Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins ...

Who gets paid during a federal shutdown? The president and Congress continue to get paid, as their salaries are ...

Here’s a question about the shutdown submitted by an Associated Press reader, Eli B.: What happens if essential federal ...

Shutdowns of the federal government usually don’t leave much economic damage. But the one that started Wednesday looks ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) A federal ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of the U.S. adults who have experienced major flooding in the past five years think climate change was at least a partial cause, according to polling conducted earlier this year ...

The move is being seen by many as a strongarm tactic to pressure Democrat lawmakers into budging and reopening the government ...

Timothy Short is an AP government teacher, part of the Global Ecology Program, at Poolesville High School. He was interviewed at the school Nov. 15. <B>This is your seventh year at Poolesville what ...