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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are in the second longest government shutdown in U.S. history, and with the next Senate vote to reopen the government unclear, the 2025 shutdown would become the longest shutdown ever should it ...

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 government shutdown is days away from breaking the record for the longest in the country’s history. The shutdown, which began on Oct. 1, is already the second longest ever by a significant margin ...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — A colonel in an elite military unit in Madagascar said Tuesday that the armed forces are taking power in the Indian Ocean nation in what appeared to confirm that ...

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