Native American leaders warned senators last week that mass layoffs and potential benefit lapses are making this government shutdown more painful for their communities and insisted that the federal ...

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Department of Agriculture to tap its emergency funds to keep the program feeding millions of Americans afloat amid the government shutdown. U.S. District ...

The top two Republicans in Congress are showing no interest in taking the unprecedented step of ending the legislative ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday urged congressional Republicans to unilaterally end the government shutdown by eliminating the Senate filibuster — urging them to take an unprecedented step that GOP ...

The Senate on Thursday voted to terminate President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, after passing two resolutions seeking to ...

Our live coverage of the government shutdown has concluded for the day. Please scroll through the posts below to learn about Thursday’s developments as well as other news involving the Trump ...

Attorneys for former FBI Director James Comey argued in a filing Thursday that the indictment against their client is too ...

After meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea, US President Donald Trump will land back in the US on the 30th day of the government shutdown. Follow live news updates.

The Senate hearing for President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Casey Means, is postponed as the nominee goes into labor with her first child, according to a Senate Health, Education ...

The Health and Human Services secretary is standing at the opposite end of his late father’s anti-poverty legacy.

Trump administration briefed Republicans on Wednesday about US military strikes on suspected drug boats without telling Democratic members about the briefing, according to a top Senate Democrat and a ...

A group of rank-and-file senators increasingly frustrated by the weeks-long stalemate on Capitol Hill believe they have found ...