Discover A Novel Idea Bookstore in Lincoln, Nebraska — a massive treasure trove of used books that promises an unforgettable literary adventure! This isn’t your average bookshop – it’s a sprawling ...

Helena’s “Book Guy” David Spencer left behind over 25,000 books when he died. The Holter Museum of Art is selling them to fund his end-of-life expenses.

Photo: Getty Images WASHINGTON—In laying out the checks and balances of democracy, authors of the U.S. Constitution imagined that the president and Congress would wrestle for power when their ...

Mayor Eric Adams has been called to Washington DC later this month to testify before a congressional committee about the Big Apple’s sanctuary city policies. Adams was sent a letter by the House ...

The Trump Administration is undertaking what amounts to a wide-ranging assault on Congress's power of the purse, seeking instead to usurp authority over federal spending. Today, the Office of ...

Impoundment, the practice of presidents declining to spend money Congress has appropriated, has a long history, with multiple presidents dating back to Thomas Jefferson taking some action against ...

One week in, the Trump administration is broadening its assault on the functions of government and shifting control of the federal purse strings further away from members of Congress. President ...

On a typical day, you can’t turn on the news without hearing someone say that Congress is broken. The implication is that this dereliction explains why the institution is inert and unresponsive ...

The White House’s temporary pause on trillions in federal spending could set up a court fight over executive authority and Congress’s control of the purse. By Charlie Savage Charlie Savage ...

In one sentence, Trump appears to have cut off hundreds of billions of dollars in spending that Congress has already ... called the White House after reading the text of last week’s executive ...

California has the largest delegation in Congress, the majority of whom are Democrats. But few hold the political sway the Golden State is accustomed to in the Republican-led chambers. Much of the ...

He broke a law that Congress passed as a reform because of his own earlier behavior as president. What he did flings the door wide open to run-of-the-mill corruption and potentially far worse.