2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (508+ words) Citizenship is a familiar word. What Americans expect from it, what self-government requires of the people living under it, and how those responsibilities have evolved across nearly 250 years of American democracy are considerably larger questions. Those questions will come to…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (285+ words) The economic confrontation between the United States and Canada will sharpen dramatically after midnight Tuesday, when Canadian tariffs reaching 50 percent descend on billions of dollars in American merchandise, carrying a dispute between two of the world’s most closely intertwined economies…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (250+ words) Conditions improved for workers unable to obtain the number of hours they wanted. The number employed part time for economic reasons fell by 414,000 during August to approximately 4.4 million. That federal category includes employees whose hours have been reduced and workers…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1007+ words) American forces have carried the war with Iran directly into the country’s petroleum trade, striking three Iranian oil tankers after ballistic missiles were fired toward two U.S. Navy warships and pushing an already expanding military confrontation deeper into the Strait…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (456+ words) The investigation substantiated misconduct involving Chavez-DeRemer across six areas of her tenure, placing conduct inside the secretary’s office, during government travel and at her private residence within the same federal inquiry. Conditions inside the Labor Department became one of the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (892+ words) Construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom and military complex at the White House will continue after the U.S. Supreme Court intervened Monday in a legal battle that has followed the project from the demolition of the East Wing through months of accelerated…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (728+ words) Oregon is preparing for another consequential legal confrontation with the federal government after the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit seeking to invalidate portions of state law that allow certain noncitizen students to qualify for resident tuition and state financial assistance…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (643+ words) American flags across Oregon will remain at half staff through sunset September 1 as the state joins a nationwide observance honoring Dolly Parton, whose death at age 80 prompted a presidential proclamation and a corresponding order from Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek. American…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (509+ words) That question is being fought in federal court. States challenging the administration’s election order contend that the president cannot independently rewrite election procedures assigned by the Constitution to states and Congress. The administration has defended the measures as lawful exercises…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (405+ words) A federal judge has invalidated a Trump administration policy that suspended immigrant visa issuance for nationals of 75 countries, overturning a sweeping State Department directive that had halted thousands of applicants from proceeding through portions of the legal immigration system based…...