Syedah Asghar

After weeks of different Democrats taking different shutdown approaches, Democrats emerged from an hours-long meeting on Thursday advocating a new strategy: Unity.

President Donald Trump urged Republicans to end the filibuster to end the longest funding lapse in U.S. history.

Democrats weren't impressed with Senate Majority Leader John Thune's offer to vote on extending Obamacare subsidies in exchange for reopening government.

The U.S. government officially shut down at midnight after Congress and the White House failed to reach an agreement on how to extend federal funding.

Some House and Senate lawmakers are requesting that their paychecks be withheld as millions of federal workers prepare to go without pay.

The Republican House passed a bill to avoid a government shutdown, sending it to the Senate, which is expected to reject it ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline.

A debate over free speech is raging in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination.

Nearly a week after Charlie Kirk's assassination, many Republican members of Congress are publicly grieving and casting blame on Democrats and the media.

WASHINGTON — Jeffrey Epstein's estate has turned over additional documents to the House Oversight Committee, including a previously redacted name from the late sex offender's now-notorious 50th birthday book, according to a letter obtained by NBC News

The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has members of Congress afraid for their own safety and canceling some political events.

Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers traveled to Capitol Hill this week to implore Trump and Congress to release all of the government’s files related to his investigation.