Even while warning about national security and human rights abuse, the U.S. government across five Republican and Democratic ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown is poised to become the longest ever this week as the impasse between Democrats and Republicans has dragged into a new month. Millions of people could lose ...

The pressure to end the second-longest federal government shutdown is taking on new urgency this week. Millions of Americans ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats rejected for the 10th time Thursday a stopgap spending bill that would reopen the ...

Jacqueline Chapman is a retired school aide who relies on a $630 monthly Social Security check to get by. She was navigating ...

The poll finds that 54% of U.S. adults call the shutdown a “major issue,” with just 11% saying it is “not a problem at all.” Democrats are most likely, at 69%, to see it as a major problem, but 59% of ...

Kamala Harris sounds like a party elder and a future candidate at the same time. In an interview Friday with The Associated Press, the former vice president says she's staying in touch with ...

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., on Monday. (Jose Luis Magana/AP) The U.S. federal government shutdown is still ongoing and will drag on at least into next week, with both houses of ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats rejected for the 10th time Thursday a stopgap spending bill that would reopen the government, insisting they won’t back away from demands that Congress take up health ...

With the government shutdown now in its third week, a sign turns away tourists at the entrance to the Capitol Visitor Center, in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the government shutdown drags on with no end in sight, a new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans see it as a significant problem — and all of the major players are being blamed ...