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Joe Neguse navigates Washington vitriol during ‘hectic’ first month in Congress...

WASHINGTON -- Joe Neguse doesn’t want to be called “congressman.” It’s a new title for the 34-year-old freshman Democrat in the U.S. House, who’s been...

Federal workers in Denver protest shutdown: ‘Do your job so...

Nathan Wiser, who monitors water quality for the Environmental Protection Agency in Denver, has been unable to go to work for 20 days due...

Littwin: Trump’s shutdown battle cry — praise the Lord and pass...

Donald Trump is losing badly in the government shutdown battle, and that scares the hell out of me. I don’t see any viable, face-saving...

Littwin: As Trump sees a glimpse of the future, he definitely...

I’m not sure what the headline should be from the Oval Office Throwdown (h/t breitbart.com, which actually thinks Trump won the fight). You could...

Littwin: We apparently just missed out on a Saturday Night Massacre,...

Remember the government shutdown? It ended on, like, Monday. No? Don’t feel bad. Nobody does. It’s Friday as I write this, and a week in TrumpWorld...

What the battle over the Dream Act means for the West

For a short time, soccer seemed like it might be Daniela Benitez’s ticket to attending college. She didn’t begin playing soccer until the eighth...

Wiretap: The biggest shutdown questions are what Trump wants and whether...

It would probably be much easier to come to a compromise on the Dreamers and on the government shutdown if the president could say...

Wiretap: The GOP plan to avoid shutdown is simple — use...

The Republican plan for averting a government shutdown this Friday is to dare Democrats to vote against long-term funding of the Children’s Health Insurance...

Wiretap: Why a gossipy, error-ridden book is the perfect explainer for...

A poorly written book filled with tedious detail and more than a few errors has become a runaway sensation — and for good reason....

Wiretap: Now we’re back to the legal question of whether a...

Donald Trump's lawyer says the president probably knew that Michael Flynn had lied to the FBI at the time Trump reportedly asked then-FBI Director...