From the locks to the long shots to those in between, we count Cooperstown candidates in this year's World Baseball Classic.

The Social Security Fairness Act signed at the beginning of 2025 is now unfair, at least when it comes to taxes, according to some representatives in Congress. Those income spikes last year likely ...

A Republican voting overhaul is back on Capitol Hill — with an added photo identification provision and an altered name — as President Trump seeks to upend elections in a midterm year. Opponents say ...

Thirty Senate Democrats introduced a bill that would guarantee paid sick leave for all Americans. The Healthy Families Act would let all workers earn up to one week of sick time a year. Workers could ...

A new House bill titled the Daylight Act of 2026 proposed to end twice-yearly clock changes by permanently shifting U.S. time zones by 30 minutes and repealing daylight saving time, according to ...

WASHINGTON — The SAVE America Act to require proof of citizenship nationwide to register to vote and overhaul voting laws has now topped 50 votes in the Republican-controlled Senate. The bill is ...

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The measure had no path forward in the Senate, where Democrats are all but certain to block it and Republicans have said they will not try to skirt filibuster rules to ram it through. By Annie Karni ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Republican-controlled US House on Wednesday passed a new version of the SAVE Act, ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has made a career of mainstreaming terrible ideas, but his proposed moratorium on data center construction might be his worst yet. “We have not a clue. We are totally ...

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