It's a concept that’s normally dry, esoteric and distanced from Americans' everyday lives, yet the heart of the matter is a ...

Fewer and fewer people seem to understand how our government was designed to work, Grunion columnist Harry Saltzgaver writes.

Mike Forrester with AP Former East Oregonian editor Mike Forrester, right, is pictured here in his early news career as a reporter for the Associated Press in Los Angeles with world heavyweight boxing ...

President Donald Trump, beginning his voyage last month into his second four-year term in the White House, has assembled ...

Half a century ago Congress, the courts, other key institutions within and outside of the government, and the American public ...

He wanted his aides to tell diplomats, “I’m sorry ... he is out of control ... you don’t know the man,” or that he’s a “dramatically disjointed personality ... capable of barbaric cruelty ... more ...

A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.

The Trump administration grabbed at the 'power of the purse' in Congress, using a little-known executive action that could ...

Leavitt married Nicholas Riccio, who is 32-years her senior, after getting engaged on Christmas Day in 2023. It is unclear ...

Challengers said even a short pause could be deeply harmful and unconstitutional. A showdown between Congress and President ...

During the dismal days that followed Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, there was a dark-humored joke ...