rare neurological disorder, according to his Chicago-based organization.
President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill to end a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded travelers at airports and generated long lines at some food banks.
House Republicans used their slight majority to get the bill over the finish line with a mostly party-line vote of 222-209. The Senate has already passed the measure. It now goes to President Trump.
Democrats on the U.S. House Oversight Committee have released alleged emails exchanged between accused sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and others about President Trump.
Costs climbed to nearly four cents per penny, so the one-cent coin will no longer be minted.
Actor Hosea Chanchez was honored by the Montgomery City Council while he was in the city to mourn his father’s tragic death.
The House is scheduled to take up a bill to reopen the government that the Senate passed on Monday night.
The bill that would end the longest government shutdown could be up for a final vote in the U.S. House as soon as Wednesday.
The U.S. Senate has passed legislation to reopen the government, bringing the longest shutdown in history closer to an end.
President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his onetime chief of staff Mark Meadows and others accused of backing efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
