After canceling an earlier meeting, President Trump met with a bipartisan group of congressional leaders on Monday. Lawmakers have until the end of the day on Sept. 30 to avoid a government shutdown.

Extremists in both major U.S. political parties, MAGA Republicans and uncompromising Democrats, are widening the chasm between Americans to the detriment of the nation.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An impasse between Republican President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats has triggered the 15th U.S. government shutdown since 1981. Here is a look at what sparked the ...

“In this survey, over and over, we find independents tend to be closer to Democrats than to Republicans,” PRRI President ...

ATLANTA — The federal government remains shut down after lawmakers failed to pass a new spending bill before the midnight deadline Tuesday night. Negotiations are ongoing, but divisions between ...

A merican healthcare is on life support, and Republican policies now threaten to pull the plug.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) revealed what she called a “big difference” between her and President Donald Trump.

Two Democratic senators and one independent who caucuses with them crossed party lines to support the G.O.P. plan to keep government funding flowing. By Robert Jimison Reporting from the Capitol The ...

As the government shut down at midnight, bipartisan recriminations continued. The U.S. government shut down at midnight on Tuesday, beginning funding stoppages that are expected to ripple through ...

Virginia is the last Southern state that has not passed new abortion restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a ...