Washington — The Senate left Washington Saturday night for its monthlong August recess without a deal to advance dozens of President Donald Trump’s nominees, calling it quits after days of contentious ...

Doors at the Internal Revenue Service building in Seattled were locked and covered with blinds during a partial government shutdown in January 2019. (Elaine Thompson/AP) The House is set to break for ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, speaks at a press conference calling on the administration to release the Epstein files in the U.S. Capitol building last week. File Photo by Annabelle ...

WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives has fled Washington for their annual August recess, but the Senate may be stuck sweltering at work. Both houses of Congress typically take a month off each ...

"It's not going to go away over August," one GOP congressman says. House lawmakers ran to catch flights Wednesday afternoon -- leaving for their August recess a day early -- without taking a ...

After weeks of negotiations and even a rare weekend meeting, senators were unable to come to an agreement on President Donald Trump's nominations before the August recess. Now, Republicans say they ...

President Donald Trump said Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) should cancel the Senate’s summer break and long weekends in order to confirm Trump’s nominees, which include some controversial ...

Roy A. Hunt School Principal Jeff Thimons wants kids to be kids. That’s why he rearranged his school’s schedule to include 22 minutes of recess daily, something new this school year. “We want kids to ...

As students in Hamilton County head back to school, a new state law is changing the way recess is structured for elementary students. The law, which took effect on July 1st, mandates that students ...

Aug. 3 (UPI) --The U.S. Senate began its month‑long recess Saturday night amid negotiations to advance the nomination of dozens of Donald Trump's pending nominees, as the president told Sen. Chuck ...