The Census Bureau plans to test using U.S. postal workers as census takers in at least two locations next year during field ...

The government shutdown could mean travel delays, closed parks, and Social Security customer service disruptions.

Here are the key impacts of the shutdown, based on agencies’ most recent contingency plans approved by the White House.

A range of government services will be halted in a shutdown. National parks, airport security lines and clinical trials could ...

Congress typically passes annual spending bills, or appropriations, that expire at the end of the fiscal year, Sept. 30. When ...

Much of the federal government shut down Wednesday after Democrats in the Senate held firm to the party’s demands to fund ...

Washington voters who mail their ballots on Election Day this November, or even days in advance, could have their ballots thrown out as a result of compounding cost-cutting measures by the United ...