The government has now been shut down for over a week, and Congress still appears deadlocked on a funding plan. The Senate again failed to advance competing proposals from Democrats and Republicans to ...

• 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 ...

At the start of the government shutdown last week, it was Democrats who looked like they wouldn’t be united. Right off the bat, they lost the votes of three members of their Senate caucus. They had ...

The Trump administration’s strategy to swiftly roll out mass layoffs of federal workers during the government shutdown has shifted in recent days, administration officials familiar with the talks told ...

Police arrested and charged a man with possession of explosives Sunday outside a Washington, DC church where an annual Mass ...