As the government shutdown enters its third week, "Saturday Night Live" joked federal furloughs would have left the "Gravity" astronauts reliant on janitors in Houston to keep them alive. With just ...

When operations depend on government staffing and appropriations, fragility grows. When operations depend on the private ...

Blame was being cast on all sides on the first day of the shutdown. A vote to end the government shutdown failed earlier Wednesday, as Democrats in the Senate held firm to the party’s demands to fund ...

Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy has voiced his "strong disappointment" after his attempt to block lawmakers' pay during a government shutdown was blocked from making it into the latest ...