The United States federal government shut down at 12:01am East Coast time (04:01 GMT) on Wednesday after Congress failed to pass a new spending bill, forcing operations considered inessential to close ...

On March 27, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which aims to root out the “corrosive ideology” that casts American history in a ...

Washington — The U.S. government shut down Wednesday morning after President Trump and congressional Republicans at odds with Democrats over the path forward were unable to avert a lapse in federal ...

Travel back in time with me for a moment to 1981, the government shutdown. Two-hundred-forty-one-thousand federal employees were furloughed, and this is what it sounded like when you called the White ...

Oct. 8 (UPI) --Government shutdowns are the mark of some of the most tumultuous times on Capitol Hill in the United States, grinding government operations to a halt as lawmakers reach an impasse over ...

How did government in Los Angeles evolve? Joining host Larry Mantle is Martin Schiesel, professor emeritus of history at Cal State, LA. His specialty is studying both government and the LAPD in Los ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. It has become a familiar pattern: President Donald Trump says ...

In August 1993, President Bill Clinton signed the Government Performance and Results Act, a pioneering piece of legislation that required federal agencies to create strategic plans, set annual goals ...

Washington — The U.S. government shut down Wednesday, Oct. 1, after President Trump and congressional Republicans were unable to avert a lapse in federal funding. Republicans have rejected Democrats' ...

Washington — The U.S. government reopened Wednesday, Nov. 12, after a record-breaking 43-day-long shutdown that began Wednesday, Oct. 1, as President Trump and congressional Republicans were unable to ...