Watts was signed by coach Bill Russell to play for the Sonics in 1973 as an undrafted rookie. He was with Seattle for less than five years but became known for his broad smile, bald head and ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and his leadership team have urged Senate Democrats to hold firm and block a GOP-written six-month stopgap funding bill that passed the House earlier ...

With a potential government shutdown fast approaching, the House voted 217 to 213 on Tuesday to approve a short-term spending bill that would fund the government through the end of September.

The 217-213 vote to approve Republicans’ stopgap bill saw just one GOP defection, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and now amplifies pressure on Senate Democrats to decide whether to back the ...

Gov. Tina Kotek is supporting a new bill aimed at updating public school accountability measures to boost student outcomes as Oregon students' reading and math scores have lagged in the years ...

The House voted 217-213 to pass a spending bill, which now heads to the Senate. In dramatic fashion, House Republicans passed a bill to fund the government through the end of September 2025 -- a ...

The House on Tuesday approved a bill aiming to avert a shutdown ahead of a Friday deadline at midnight—after President Donald Trump lobbied Republicans to pass the resolution and promised to ...

Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson is negotiating with the Tennessee Titans, according to sources. There has been no comment out of either camp on how the talks are progressing.

Washington, D.C., officials are making a last-ditch plea to Congress over the continuing resolution (CR) that is expected to head to the House floor on Tuesday. City officials, including D.C ...

Before Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) can dare Senate Democrats to reject a Republican-crafted bill to avert an end-of-week shutdown, he has to pull off a feat: keeping his fractious, razor-thin ...

In 2020 I reviewed a film premiering on Amazon called The Vast of Night, a small southwestern town drama that felt part Twilight Zone, part Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Its debuting ...

Russell Wilson remains unsigned on the second day of the NFL’s legal tampering period, and he could be facing a real problem depending on how the rest of the market plays out. Albert Breer of ...