The federal government was thrown into a shutdown Wednesday with no easy endgame in sight, as Democrats held firm to their ...

The US government shutdown has prompted Gulf-based American embassies to maintain scheduled visa and passport services amid a ...

The National Flood Insurance Program, or NFIP is a FEMA program that provides flood insurance as an alternative to private insurance. The federal shutdown is poised to stall the program until it gets ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune laid out a path to end the government shutdown in an exclusive interview Wednesday, saying ...

While the average length of government shutdowns, looking back to the 1970s, is eight days, the last shutdown from 2018 to 2019 lasted 35 days.

In the thick of a government shutdown that lasted just one hour, the Michigan House and Senate passed a continuation budget to hold the state over for the next eight days – a move that was described ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. ( WSFA) - The government shutdown took effect at midnight eastern time on Wednesday. Lawmakers on Wednesday ...

GOP says Dems want free health care for immigrants here illegally. Dems say that's not at all what they're demanding.

GOP leaders in Congress say those requests are nonstarters. A shutdown will plow on "as long as it takes for the Democrats to agree to fund the government," said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, ...

Attempts by both Republican and Democratic U.S. senators to end an impasse on federal government funding that started a ...

This shutdown is expected to last at least three days, as the Senate isn't likely to hold any votes until at least Oct. 3.