“The government is closed because of the irrationality that is going on on the other side of the Capitol,” Majority Leader Reid, D-Nev., said.
Active-duty military personnel will continue to report to work, and U.S. embassies and consulates around the world will remain functional.
Agencies are told to execute an "orderly shutdown" as Congress stays in session past midnight.
Obama says the health care law is coming, shutdown or not.
The new president is mulling something the Iranians haven't done since the 1979 revolution. But they may have to use old planes to do it.
The clock is ticking toward the first shutdown in 17 years as the House and Senate fight over conditions to fund the federal government.
A one-week stopgap bill is said to be one of the strategies Republicans are considering, but it looks like that measure is already dead.
Pakistani diplomats (as well as Sharif’s office) denied the accusations.
Fears of a government shutdown, weakening inflation data in Europe and underperforming factories in China lowered investor sentiment.
Less than 24 hours before “Breaking Bad” was to come to an end, star Aaron Paul appeared on “Saturday Night Live” to poke some lighthearted fun at the series.
Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., appeared on CBS News' "Face the Nation" to discuss the fight in Congress over Federal government funding and finding common ground over Obamacare. Watch what he had to say here.
The Republican U.S. senator from Texas cast the government funding showdown as an attack on the military by Democrats.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, blasts Senate Democrats for waiting until Monday to vote.
Will the U.S. Senate accept the House Republicans’ bill to delay Obamacare?
The House GOP met on a Saturday to discuss their plan to hash out terms for a bill to avoid a government shutdown.
Wise investors should keep one eye on U.S. budget / debt talks in Washington and one on the price of oil.
The Obama administration has a difficult task in coming up with an energy policy that can satisfy many.
The government shutdowns in late 1995 and early 1996 inflicted considerable economic costs, as federal workers were hit with delays in pay.
Friday’s phone call was the first time that American and Iranian leaders spoke since the Islamic revolution.
Whatever Republicans in Congress do in an attempt to kill Obamacare is not going to work, the president said.
The "Monsanto Protection Act" is set to expire at the end of this month after an amendment was approved to remove it from a Senate spending bill.
A new Pew poll shows 65% of Americans favor building the controversial pipeline, and TransCanada may not take no for an answer, says Canada's PM.