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.

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 ...

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.

Send an email to George. House Speaker Mike Johnson delivered a plain message at his weekly press conference Tuesday: Congress must pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by Independence Day, July 4.

Sen. Ron Johnson, a former accountant, unveiled a detailed analysis of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s impact on the defict and concluded that the megabill will blow up the deficit.