The United States has seen its highest ever number of new COVID-19 cases in the past two days, keeping the pandemic a top election issue as Vice President Mike Pence travels the country to campaign ...

Senior Republicans were spotted fine dining on the first night of the U.S. government shutdown, which has seen hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed. Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso ...

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For Ted Gostomski, a Wisconsin-based biologist studying the Great Lakes region, the federal government shutdown adds to the uncertainty he has felt about his job since President Donald Trump took ...

Here is where we need to get to know the Antideficiency Act, the federal law that lays out which government duties must continue even if Congress hasn’t appropriated funding for them. It's also the ...

Here’s a question about the shutdown submitted by an Associated Press reader, Eli B.: What happens if essential federal workers don’t show up for work? Here is where we need to get to know the ...

On Sept. 23, 99% of Simi Valley union workers voted to authorize a strike if needed to oppose what they believe are the city's unfair labor practices. The local Service Employees International Union ...

Now into its second week, the US government shutdown has started impacting federal workers, prompting some to take out new loans to help make ends meet. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees have ...