WSJ national political reporter Ken Thomas explains the confusion around the first round of federal layoffs and why another round may be coming. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images A ...

As tensions between neighboring countries escalate, land grabbers swiftly moved in to occupy the homes and shops of Afghan nationals who had been repatriated from Karachi's Gulshan-e-Maymar Afghan ...

Dozens of people have been killed and wounded as fresh cross-border clashes erupted between Afghan and Pakistani forces in the early hours of Wednesday. Reports claim that the Afghan Taliban forces ...

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out its mass firing of federal workers during the government shutdown. This Wednesday ruling comes on ...

A federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from continuing government reduction in force (RIF), granting a temporary restraining order sought by labor unions that ...

Oct. 15 (UPI) --The Senate voted 51-44 in favor of a continuing resolution to fund the federal government on Wednesday, which is nine votes short of the 60 needed to end the government shutdown. The ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from laying off federal workers during the government shutdown, which has now ...

Judge Temporarily Blocks the Trump Administration From Firing Workers During the Government Shutdown SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s ...

Pakistan Afghanistan border clashes highlights: Pakistan's foreign ministry said a 48-hour ceasefire has been agreed to by the two countries after fresh clashes along border killed dozens of civilians ...

Afghan security forces who fought alongside British and US troops are still being hunted down, tortured and executed by the Taliban while the UK drags its heels over bringing at-risk Afghans to safety ...

The move by Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz came after a Miami activist alleged that officials at Miami Dade College violated Florida's open government law when they gifted the sizable plot of real estate to ...

Fresh fighting broke out Wednesday along the volatile Pakistan-Afghanistan border, killing more than a dozen civilians and troops to shatter a fragile peace after weekend clashes that killed dozens.