The three-time Oscar winner behind "Terms of Endearment" and "Broadcast News" is back with his first film in 15 years, the ...

The Senate has advanced a plan to end the government shutdown, after a group of Democrats broke with leadership to vote for the deal. We discuss what's in the deal and what to make of the politics of ...

Read full article: Virginia’s Veterans Parade brings hundreds to Downtown Roanoke to salute veterans Salem RidgeYaks reveal. MADRID – The longest U.S. government shutdown on record is doing more than ...

A career criminal is asking to swap prison time for a drug-treatment program nearly five years after his New Year’s Eve rampage in downtown San Francisco allegedly killed two pedestrians – reigniting ...

The U.S. Capitol building. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images) When the federal government ran out of money on Oct. 1, the consensus in Washington, D.C., was that it was likely the start of one of ...

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Not everyone who voted in Northern Virginia in Tuesday’s election has felt the impact of President Donald Trump’s efforts to reshape the federal government, but even many who ...

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear holds a full press conference following the deadly UPS cargo plane crash near Louisville’s Muhammad Ali International Airport. Senate Passes Measure to End Government ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown is poised to become the longest ever this week as the impasse between Democrats and Republicans has dragged into a new month. Millions of people stand to lose ...

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MINOOKA, Ill. — Bill Swick has a rare degenerative brain disease that inhibits his mobility and speech. Instead of the hassle of traveling an hour to a clinic in downtown Chicago to visit a speech ...

There has been a noticeable shift in the Senate over the last week, with lawmakers on either side of the aisle talking more about how to get out of the government shutdown. But it’s not blanket ...

The 13th Senate vote to end the shutdown failed 54-45. Most Democrats are still refusing to support any legislation that doesn’t restore cuts to Medicaid and extend expiring subsidies under the ...