The US government shutdown entered day 28 as the Senate again failed to pass a Republican-backed funding bill to reopen federal operations. With SNAP benefits at risk, Democratic-led states have sued ...

Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused climate change, according to a new report by scientists in Europe. The ...

Senate Democrats have voted 13 times against reopening the government, insisting they need Trump and Republicans to negotiate with them first.

The last government shutdown, before the current one, was also the longest. It happened during Trump's first term and stretched from Dec. 22, 2018, to Jan. 25, 2019, lasting 35 days.

HOSTAGE SQUARE, TEL AVIV — As Donald Trump arrived in Tel Aviv Monday to take a victory lap at the Israeli Knesset, in the streets of this traumatized city, it was a love fest for the American ...