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Utah Sen. Mitt Romney calls for establishing a congressional commission to come up with solutions to the national debt that now exceeds $33 trillion.

Newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing the same problems that plagued his predecessor as Republicans struggle to unite.

November 17 is the deadline to avoid government shutdown. A continuing resolution may well pass, though budgetary questions will remain.

The Democratic-led Senate and Republican-controlled House have yet to come to an agreement on how to keep the government operating past Nov. 17.

With only about a week until the government funding deadline, Senators are moving ahead with a plan to extend the deadline.

House Republicans are uncertain as to how they will avert a government shutdown. Speaker Mike Johnson has made clear he doesn't want to see one happen.

For young people with serious behavioral health challenges, a new report showed Pennsylvanias congregate-care settings may be the best option. The reports authors surveyed 20 providers of congregate care, in facilities housing from about a dozen kids to almost 300. Jaclyn Kreshock, director of childrens behavioral health services for the Pennsylvania Council of Children, Youth and Family Services and the reports co-author, said there is a growing movement to transition youth to more community-...

House Republicans are at odds over how to prevent a government shutdown that would begin in little more than a week, raising questions over whether the conference will be able to rally behind its new Speaker on an issue that has long divided it. Lawmakers emerging from a House GOP conference meeting Tuesday said that…

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy shuts down prospect of elections, calling it "irresponsible" in a time of war.