There have been plenty of controversies recently over something called gain-of-function research. Amid the highly-politicized debate over the origin of the COVID-19 virus, the term has been thrown ...

WASHINGTON, DC - With a government shutdown looming, we can start to assess what the economic impact might be (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) With a government shutdown potentially starting on ...

"Donald Trump will be a tyrant!" So my neighbors claim. I live in Manhattan. Feel for me. Yes, Trump says wild things, like riffing about "terminating" parts of the U.S. Constitution. But I don't ...

The somewhat simplified diagrams in social studies textbooks and the catchy tunes of “Schoolhouse Rock!” have taught us a rudimentary idea of what society looks like and how government fits into that.

Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers sued the state's Republican-controlled Legislature on Tuesday. Evers accused lawmakers of obstructing basic functions of government, taking particular issue with ...

Serious doubts have been expressed about whether the government can continue to function while Boris Johnson remains in office as a lame duck prime minister. What is Erskine May? The strangest rules ...

Will the government shut down? Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) joins Andrea Mitchell Reports to discuss how President-elect Trump and Elon Musk caused the bipartisan funding bill to fail and to weigh in Trump ...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said: "America cannot function if President Trump has to deal with co-equal branches of government having the ability to check his power." However, while ...

The Kenya president’s order, if implemented, would end the prolonged infighting between the national and county governments over proper revenue sharing and pending transfer of functions that began in ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. The national government has reiterated commitment to transfer the pending devolved functions to the counties by end of ...