The United States federal government shut down at 12:01am East Coast time (04:01 GMT) on Wednesday after Congress failed to pass a new spending bill, forcing operations considered inessential to close ...

Washington — The U.S. government reopened Wednesday, Nov. 12, after a record-breaking 43-day-long shutdown that began Wednesday, Oct. 1, as President Trump and congressional Republicans were unable to ...

Oct. 8 (UPI) --Government shutdowns are the mark of some of the most tumultuous times on Capitol Hill in the United States, grinding government operations to a halt as lawmakers reach an impasse over ...

Two women walk past National Guardsmen seated on a bench outside a shop during rioting in Detroit, Mich., July 27 1967. Credit - UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images In the span of two weeks, three ...

The history of government shutdowns began in earnest in the nineteen-eighties. Even then, they were typically short and often revolved around a handful of issues. Not that there even was an issue all ...

The opinions expressed below are Jon Keller's, not those of WBZ-TV, CBS News or Paramount, a Skydance Corporation. The current government shutdown is the 11th time the federal government has halted ...

Between over a month of unpaid work and dangerous staffing, air traffic controllers are burned out. But they still juggle ...

Sixty percent of Americans say the federal government should not control the content of exhibits in museums that get taxpayer funding, according to a new survey that was published on Tuesday. The ...