Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean confronted Speaker Mike Johnson right off the House floor on Tuesday over their parties’ funding standoff hours before the government shut down.

The administration signaled Wednesday it would follow through on its threat to lay off federal workers during a shutdown.

The federal government’s shutdown entered Day 2 on Thursday as neither side showed signs of budging amid their impasse over ...

Pennsylvania maintains a registry of people convicted and suspected of child abuse and neglect to protect kids. But people get added to the database without a chance to defend themselves.