Republican congressional leaders said Wednesday they will not negotiate with Democrats while they hold government funding "hostage" for their "radical" demands of $1.5 trillion in health care and other spending.

The Trump administration said Wednesday that it was putting a hold on roughly $18 billion to fund a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey and the city's expanded Second Avenue subway project because of the government shutdown.

Salt Lake City, Utah; Denver; and Fort Myers, Florida, were hot places to settle. California lost some of its appeal.

After Paola Freites was allowed into the U.S. in 2024, she and her husband settled in Florida, drawn by warm temperatures, a large Latino community and the ease of finding employment and housing.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order vowing to use all measures including U.S. military action to defend the energy-rich nation of Qatar - though it remains unclear just what weight the pledge will carry.

Late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday night tore into President Trump over the government shutdown while also criticizing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for his speech decrying "fat generals" in the U.S. military. "I was recently the victim of a government shutdown," Kimmel, who was reinstated last week ABC after a brief suspension. "They are...

Vice President Vance said he can have a beard in his current role but that he was clean-shaven while in the military, defending Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for declaring soldiers have to shave their facial hair. Hegseth told the U.S. military’s senior-most officers Tuesday that he no longer wants to see “fat generals and admirals”...

Senate centrists in both parties are trying to put together a deal to reopen the federal government. A group of them huddled on the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon, after Democrats voted for the second time in two days to block a House-passed stopgap funding measure. Three members of the Democratic caucus voted for the House-passed...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday backed President Trump’s plans to use cities he deems dangerous because of their crime levels as a “training ground” for the military, though he seemed to draw a distinction in suggesting it would be National Guard members taking part in such actions.  “I can tell you what‘s in...

Groundbreaking chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall has died, the institute bearing her name said Wednesday.