A beloved store on the UK high street has announced it is closing down after nearly a century of trade. Whiteheads, a cycle shop which has been trading since before World War Two is holding a huge ...

The government shutdown is barreling towards November 1, when funding begins to lapse on some key government benefit programs. And both parties are watching key off-year races happening next week.

We've been hearing about the shutdown from Democrats and Republicans on the program. And today, it's Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, who represents a lot of federal employees. Senator ...

Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland introduced a bill that would have paid all federal workers. It didn't pass. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Van Hollen about the stalemate in Congress. We've ...

The latest in an intermittent series looking back at groundbreaking, newsmaking, appalling and amusing events in government history. The Federal Trade Commission, like other federal agencies, posted a ...

An issue with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the ubiquitous internet hosting service, took down many of the world's most popular online games in the early hours of Monday morning. Fortnite, Roblox, and ...

Multiple websites went down Monday morning due to an Amazon Web Services outage, AWS confirmed. “We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS ...

What kind of a shutdown is this, anyway? Congress has deadlocked over the terms of funding the government, so (in theory, at least) there is a government shutdown in which all federal operations are ...

A father's lawsuit against the online gaming platform Roblox will remain in the public eye after a judge denied the company's ...

Stop the Suffering’s Bid Your Bark Out raised funds to rescue animals from high-kill shelters and place them in loving homes.

Eight Democratic senators voted with Republicans to end a filibuster that had blocked funding legislation. But that's just ...