Emma O'Loughlen, a member of the Rapid City Youth Council and Rapid City Area Schools' student school board, shows a photo she took from the botanical gardens in the nation's capitol.

The Senate passed a six-month spending bill Friday, hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune arrived at the apex of power just as President Donald Trump is exerting his own executive ...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich writes that President Trump, Senate Majority Leader Thune and House Speaker Johnson pulled off a major political feat by getting the continuing resolution passed.