Fact check: Do government shutdowns cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars?
California Rep. Sara Jacobs said government shutdowns in 2013 and 2018 "cost our economy billions of dollars each." ...
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Who Is Lara Trump and What’s With the Quashed Senate Rumors?
Everything to know about Eric’s wife, and why she publicly turned down a Senate appointment she hadn’t been offered.
Brief government shutdown ushered in before Christmas as Senate works to advance House bill
The Senate is on track to pass a stopgap bill after its passage in the House earlier Friday. However, the upper chamber ran ...
Government shutdown highlights: Congress votes to keep government open, sending bill to Biden
Follow live updates and the latest news as government funding is set to expire on Saturday if Congress fails to pass a ...
NCAA president calling on congress to ban player prop bets on college athletes
The NCAA president is pushing for lawmakers to ban player prop bets as he believes that the practice does "more harm than ...
Carry-On ending explained: What does the mysterious Traveller want?
To tie up loose ends, the Traveller orders the Watcher to kill Nora and before Ethan can get there, he's caught by Detective Elena Cole (Danielle Deadwyler). She knows that a nerve agent is at the ...
What is the debt ceiling? Here's why Trump wants Congress to abolish it before he takes office
President-elect Donald Trump added a wrinkle to negotiations over a deal to fund the government when he called for an ...
Will the Supreme Court save TikTok? What's ahead in the final legal showdown.
TikTok has a tough task of convincing the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court's ruling that national security risks ...
Here’s how Congress is supposed to fund the US government, but never does
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What does the US attorney general actually do? A law professor explains
The combined political and legal roles and responsibilities of the US attorney general can create conflicts. Some attorneys ...
Senate Republicans weigh in on new government funding challenges as clock ticks
During late votes Wednesday night, Senate Republicans weighed in on the current government funding situation with a little more than 48 hours until a shutdown.
What federal workers would lose pay during a government shutdown? What to know
The fate of hundreds of thousands of federal employees and the work they do rests on Congress' ability to extend government ...