With a government shutdown just hours away, Democrats and Republicans in Congress are angrily blaming each other and refusing ...

The government shutdown has begun. And it’s plunging the U.S. into a fresh cycle of uncertainty as roughly 750,000 federal ...

Two major news agencies are demanding that Israel clarify what happened during strikes last month that killed five ...

The government shutdown means further disruption for the US Education Department, which has seen half of its employees laid ...

Senate Democrats have voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government, putting it on a near certain path to a ...

When a lapse in funding occurs, the law requires agencies to cease activity and furlough “non-excepted” employees. Excepted ...

The federal government ran out of money after a Democratic-backed spending bill that would have extended health care ...

Roughly 750,000 federal workers are expected to be furloughed, some potentially fired by the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump and Congress failed to strike an agreement to keep government programs and services running by Wednesday’s deadline.

Get live updates from Capitol Hill as Republicans and Democrats in Congress scramble to avoid a government shutdown.