The Federal Reserve is expected to cut its short-term rate Wednesday for the second time this year despite an increasingly cloudy view of the economy it is trying to influence.

In 2013, the government shut down for 16 days under President Barack Obama amid Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable ...

A federal judge in San Francisco has indefinitely blocked the Trump administration from firing federal workers during the ...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., left, talk with reporters in Statuary Hall on the third day of the government shutdown, at the Capitol in ...

Here’s a question about the shutdown submitted by an Associated Press reader, G: Is it legal to fire furloughed federal workers during a shutdown? This question has prompted a fierce conversation, and ...

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 ...

The federal government shutdown is nearing the one-month mark, causing widespread effects for millions of Americans. On ...