U.S. District Chief Judge John “Jack” McConnell Jr., who was nominated by President Obama in 2010 and has served as chief ...

Two back-to-back medical incidents on Capitol Hill have critics convinced Congress has turned into an old people's home.

Voters and pundits took to social media Thursday to express their rage over Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) finally standing up ...

Like me, they had been watching a sledgehammer smash into our federal government for more than two weeks: illegal funding freezes ... to reach them for days. Mitch McConnell’s D.C. office ...

The federal hiring freeze implemented by President Donald Trump has affected the hiring of a crucial group of federal workers: firefighters. The freeze comes at a critical time, when fire ...

President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order cutting all foreign aid to South Africa, citing concerns about the country "seizing" ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property ...

Note: Graphic shows some impacts of the U.S. aid halt in its first week. President Trump’s executive order freezing most U.S. foreign aid for 90 days has thrown into turmoil programs that fight ...

McConnell, in his order Monday, counters the Trump administration argument that the freeze was to root out fraud. “But the freezes in effect now were a result of the broad categorical order ...

McConnell wrote in his latest ruling the Trump ... is just one of two lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s attempt to freeze trillions of dollars in grant and loan funding.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at freezing assistance to South Africa over a controversial law that allows the government to seize farmland from ethnic minorities ...

Trump issued an order freezing aid to South Africa over a law which came into effect in January that he alleges allows land to be seized from white farmers "without compensation". South Africa on ...