Since the mid-1970s, Washington’s budget fights have sometimes brought the federal government to a halt. Some closures ...

The ongoing government shutdown persists, but is it the longest the nation has seen? These are longest shutdowns in U.S.

Over the past five decades, the US government has shut down 21 times before shutting down Oct. 1, 2025. The longest ...

In the 1970s, former United States Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon signed a proclamation establishing Sept. 24 as National Good Neighbor Day. The altruistic observance was the ...

Six years later, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel to retake ...

Republican President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden face off on Tuesday in a televised presidential debate, part of a 60-year-old tradition marked by some of the most memorable moments of modern ...

Since 1976, Congress and the White House have faced off over budgets and brought the U.S. government to a near halt more than 20 times.

National-party conflicts over age, experience, and ideology are playing out in the Maine Senate primary between Janet Mills ...

Over the past five decades, the US government has shut down 21 times before shutting down Oct. 1, 2025. The longest government shutdown, which lasted 35 days, occurred from December 2018 to January ...

Mass shootings using an assault weapon resulted in nearly six times as many people shot and more than twice as many killed, ...

The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.9% in September, from 8.4% in August, a big drop that in normal times would be welcome news for a presidential incumbent seeking reelection in just over a month.

Wall St. Insights As a result of scandals, over the years ethical standards for presidents have been more clearly defined in ...