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FILE - Arizona Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, center, delivers the State of the State address at the state Capitol as she is ...

Following a stern government warning and mounting pressure from the country’s top business leaders, officials of the National ...

The lengthiest shutdowns were a 16-day shutdown in 2013 under Obama over attempts by Republicans to defund the Affordable Care Act, the 21-day shutdown in 1996 after a dispute between Clinton and ...

If the U.S. government were a private-sector company, it would have filed for bankruptcy long ago to wash away its debt. But ...

Senate Majority Leader Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., walks to the Senate chamber as the Senate works to avert a partial government shutdown ahead of the midnight deadline, at the Capitol in Washington ...

Politics Mar 19 ‘We had an awful choice’: Schumer defends voting with GOP saying shutdown would be worse. By Geoff Bennett, Stephanie Kotuby, Matt Loffman, Alexa Gold ...