President Donald Trump has determined that the US is in an “armed conflict” with the drug cartels his administration has ...

The government shutdown is on track to extend into a third week. Congress remains deadlocked on a funding plan, and the Senate isn’t scheduled to hold any votes until Tuesday.

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

Congressional Democrats are privately preparing to hold their position in the shutdown standoff for several more weeks if ...

Federal prosecutors are nearing a decision to bring possible perjury charges against former FBI Director James Comey, with a ...

In many ways, Janet Mills is the ideal Democratic recruit to take on Republican Sen. Susan Collins, a fifth-term moderate with a track record of beating well-funded challengers. Mills is a two-term ...

Congress is veering even closer to a government shutdown at midnight after a deadlocked Senate failed to pass a pair of ...

Dina Boluarte, the president of Peru, was removed from office on Thursday after a late-night congressional vote in which ...

President Donald Trump is considering not giving back pay to all federal employees once the government shutdown ends, ...

Aside from the routinely expiring debt ceiling, the practice of government shutdowns may be the most dramatic, unique and objectively silly quirks of how Washington, DC, works.