The U.S. Senate is in recess until next week, meaning that the now 24-day-long government shutdown is likely to continue at least through the weekend.

The Trump transition team may think it has a game plan to install controversial nominees in Cabinet jobs, but the conservative Supreme Court is likely to block it. The regular order would be for the ...

Congressional Republicans plan to use the next four weeks away from Washington making a public case for a sweeping rewrite of the tax code, an ambitious legislative undertaking they hope will heal ...

As lawmakers hold their final committee hearings and cast their last votes before their August recess, they may not realize that the break is a relatively new phenomenon. According to tradition, ...

MIDDLETOWN — After an agreement with the Middletown Public Schools teachers union was reached, the standard recess period, which split recreation time during the pandemic into two 10-minute sessions, ...

Tennessee moms co-founded the Say Yes To Recess campaign that spread to 30% of US states in just 10 months, pushing for 60 ...

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Welcome to the August (Quasi-)Recess. No, there will not be kickball.

“Delightful” best describes Disney’s Recess: School’s Out, an animated feature filled with childhood references and grown-up remembrances. While the Rugrats franchise, Nickelodeon’s juggernaut, ...