The government shutdown is poised to become the longest ever this week as the impasse between Democrats and Republicans has ...

Republicans and Democrats remained at a stalemate on the government shutdown over the weekend as it headed into its sixth week, with millions of Americans starting to lose food aid benefits and ...

The rulings came a day before the Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the nation’s biggest food aid ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the government shutdown enters its fourth week, Senate Republicans are headed to the White House on Tuesday — not for urgent talks on how to end it, but for a display of unity ...

But as President Donald Trump welcomed Republican senators for lunch in the newly renovated Rose Garden Club Tuesday he portrayed a different vision of America, as a unified GOP refuses to yield to ...

Cruz, a Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wants Nigeria to be designated a country of particular concern as one with “severe violations” of religious freedom.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has been trying to rally fellow evangelical Christians and urge Congress to designate Nigeria as a violator of religious freedom with unfounded claims of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats rejected for the 10th time Thursday a stopgap spending bill that would reopen the government, insisting they won’t back away from demands that Congress take up ...