An initial batch of proposed legislation was unveiled Friday, revealing some of lawmakers' personal priorities ahead of a legislative session that will begin later this month. The House and Senate are ...

The deal does not include a provision to raise the debt limit. After days of heated negotiations on Capitol Hill and eleventh-hour interference from President-elect Donald Trump and his ally Elon ...

The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Sunday rejected a police request to obtain access to the phones of several anti-government demonstrators who were arrested on Saturday night, saying that the ...

Here’s something you won’t hear from Congress, President Biden, President-elect Trump, or the media: There has never been a government shutdown. That’s right. It has never happened.

French Prime Minister François Bayrou on Monday unveiled a new government tasked with getting the country’s finances under control and leading it out of its political crisis, but several key ...

WASHINGTON − Congress passed a bipartisan spending bill to avert a government shutdown that would have left thousands of federal employees furloughed just days before the winter holidays.

Update, 12:45 a.m. Saturday: The U.S. government avoided a prolonged government shutdown after the House and Senate approved a short-term funding bill, sending it to President Biden's desk for his ...

Frostadottir, 36, becomes Iceland's youngest PM Leaders of all three governing parties are women Government expected to hold referendum on joining EU Government to focus on cutting inflation ...

The Senate voted 85-11 to approve a short-term spending bill to fund the government until March 14. The measure, signed hours later by President Biden, had overwhelming bipartisan support in both ...

President-elect Donald Trump blamed President Biden on Friday for the impending fiscal cliff-dive and suggested the government should shut down “now” — even as congressional Republicans are ...

By Noah Weiland Reporting from Washington There have been more than 20 gaps in federal government funding since 1976, with varying levels of shutdowns that have affected agencies — and the ...

The federal government is on a precipice, teetering on the edge of a possible government shutdown ─ just days before Christmas and the start of Hanukkah. No one expected to be here. Republicans ...