Saturday's politics & policy stories


Updated Dec 21, 2024 - Business

Where the government shutdown fiasco stands and what it means for you

Updated Dec 21, 2024 - Politics & Policy

Biden signs bill funding government through March, averting shutdown

Updated Dec 21, 2024 - Business

What a government shutdown could have meant for holiday air travel

Mike Johnson's GOP rebels want their own Nancy Pelosi

Dec 21, 2024 - Business

The limits of the MAGA-verse

Senate sends funding bill to Biden, averting shutdown

House passes 11th-hour bill to avert government shutdown

Scoop: Jeffries' plan to kill the debt ceiling forever

Mike Johnson's magic debt ceiling promise

Schumer and Biden eclipse McConnell and Trump on confirming judges

Trump's coming House headaches

Musk endorses Germany's far-right AfD party

Updated Dec 20, 2024 - Politics & Policy

Johnson reengages with Dems after failed Plan B

FAA expands drone flight restrictions into New York

U.S. diplomats meet Syrian opposition leader in Damascus

MLK's daughter urges Americans not to tune out Trump's inauguration

Dec 20, 2024 - Politics & Policy

Kylie Kelce's new podcast eclipses Joe Rogan

Biden admin cancels $4.3 billion in latest round of student loan relief

Dec 20, 2024 - Business

Elon Musk, volatility junkie, disrupts the regular order

Column / Behind the Curtain

Behind the Curtain: Media vs. reporting

Why the drug industry and its friends are holding their fire on RFK Jr.

GOP rage erupts as Johnson's spending plan collapses

Hakeem Jeffries pulls off a pre-Trump power play

House rejects GOP funding bill in major blow to Mike Johnson

U.S. deportations hit highest number in a decade in 2024