Though most Senate Democrats voted Friday to block the GOP’s stopgap funding bill before the midnight deadline to fund the government, it was not enough. Minority leader Chuck Schumer and nine ...

The Senate passed a House-approved government funding bill that averts a government shutdown that was set to be triggered at the end of the day Friday. The Senate passed a House-approved ...

So this long and terrible week is finally over. Chuck Schumer got what he wanted and there will be no government shutdown. We’ll never know what would have happened had it gone the other way ...

Despite a federal judge ordering deportation flights of Venezuelans to cease, video shows more deportees arriving in El Salvador.

averting the threat of a government shutdown following a contentious week in Washington. The signing came after the Senate passed the bill in a 54 to 46 vote, with one Republican opposing it and ...

The Trump administration is looking at closing nearly 30 overseas embassies and consulates as it eyes significant changes to its diplomatic presence abroad, according to an internal State Department ...

Two days out from a government shutdown, Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats find themselves in a serious jam. But some of them are starting to hint at how they might get out of it.

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Investors were adding a potential government shutdown to their growing list of worries as Friday's deadline to strike a deal to fund the government looms, said Gennadiy Goldberg, head of U.S ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a Republican-led spending bill Friday hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President ...

The risk of a U.S. government shutdown could weaken the dollar given the currency's sensitivity to the U.S. economic outlook, ING analyst Francesco Pesole said in a note. Senate Minority Leader ...