The Senate voted this afternoon to pass a Republican-written spending bill and avert a government shutdown. In a crucial ...

Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), a political legend whose quick wit bridged partisan gaps in the years before today’s political acrimony, has died. He was 93.

People from around Wyoming and the world expressed their condolences over the passing of former Wyoming U.S. Senator Al Simpson, who died Friday ...

On March 18, 1990, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged as the strongest party after elections to the East German parliament, the People's Chamber. The CDU laid claim to the offices of prime ...

Alan Simpson, an old school moderate Republican senator who helped craft major U.S. immigration reform in 1986 and made ...

East German lawmakers became the first parliamentarians to have come to power in free and fair elections.On March 18, 1990, ...

Some world events can look different to those of us on this side of the Atlantic, also, more precisely, in Berlin. God knows, here too I’m frightened at ...

The new Austrian government said on Wednesday that family reunion procedures for migrants will be immediately halted because ...

Coalition negotiations between the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats to form a new federal government began Thursday.

Lamorne Morris and Max Greenfield have a 'New Girl' night out in L.A., plus Oprah Winfrey, Audra McDonald, Heidi Klum and ...

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