A new report reveals that the U.S. government's statistical system is struggling due to staff layoffs, reduced funding, and ...

The survey findings, shared exclusively with NBC News, also point to which local institutions help reduce political strife.

Our live coverage of the government shutdown has ended for the day. Read more here or in the posts below. The American Federation of Government Employees and the American Federation of State, County ...

Virginia Eubanks is a journalist, writer and political scientist at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her most recent book is Automating Inequality (2018). In Rewiring Democracy, ...

As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching. By Carl Hulse Reporting from Capitol Hill The ...

• Shutdown-related firings begin: White House budget chief Russell Vought announced the government has started firing federal workers as the shutdown drags on. So far, it appears the Departments of ...

The resignation of Bulgaria's government on Thursday puts an end to an increasingly unpopular coalition but is likely to ...

Senators in both parties are bracing for another government shutdown next year after Republicans blocked a proposal to extend expiring health insurance subsidies, the issue that triggered the ...

On a special episode (first released on October 8, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Eight days into the government shutdown and Democrats and Republicans appear to be no closer to reaching a deal. USA ...

The 2025 government shutdown is hours away from breaking a record to be the longest-ever in history. The prior record was held by the 2018-2019 government shutdown during President Donald Trump's ...

The U.S. Capitol building. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images) When the federal government ran out of money on Oct. 1, the consensus in Washington, D.C., was that it was likely the start of one of ...

Tens of thousands of people have joined the latest massive protests across Bulgaria, accusing the government of widespread corruption.