From airports and paycheques to loans and national parks, even a partial shutdown can disrupt daily life far beyond ...

The Senate passed a measure to avert a shutdown on Friday. But with the House on recess, funding for broad stretches of the federal government has technically lapsed.

The United States is once again staring down a government funding deadline, and this time, the flashpoint is a fatal shooting hundreds of miles from Washington. After federal immigration agents shot ...

Members of Congress have said they will investigate whether the US military broke the law by allegedly killing two survivors of a strike on a suspected drug trafficking vessel in the Caribbean. The ...