Yuval Rosenberg

To effectively confront the climate crisis, humanity must collectively recognize our responsibility for the environmental damage caused and our moral obligation to address our mistakes with determination and fairness

The House and Senate Armed Services Committees on Saturday released the 1,813 pages of legislative text for a $895.2 billion compromise National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025.

Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster just named “polarization” its 2024 word of the year, and if you need any evidence that it is an apt choice, consider this: Even before President-elect Donald Trump takes office again, Republicans are already feeling more upbeat about the economy than they have since November 2020, while consumer sentiment among Democrats has taken a decidedly gloomy turn, falling to its lowest level since July 2022, when gas prices were spiking. Those findings are from the pr

Is it the responsibility of the federal government to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage? Gallup pollsters found that

The House on Wednesday afternoon passed the $884 billion defense policy bill for 2025. The measure passed in a bipartisan 281-140 vote despite the late inclusion of a controversial measure by House Speaker Mike Johnson that would ban the Department of Defense from providing gender dysphoria treatments such as hormones and puberty blockers “that could result in sterilization” for transgender children of servicemembers. Two hundred Republicans and 81 Democrats voted for the bill, while 124 Democra

Congress has one week left until a December 20 shutdown deadline and lawmakers are still hammering out the final details of a plan to extend funding into March. A slew of other items, including additional disaster-relief funding and an extension of the farm bill, could also get rolled into the year-end legislative package.

Congress is once again rushing to pass a stopgap measure to fund the government and avoid a shutdown of federal agencies — and, as has so often been the case in recent years, the process has spun into a politically fraught mess.

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday upended efforts to avert a partial government shutdown this weekend, blasting a bipartisan deal negotiated by House Speaker Mike Johnson and calling for a complicated new negotiation.

President-elect Donald Trump and House Republican leaders had a Plan B to avoid a partial government shutdown this weekend. It just got shot down because of bipartisan opposition. GOP leaders and members spent much of Thursday frantically negotiating among themselves for a new bill to avert a looming partial shutdown just hours after Trump and billionaire Elon Musk unceremoniously trashed a deal negotiated by House Speaker Mike Johnson. They managed to cobble together a significantly slimmed-dow

With just hours to go before a midnight shutdown deadline, the House on Friday evening overwhelmingly passed a stopgap plan to keep federal agencies open until the middle of March, provide disaster relief for hurricane victims and deliver financial aid to farmers.