The shutdown happened because Republicans and Democrats could not agree to pass a bill funding government services into ...

The federal government shut down. Will mail be delivered? Will Social Security checks arrive? Will national parks close?

President Donald Trump’s administration is warning of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a shutdown ...

In past shutdowns, hundreds of thousands of federal workers, those deemed nonessential, have been furloughed or sent home ...

S.D., warned talks would only happen under an open government — essentially pushing Democrats into a corner to support the ...

The U.S. federal government is on the verge of its first shutdown in more than six years after last-minute negotiations on a ...

A deep impasse between Republican President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats has triggered the 15th U.S. government ...