President Donald Trump's approval rating is creeping back up amid the first government shutdown in six years, polling shows. An RMG Research poll of 3,000 registered voters, conducted September 23 ...

Trump’s White House can’t defend the shutdown — so it’s dehumanizing immigrants again The Trump White House has a simple — and dishonest — explanation for why the government is shut down: Democrats ...

The average Social Security benefit for retired workers was $2,005 in June 2025. That figure would increase to $2,059 in the event of a 2.7% COLA, meaning the average retired worker would collect an ...

The federal government remains shut down, with the Senate struggling to find the 60 votes needed to reopen it and no negotiations taking place between the leaders of the two parties.

Kristi Noem says she was denied entry to an Illinois government building for a bathroom break while federal agents arrested protesters at a nearby immigration facility.

CNN political commentator Van Jones shared his ‘concern’ about Democrats amid the government shutdown on ‘Real Time’ Friday.

Re “Trump’s unusual call to military chiefs,” Page A2, Oct. 1: In a dazzling display of the Dunning-Kruger effect, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, a former major in the Army National Guard who ...

Hamas responded Friday to President Donald Trump’s proposed plan to end the war in the Gaza Strip, agreeing to give up power and release all remaining hostages, but the group said that other elements ...

President Donald Trump believed the government shutdown would deliver Republicans a swift and decisive political victory. But with the stalemate now likely to spill into a second week, that ...

They are stuck making an artificial argument and undercutting their own case that what they are demanding is worth shutting down the government over.

Senators were headed back to the Capitol for another vote on government funding on the third day of the shutdown, but there has been no sign of any real progress.

This story is sponsored by State Historic Preservation Office. When the federal government shut down on Oct. 1, Utah was already prepared to keep its national parks open led by efforts of the Utah ...