Congressional Democrats on Wednesday evening introduced their own proposal to prevent a government shutdown at the end of the ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that he has canceled a meeting to discuss government funding with senior ...

The White House directive seeks to place the blame for any shutdown squarely on Democrats, who have rejected the Republican plan for a “clean” extension of funding through November 21. It notes that ...

Good evening. The Supreme Court just allowed the Trump administration to unilaterally freeze more than $4 billion in foreign aid, delivering another win for President Trump in his push for more power ...

The General Services Administration, which manages offices and real estate for the federal government, has reportedly asked hundreds of employees who were laid off during the Trump administration’s ...

With a government shutdown deadline just six days away, Republican and Democratic congressional leaders are doing plenty of talking — just not with each other. That leaves the path to avoid a shutdown ...

Happy Thursday! Today, 9/25/2025, is the last “perfect square day” — in which the month, day and year are all square numbers — in most of our lifetimes. The next perfect square year won’t be until ...

Fact check: Sticking together still won’t get Republicans to the magic number.

To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves. Our scoring system is ...

The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals. Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...