The stalemate over how to end the government shutdown is stretching into another week without a clear resolution in sight, as ...

Lawmakers are digging in on a government shutdown that started Wednesday, the start of a new fiscal year and the deadline to ...

Senate again rejects competing funding bills from Democrats and Republicans as the shutdown is set to hit the one-week mark.

Senate Democrats and Republicans on Friday failed to pass competing bills to fund the government, extending the shutdown into ...

The Senate again shot down dueling bills authored by Republicans and Democrats. There's still no surefire end in sight to the fiscal crisis, which has shuttered a swath of federal agencies and ...

Two Democrats and an independent voted for a GOP measure to end the shutdown, but the 54-44 vote left Republicans short of the 60 votes needed.

WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — Hopes for a quick end to the government shutdown were fading Friday as Republicans and ...

Hopes for a quick end to the government shutdown were fading Friday as Republicans and Democrats dug in for a prolonged fight ...

Congress was no step closer to ending the government shutdown after the Senate rejected, for the fifth time, dueling short-term funding bills from Republicans and Democrats. The chamber voted mostly ...

A blizzard stranded hundreds of trekkers on Mount Everest over the weekend as heavy snow pummeled the Himalayas. Around 350 people have been safely evacuated, but more than 200 others are still ...

A Republican bill to fund the U.S. government and end a shutdown was falling short of the votes needed for passage in the ...