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The Buss family is selling the Los Angeles Lakers after nearly 50 years of ownership in a record-breaking $10 billion deal to Dodgers owner Mark Walter. NBA legend Magic Johnson, a part-owner of the ...

Senators departed the nation’s capital on Wednesday for a weeklong break, leaving behind uncertainty surrounding President ...

• threats to Medicare despite President Trump’s promises to the contrary. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Senate budget bill would increase the federal deficit by over two trillion ...

Members of the Illinois House and Senate Republican caucuses have asked Gov. JB Pritzker to veto Senate Bill 328 and filed a lawsuit in Sangamon County court to enforce the Illinois Constitution’s ...

Ghazala Hashmi is Virginia’s first Muslim and Indian-American nominee for lieutenant governor, facing Republican John Reid in ...

A Republican Ohio Senator wants to increase the number of Ohio lawmakers. Ohio state Sen. Bill Blessing, R-Colerain Township, ...

Senate Republicans are taking Medicaid cuts even further than their House counterparts with legislation that targets hospital ...

Democrats have historically been able to pass their agenda quickly, while Republicans have struggled to do so, with infighting and ideological divisions preventing meaningful progress.

Donald Trump’s Maga supporters are not naturally in favour of US involvement in Iran. Many have criticised Trump for ...

The Senate is divided on war powers as President Donald Trump weighs military action against Iran's nuclear sites. Some argue ...

Republican leaders in the Senate are pushing to pass President Donald Trump’s "big, beautiful bill" that would make the 2017 tax cuts permanent.