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WASHINGTON — Appropriations Committee leaders distributed spending allocations to their dozen subcommittees on Thursday, sources familiar with the talks said, one of the last steps before lawmakers and staff can finish drafting the sprawling omnibus package they plan to unveil Monday afternoon.

House and Senate Democrats are weighing rule changes that would set limits for serving as committee leaders.

Sen. Murphy seeks a security review of a Saudi stake in Twitter, saying a foreign power could influence a government communications tool.

Partisan division over U.S.-Mexico border security threatens to tank a Democratic effort this month to ramp up federal grant funds to help migrants who recently crossed the border, including those whom Republican-led states have bused and flown across the country.

Division over U.S.-Mexico border security threatens to tank a Democratic effort this month to ramp up federal grant funds to help migrants.

WASHINGTON — Mill Creek Township School District in Pennsylvania plans to upgrade its surveillance cameras, radios and a door monitoring system with a $500,000 federal grant, one of hundreds awarded across the country over the past four years as part of a $1 billion program Congress passed to address school…

Congress now appears poised to spend even more to bolster physical security at local schools in response to a recent wave of mass shootings.

Bipartisan negotiators unveiled a broad measure Tuesday intended to combat a surge in mass shootings.

WASHINGTON — A key sticking point in the negotiations over a bipartisan gun violence package being drafted in the Senate has become how states can use grant money in that package.

A key sticking point in the negotiations over a bipartisan gun violence package has become how states can use grant money in that package.

The Senate’s gun violence framework expands mental health treatment, but there's little connection between gun violence and mental illness.