In one of the poorest states in America, the local utility earns massive profits producing dirty energy with almost no ...

Volunteers distribute groceries to unpaid federal workers and their families during the government shutdown at a Washington, D.C. food bank in October 2025. Photo Credit: NPR Senate Democrats on ...

As the federal shutdown continues, people who rely on the services it provides are worried they won’t be able to put food on the table. Democratic state lawmakers are proposing a bill to require the ...

Sen. Jon Ossoff (Ga.), the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent in the Senate, and his home-state colleague, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), voted Thursday for a Republican bill to pay essential federal ...

The Senate failed to pass a stand-alone bill on Thursday that would pay troops, leaving service members once again with no clear idea of where their next paycheck will come from next week. The ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WALB) – Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff’s bipartisan legislation to strengthen American and Georgia energy security has advanced in Congress, passing a key Senate committee this week. The ...

Senate Democrats blocked a Republican-sponsored bill Thursday to pay active-duty members of the military and other essential federal employees who have been required to work during the government ...

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) objected to a request by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Thursday for the Senate to immediately consider and pass a bill to pay all federal workers, members of the military ...

But Democrats say they oppose any bill that does not pay all federal workers and will instead propose a countermeasure on Thursday that would ensure furloughed workers, too, would be paid. It’s not ...

The Department of Homeland Security has begun using funds from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to pay Coast Guard and law enforcement personnel during the ongoing government shutdown, Roll Call reports ...