The Kremlin said on Wednesday it would review details from Washington about a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine ...

For now, Australia’s democracy has Peter Dutton as the main voice of opposition. America’s system allows for no such powerful ...

After meeting with his conference, the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said "Republicans do not have the votes" to ...

The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending measure to pass ahead of a March 14 midnight deadline.

The House developed a six-month bill that would continue funding the government and raise the debt ceiling, while making drastic cuts, but some senators aren't fans of the legislation. And they're ...

The House passed a measure to keep the government funded, but the shutdown threat is still present as the bill moves to the ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said today that Democrats have the votes to block the House-passed GOP spending bill and called on Republicans to cut a deal to avert a shutdown Friday night.

Democrats are stuck between a rock and a hard place as they must choose between shutting down the government or folding to ...

Chuck Schumer implied Senate Democrats won't offer enough votes to pass the GOP spending bill, but key Senators are still wavering.

District leaders say that a proposed cut to the city budget, part of a plan to avert a federal government shutdown, is unfair ...

They keep saying, ‘nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine,’ but they do everything about Russia without Russia,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told pro-Kremlin US bloggers.

Senate Democrats are split on backing a bill to avoid a government shutdown. New today: The GOP needs eight Democratic ...