At least 4,000 civil-service workers were notified Oct. 10 they were being laid off, rather than simply furloughed as in past ...

The shutdown started three weeks ago when Senate Democrats refused to back a seven-week spending bill, using the end of ...

The federal government is currently shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting ...

Government shutdowns have become a recurring feature of US politics, the product of partisan standoffs over spending that ...

The political pain of the U.S. government shutdown is deepening as the impasse heads toward a third week, marked by ...