Eight Senate Democrats broke with their party leaders to vote in favor of a House-passed continuing resolution Sunday night, taking a major step toward ending the government shutdown. The House bill ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The partial government shutdown is vastly different from the record closure in the fall. That is mostly because this shutdown, which started Saturday, does not include the whole of ...

The Senate passed the first stage of a deal that would end the U.S. government shutdown, which began on Oct. 1. A procedural measure that allows other votes on the agreement to be held on Monday was ...

A Sunday night Senate deal may be on the verge of resolving the longest government shutdown on record — after a group of moderate Democrats dropped their key demand — a guaranteed extension of ...

A bipartisan spending deal couldn’t clear Congress in time to prevent a lapse in federal funding for some departments. The ...