The federal judge hearing the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet's Google urged the government's lawyers to redraft a proposed protective order to remove potential barriers ...

California makes history by enacting the first law to define and ultimately ban unhealthy ultraprocessed foods in school ...

Most of the provisions of the California Constitution concerning the Legislature are found in Article IV, Sections 1 thru 28. Nonetheless, there are a number of provisions found in other Articles of ...

In response to the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on Charlotte's light rail system, the North Carolina legislature gave final approval Tuesday to a criminal justice package that limits bail and ...

(The Center Square) - The California Legislature passed a bill to provide $10 million in state funding for a governor-overseen news media subsidy program that media leaders say will erode the ...

President Donald Trump rarely embraces a battle where he’s not the aggressor. The government shutdown fight is an exception to that rule. Six years ago, Trump picked an unwinnable brawl over border ...

The most recent partial state government shutowns in Michigan, in 2007 and 2009, lasted only a few hours each. Before those brief shutdowns during the administration of former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Approving low-level nominations and weighing censures have commanded attention, while violence rages in Gaza, Ukraine and at home. Before the House left for a recess on Friday, Speaker Mike Johnson ...

House Republicans voted on their plan to avoid a government shutdown with a temporary, seven-week funding bill. But within hours, that was blocked by Democrats in the Senate. Their own plan for ...

Senate Democrats on Friday blocked a House-passed bill to fund federal departments and agencies for seven weeks, putting Washington on the path to an Oct. 1 government shutdown. Democrats came ...