WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has built up a fleet of warships near Venezuela, including the largest U.S. aircraft carrier, as American forces keep blowing up small boats accused of ...

The Declaration proclaimed all men created equal, yet the new nation’s economy depended on enslaved labor in the South and indentured servitude in the North. This contradiction would shape American ...

We break down the impacts to parks and their staff during the 43-day shutdown and the outlook for the months ahead. On Nov. 12, Congress reached a budget agreement to bring an end to the longest ...

President Donald Trump signed legislation to fund the government again — putting an end to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Trump signaled Monday the government would open soon, as ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

Weeks of uncertainty during the longest government shutdown in American history have left some states struggling to issue payments to food stamp recipients. By Isabela Espadas Barros Leal and Tony ...

The deadly US military strikes against alleged drug-carrying vessels in international waters mark a quantum leap and an aggressive escalation in US counternarcotics policy, in which drug trafficking ...

The ongoing government shutdown isn’t just the longest in American history. It’s likely the most damaging, too. Historically, the economic damage from shutdowns is fleeting, quickly reversing when the ...

The federal government shutdown entered its 36th day Tuesday evening, becoming the longest in U.S. history. The shutdown has now extended beyond the 35-day shutdown in late 2018 and early 2019, which ...

The 2025 government shutdown is hours away from breaking a record to be the longest-ever in history. The prior record was held by the 2018-2019 government shutdown during President Donald Trump's ...

We are in the second longest government shutdown in U.S. history, and with the next Senate vote to reopen the government unclear, the 2025 shutdown would become the longest shutdown ever should it ...

This is officially the second-longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The federal government shut down as of 12:01 a.m. Oct. 1. At its start, up to 750,000 federal workers could have been ...