Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But the truth is that the push to align scholarship with government interests is not new. Throughout the 20th century, the ...

WASHINGTON — For the first time in seven years, the federal government could shut down. As of Friday morning, Republicans and Democrats are still in a blame-casting game that has lasted since Senate ...

Melissa Quinn is a politics reporter for CBSNews.com, where she covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. Republicans have rejected Democrats' push to permanently ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Capitol Dome is seen the evening after the Senate failed to pass a funding bill to end the government shutdown at the U.S ...

The current government shutdown has become the second-longest in 50 years, prompted by Congress' failure to pass a funding bill. Here's a glance at the recent history of government shutdowns. It's ...

At midnight Oct. 1, the U.S. government shut down after Congress failed to agree on funding. Democrats and Republicans were deadlocked over health care subsidies and spending cuts, leaving hundreds of ...

On March 27, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which aims to root out the “corrosive ideology” that casts American history in a ...

Oct. 8 (UPI) --Government shutdowns are the mark of some of the most tumultuous times on Capitol Hill in the United States, grinding government operations to a halt as lawmakers reach an impasse over ...

Washington — The U.S. government reopened Wednesday, Nov. 12, after a record-breaking 43-day-long shutdown that began Wednesday, Oct. 1, as President Trump and congressional Republicans were unable to ...