Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner in the New York City mayor’s race, and Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, have a ...

The 1977 shutdown, which held the record for the longest in U.S. history for just 12 months, was sparked by disagreements ...

María Corina Machado has long been the face of resistance to Venezuela's 26-year ruling party. Machado, the Venezuelan ...

The yen stabilised on Friday but was still headed for its steepest weekly drop in a year on Friday, as the chances of a ...

Affected agencies include the departments of Homeland Security, Education, Energy and Health and Human Services, among others ...

Political violence, made easier to carry out by the proliferation of guns, harms democracy by shifting the field of political ...

Chuck Schumer finally said the quiet part out loud. In an interview Wednesday about his shutdown strategy, he bragged, “Every ...

• Shutdown-related firings begin: White House budget chief Russell Vought announced the government has started firing federal workers as the shutdown drags on. So far, it appears the Departments of ...

The Trump administration has begun firing federal workers, the White House’s budget chief announced Friday, as Republicans look to maximize pressure on the Democratic Party more than a week into the ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday re-appointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, ...

The amendment by Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Republican Sen. Todd Young of Indiana was approved by voice vote ...

President Trump on Friday followed through on his long-standing threat to layoff federal workers during the government shutdown.