The Maryland Department of the Environment is backing a bill that would allow construction of chicken houses before it ...

A record 43-day shutdown last fall -- the longest in U.S. history -- heavily disrupted agencies and impacted millions of Americans. A partial government shutdown ensued for several days between the ...

The agency's Disaster Recovery Fund has a sufficient balance for the near term but a funding lapse will translate into longer ...

Federal funding of the $16 billion Gateway rail tunnel under the Hudson River will begin to flow again late on Friday, lawyers for the Trump administration told a federal judge, ending a four-month ...

Another partial government shutdown is all but guaranteed to begin Saturday, with lawmakers at an impasse. But this one is different. With congressional Democrats refusing to approve funding for the ...

Senators left Washington this week without a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), sending the federal ...

Lawmakers have left town after failing to pass the Homeland Security full-year funding bill, ensuring a partial shutdown of DHS beginning Saturday. This is the second time in ...

As Congress fails to reach a DHS funding deal, emergency managers are bracing for delayed payments, stalled grants and deeper uncertainty in an already strained federal disaster system.

A TSA official warned in testimony to Congress that employees may begin calling out sick or taking unscheduled absences as the shutdown progresses, which could lead to longer wait times for passengers ...

The former Greens leader’s appointment as CEO of the Australian Conservation Foundation raised eyebrows – but for him, the mission remains the same ...

The Department of Homeland Security is all but certain to run out of funding at the end of the day Friday as lawmakers left Capitol Hill Thursday with no deal in sight.

The Trump administration is expanding efforts to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans, two people familiar with the plans told NBC News.