The 1977 shutdown, which held the record for the longest in U.S. history for just 12 months, was sparked by disagreements ...

María Corina Machado has long been the face of resistance to Venezuela's 26-year ruling party. Machado, the Venezuelan ...

The yen stabilised on Friday but was still headed for its steepest weekly drop in a year on Friday, as the chances of a ...

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to ...

Frustration is growing inside the GOP as the government shutdown drags on with no end in sight and as military members are ...

Political violence, made easier to carry out by the proliferation of guns, harms democracy by shifting the field of political ...

Chuck Schumer finally said the quiet part out loud. In an interview Wednesday about his shutdown strategy, he bragged, “Every ...

The amendment by Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Republican Sen. Todd Young of Indiana was approved by voice vote ...

The federal government shutdown is raising anxiety levels among service members and their families because those in uniform ...

President Trump’s long, avid embrace of social media has been eagerly adopted by his top aides, replacing longstanding ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday re-appointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, ...

The government has been shut down for more than a week, and Congress still appears deadlocked on a funding plan.