Senators are working through the weekend for the first time since the government shutdown began more than a month ago, hoping to find bipartisan resolution that has so far eluded them as government workers have gone unpaid,

Senate Republicans and Democrats have rejected alternating proposals to fund the federal government and end the record 38-day government shutdown.

President Donald Trump is hosting leaders of five Central Asian countries at the White House as he intensifies his hunt for rare earth metals needed for high-tech devices, including smartphones, electric vehicles and fighter jets.

A top economist in the Trump administration offered a fresh warning Friday about the record-setting government shutdown’s damaging effects, as the Senate struggled to make a deal to end the closure and airports began to reduce flights.

The new proposal would have extended Affordable Care Act subsidies for one year and formed a bipartisan committee to tackle health care reforms.

At least four states say they have begun issuing November SNAP benefits as of Friday afternoon, despite the Trump administration actively fighting a court order requiring the gove

It’s Day 37 of the government shutdown, and a solution isn’t yet in sight as President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats remain far apart. Yet there are some signs of movement and, critically,