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Arizona and Utah will keep the iconic national parks in those states open if a federal government shutdown cuts off funding nationwide.

State and local agencies that distributed federal aid to renters facing eviction during the pandemic are now scrambling to claw back millions of dollars in overpayments.

The White House on Friday directed federal agencies to get ready for a shutdown after House Republicans left town for the weekend with no viable plan to keep the government funded and avert politically and economically costly disruption of federal services.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy is trying to accomplish what at times seems impossible. The Republican speaker is working furiously to convince his colleagues to come together to pass a conservative bill to keep the federal government open. But it has little chance of actually preventing a federal shutdown. Whatever Republicans come up with in the House is expected to be rejected...

The court ruled that Gershkovich, who has been detained since March, must stay in jail on espionage charges until the end of November.

The Bipartisan Policy Center modeled the Treasury Department’s cash flow, noting what day bills are paid as the U.S. tries to raise the debt ceiling.

The National Archives has been called more than 80 times in the past decade-plus about classified materials found in the papers of former members of Congress and other U.S. officials. That tally cited in newly released congressional testimony underscores the weaknesses in how the government tracks and safeguards its most important secrets. Archives officials said most of the calls came...

Research shows women earn more when they don’t have to disclose their previous pay in job interviews.

The new rule would affect eight military bases, including three that are tied to the B-21 Raider, the nation’s future stealth bomber.

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst and Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan will introduce a new bill that would cut the soaring cost of minting America’s coins.

In addition to $8.1 billion for NASA’s lunar Artemis program, Biden also aims to allocate funds for a mission to return Mars rock and soil samples.

President Joe Biden unveiled his proposed federal budget, with a plan he says will cut deficits by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade.

The White House is giving U.S. federal agencies 30 days to delete popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices amid growing concerns about security.

Treasury will exhaust its emergency measures sometime between July and September unless Congress raises the debt ceiling, the Congressional Budget Office says.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says the first U.S. missile fired at an unidentified object over Lake Huron missed the target and “landed harmlessly” in the water, but a second one successfully hit. The acknowledgment Tuesday by Gen. Mark Milley of the errant strike comes amid questions about whether the shootdown of aerial objects that military officials...

If you’re wondering why all of a sudden we’re hearing about these unidentified objects, to put it simply, it’s because the U.S. government is monitoring our airspace more closely since that suspected Chinese spy balloon was spotted.

Your tax refund could be delayed if your return has errors or is incomplete, among other reasons.

The U.S. government’s highway safety agency said Thursday it will send teams to investigate two November crashes in California and Ohio involving Teslas that may have been operating on automated driving systems.

Lawmakers should be prepared to act quickly to pass a resolution funding the federal government for one week as negotiators continue to work on a longer-term spending bill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday. Schumer described weekend talks over a funding package as “positive and productive conversations, enough that both sides are moving forward to reach a deal, even…