Professional python hunters spotted something strange happening in a South Florida pond. They soon realized they might be the ...

This story is part of WTOP’s series “Five stories that defined the DC-area in 2025.” You can hear it on air all this week and read it online. The longest government shutdown in history dragged out for ...

A lengthy federal government shutdown this fall has caused a delay in Pitt County Schools’ audit, a school official said last week. At a special-called meeting on Dec. 15, the Board of Education ...

Senate Democrats are raising the threat of another government shutdown in late January as tensions with President Trump escalate over a series of recent maneuvers by the White House that Democrats say ...

Five months ago, the story of the first session of the 119th Congress was expected to be the passage of President Donald Trump’s signature policy legislation known as the One Big Beautiful Bill. But ...

When eight Senate Democrats crossed partisan lines and voted to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history on November 9, the consensus was that they (and, perhaps privately, other ...

For Keyana Alexander, a devoted mother in Daytona Beach, life has always been about staying strong for her children: Tyler, 7; Skyler, 6; Dashaun (D.J.), 1; and baby Zuri, 2 months old. Every day ...

Congresswoman Valerie Foushee said that the reclassification of a Duke-hosted ROTC program as an extension unit under UNC-Chapel Hill would put NCCU cadets at a disadvantage of accessing necessary ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago budget clock keeps ticking, but it appears the mayor and a group of 26 alders who have offered an alternative budget are no closer to a compromise than they were last week ...

GENEVA, Ill. — A local congressman has made good on his promise to donate money he earned during the government shutdown to an Illinois food bank. Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) donated the salary he ...

ATLANTA — A very popular Publix is surprisingly closing its doors. Store officials announced that the Publix Shallowford Exchange location at 2562 Shallowford Road in Chamblee will be closing two days ...

With the government shutdown over, for now, it’s time to think about how you can financially prepare for the next time your pay and benefits might be affected. Having a plan can make a pay or benefits ...