The White House is directing federal agencies to begin executing shutdown plans after a bill to keep the government open once ...

The first government shutdown in nearly seven years began at midnight after lawmakers failed to reach a deal on extending ...

The US federal government has shut down after a Republican funding bill failed in the Senate on Tuesday evening ...

Thousands of government employees are likely to be put on unpaid leave, as Trump also threatens to permanently fire federal ...

Democrats and Republicans in Congress are angrily blaming each other and refusing to budge from their positions on funding ...

It's unclear how long the shutdown will last, with the parties nowhere near an agreement. Democrats want health care money, ...

The government is set to shut down at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday after Senate Democrats voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government.

Much of the federal government is now shut down after Republicans and Democrats in the Senate failed to agree on a funding ...

Democrats and Republicans didn't reach an agreement before the 11:59 p.m. deadline to avoid a government shutdown. It's ...

Republican and Democratic lawmakers have so far been holding a steady stalemate in their negotiations over certain aspects of the bill, like expiring health care subsidies. If they can’t reach an ...

If Congress doesn't reach some kind of deal by midnight Oct. 1, the federal government will shut down. Here's what that does ...

A man convicted in Miami federal court last year for his part in a kidnapping conspiracy that ended with two people murdered ...