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For the first time in close to seven years, Congress failed to reach a budget agreement in time for the new fiscal year. As a result,…

Sean Combs to be sentencedSean “Diddy” Combs will appear before a federal judge in Manhattan on Friday to be sentenced following his conviction earlier this year…

Purdue University is ending its GEAR UP program after the Trump administration canceled a $34.9 million federal grant to support its activities, WFYI reported. The program provided…

new video loaded: Republicans and Democrats in Deadlock Over Federal FundingtranscriptBacktranscriptRepublicans and Democrats in Deadlock Over Federal FundingDueling proposals to end the government shutdown failed in…

An estimated 750,000 federal employees are furloughed as a result of the first federal government shutdown since 2018.Many have been “on edge for months”, according to…

Before the government shutdown began Wednesday, many agencies published contingency plans — routine frameworks that are typically updated before a shutdown. These documents included details about…

Lisa Cook, the US Federal Reserve governor, will keep her job for now, despite Donald Trump’s extraordinary bid to remove her from the central bank’s board…

At the Department of Housing and Urban Development, employees were instructed to set an out-of-office message that reads, “The federal government’s spending authority expired at 11:59…

Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that Pfizer, the prescription drug manufacturer, has agreed to offer medications at “heavily discounted prices” through a website operated by the…

If the government shuts down on Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of workers will be sent home without pay, disrupting a wide range of federal programs. Despite…