Democrats say fallout from the Trump administration’s aggressive tactics during the shutdown of the federal government could ...

Gathered in the unusually quiet halls of the U.S. Capitol, Republican leaders faced the cameras for a second day and implored ...

The attorney general faced questions about President Donald Trump's National Guard deployments in U.S. cities and files related to Jeffrey Epstein, among other issues.

The longest government shutdown in American history happened in 2018-2019, during President Trump’s first term in office. The ...

Staffing shortages have already caused delays at airports in Denver; Burbank, California; and Newark, New Jersey.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks Democrats have a point on the Obamacare fight at the center of the government ...

The federal government shutdown is now nearing the one-week mark, with no end to the impasse in sight. Follow for live updates.

The first government shutdown in nearly seven years got underway as Republicans and Democrats remained at an impasse over ...

The federal government is currently shut down. NPR's network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting ...

While federal agencies are stuck in a holding pattern, some effects of the shutdown are being felt locally right now; others could be weeks away.

A draft White House memo suggests that furloughed federal employees need not be paid for time they didn’t work during the ...

The last federal shutdown ran for 35 days, from Dec. 22, 2018, to Jan. 25, 2019, making it the longest closure in U.S.