The White House has issued a memo demanding federal agencies fire workers not aligned with the president's agenda if a GOP-led spending bill is not passed by Tuesday, intensifying pressure on Senate ...

Small business owners, self-employed people and early retirees are among the 24 million Americans who could lose the tax credit ...

Annually, that’s £12,535 - just £35 shy of the current £12,570 tax-free personal allowance. But while rising pensions are welcome news for retirees, frozen tax thresholds could easily tip total ...

The agreement enables the UK to detain adult migrants upon arrival and send them back to France if their asylum claims are deemed inadmissible ...

Congress and the White House have days to fund the government and avert a disruptive and potentially costly lapse in funding.

The government runs out of funding as the clock strikes midnight from Tuesday, Sept. 30 to Wednesday, Oct. 1. To avoid that shutdown, Congress must pass either a short-term funding bill, called a ...

As of Sept. 30, you'll need a bank account to access most federal payments, like Social Security, Social Security Disability ...

The North Carolina legislature has approved a criminal justice package in response to the stabbing death of a Ukrainian ...

Democrats are demanding that Republicans extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies. They're willing to shut down the government to do it.

Lawmakers have until Oct. 1 to pass a new budget. If they don't, the federal government will shut down. Here's what that looks like.

A government shutdown essentially indicates that money to pay federal employees and keep the lights on at federal agencies has run out. That means that non-essential government functions are reduced, ...

Representative Greg Casar says that the Trump administration is an alliance of the superwealthy and the right-wing and that ...