Confirmation bias is the tendency to notice and favor information that supports what we already believe. This film shows how ...

What would you think if your best friend, who texts you almost daily, hasn’t been in contact for over a week? Let’s say that you’ve texted, emailed, and even called her. Still no response. Would you ...

The Senate has already confirmed at least one nominee whom political experts deemed as potentially unconfirmable a few weeks ago: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Hegseth skated through to confirmation ...

Senators voted on a party-line Wednesday to advance President Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department. Kennedy, the anti-vaccine ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial environmental lawyer turned public health critic, is set to find out on Tuesday if ...

Republicans have since deployed the maneuver two other times. In 2017, Senate Republicans eliminated the filibuster for ...

A power struggle concerning government spending is heating up in Washington, D.C., igniting what some Senate Democrats call a "constitutional crisis" amid the Trump administration’s efforts to curb ...

The Senate is expected to vote Thursday on the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent lawyer and vocal vaccine critic, as the nation's health secretary, controlling $1.7 trillion in ...

The Senate left Washington for the August recess having failed to act on more than 150 presidential nominees that are waiting to be confirmed for senior government positions, many of which are ...

UPDATE: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has cleared his first hurdle to become the nation's top health official when the senate finance committee voted to advance his nomination for a floor vote. Republicans ...