For Catholics, Lent comes with specific fasting instructions. Catholics fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, meaning eating one full meal and two smaller meals that don't add up to a full meal ...

When is Lent 2025? This year, Lent begins on Wednesday, March 5 and ends on Thursday, April 17. It lasts six weeks before Easter. Lent is the religious period of fasting and repentance for Christians.

WASHINGTON – Just after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday — in time for a ...

Ash Wednesday marks the opening of the Lenten Season, a period of fasting and prayer in the liturgical calendar. It takes place 46 days before Easter Sunday.

Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is signaling that he will not bend to political pressure to back the Senate draft of President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful” bill. Johnson, one of ...

Four Republican fiscal hawks flipped their votes in the early hours of Thursday morning to advance President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill, allowing it to come to the House floor ...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and President Donald Trump arrive for a House Republican conference meeting, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson may have softened his tone on President Donald Trump's massive tax and spending bill, but he continues to signal his opposition.

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson may have softened his tone on President Donald Trump's massive tax and spending bill, but he continues to signal his opposition.