For the second time in less than four months, a government shutdown is looming with a matter of hours until a Friday night deadline.

The U.S. Senate faces a vote on a government funding bill as a deadline to avoid a government shutdown fast approaches. Here's what to know.

Washington — Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms over Washington. Lawmakers have until the end of the ...

A day before a shutdown deadline, Senate Democrats are mounting a last-ditch protest over a Republican-led government funding bill that already passed the House but failed to slap any limits on ...

Democratic leader Chuck Schumer voted alongside Republicans to advance a House GOP spending bill that would keep the government open for another six months, beyond the midnight shutdown deadline.

Air traffic controllers at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport will be offered crisis counseling and additional ...

Democrats voted to end the filibuster, paving the way for Republicans to pass their funding bill before the shutdown deadline at midnight.

The latest struggle to pass the appropriations bill comes just a few months after Congress again stared down a government shutdown deadline. In December, they passed a last-minute deal to keep the ...