The government has been shut down for more than a week, and Congress still appears deadlocked on a funding plan.

Congressional Democrats are privately preparing to hold their position in the shutdown standoff for several more weeks if ...

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to ...

Federal workers are now feeling the reality of the shutdown. Many are due this week to receive partial paychecks, compensating them only for the days they worked before the government shut down on Oct ...

President Donald Trump is considering not giving back pay to all federal employees once the government shutdown ends, ...

• Shutdown-related firings begin: White House budget chief Russell Vought announced the government has started firing federal workers as the shutdown drags on. So far, it appears the Departments of ...

DHS and DOGE have disqualified dozens of groups that support Islamic life from receiving security grants administered by FEMA ...

Congress is veering even closer to a government shutdown at midnight after a deadlocked Senate failed to pass a pair of ...

President Donald Trump has determined that the US is in an “armed conflict” with the drug cartels his administration has designated as terrorist organizations, according to a notice the Pentagon ...

One of three Tennessee lawmakers who drew national attention in 2023 when Republicans in the state Legislature moved to expel them following a gun control protest is running for Congress, he announced ...

Federal prosecutors are nearing a decision to bring possible perjury charges against former FBI Director James Comey, with a ...