Americans' emotional divide over federal government reaches historic levels with only one-in-five trusting government to do ...

Welcome back, members of the US House of Representatives. The world has changed since you’ve been gone. But the House has remained stubbornly clamped shut by House Speaker Mike Johnson, in a ...

Party identity is shifting under President Trump, and the process is affecting both parties.

• SNAP recipients in limbo — again: The Supreme Court last night let the Trump administration pause full SNAP food aid benefits for now, leaving recipients once again scrambling to make ends meet. • ...

President Trump formally brought the longest government shutdown in history to an end on Wednesday night when he signed a funding bill to reopen the government, which had been shuttered for a ...

Stay up to date with live coverage of the government shutdown Tuesday as the House notified leaders to expect a vote Wednesday afternoon on a bill to reopen the government. It will come after the ...

Attorneys at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP examine the federal preemption questions raised by recent state laws ...

The U.S. Senate reached a tentative agreement on Nov. 9 aimed at reopening the federal government and funding several agencies and programs, including food aid and veterans' benefits. The agreed-to ...

They were two of seven Democratic senators — and an independent who caucuses with them — who joined Republicans Sunday in a vote to end the shutdown, allowing the majority party a filibuster-proof 60 ...

On its face, the likely beginning of the path to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history is a major Democratic capitulation. Most congressional Democrats were against the deal that eight ...