The White House budget office is telling federal agencies to prepare plans for mass firings in the event of a government shutdown – an apparent threat by the Trump administration amid a standoff with ...

The author reflects on how current events in the U.S. have given him a new perspective on the German public during the Third Reich. He notes that despite media coverage of political turmoil, his daily ...

It is easy to lose count of how many times the government has shut down or come close to it over the past three decades because, well, it has happened so many times over that timeframe. But for the ...

Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said the 2025 government shutdown is a “complete reversal” from previous ones because most shutdown fights in the past had Republicans ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. government's human resources agency is rushing to shut down and drastically shrink entire departments in what sources familiar with the actions say will serve ...

With 2025 barely underway, 75% of surveyed U.S. workers said they are experiencing low mood due to politics and current events, according to a March 17 report from Modern Health, a workplace mental ...

Coast-to-coast opposition to upheaval in President Donald Trump's second term took shape Saturday at more than 1,200 events organized by Democratic activists. Protesters across the United States took ...