Senate Majority Leader John Thune told ABC News Live's Linsey Davis that federal workers will get back pay once the ...

China's Premier Li Qiang plans to visit North Korea this week, marking the highest-level Chinese visit since 2019 ...

Jane Goodall, the famed primatologist, anthropologist and conservationist, has died, according to the institute she founded.

The last federal shutdown ran for 35 days, from Dec. 22, 2018, to Jan. 25, 2019, making it the longest closure in U.S.

The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, or GEFTA, guarantees back pay for employees furloughed or required to work unpaid during any “lapse in appropriations that begins on or after Dec. 22,” ...

Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo, which receive federal funding, are closing temporarily amid the federal government shutdown.

Here are some frequently asked questions about how a government shutdown impacts travel: Transportation Security Administration workers at airport checkpoints will continue to work -- without pay -- ...

Air traffic controllers, who are required to work without pay during the shutdown, are credited with helping end the most recent shutdown in 2019, when a series of absences snarled flights and ...

The McStay family disappeared in Southern California in 2010 and were found buried in the Mojave Desert three years later.

China has reported its factory activity shrank for a sixth straight month in September, the longest slump since 2019 ...

Houses of worship have faced various types of attacks throughout history, but such assaults are not relics of the past ...

The Marineland park near Niagara Falls has asked the Canadian government for emergency funding to feed and care for its ...