Four Orange and Silver Line stations in Virginia will close Jan. 11-12 so crews can install trackbed lighting. Court House, Clarendon, Virginia Square and Ballston stations will be closed Saturday and Sunday for the entire day, Metro says. Free shuttle buses will replace trains between East Falls Chuch and Rosslyn stations. To accommodate shuttle schedules, the last trains on Saturday…

Last week, Congress ended the federal shutdown — at least for now — slowing the daily flow of stories about furloughed workers who cannot pay their rent, work but have no savings, or are insured but cannot afford their medication. But while those workers have returned to their jobs, NBC News reports, the problems that come with economic insecurity remain...

Fred Pickett, a mail clerk at the Environmental Protection Agency for 27 years, is one of many workers with disabilities who remain furloughed during the government shutdown, and he’s been feeling the effects.

Federal workers affected by the partial government shutdown are feeling a financial squeeze, but there are many ways citizens are working to ease the stress.

Senate leaders agreed to hold votes this week on dueling proposals to reopen shuttered federal agencies, forcing a political reckoning for senators grappling with the longest shutdown in U.S. history: Side with President Donald Trump or vote to temporarily end the shutdown and keep negotiating. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. set up the two showdown votes for Thursday, a...

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President Donald Trump’s speech about the government shutdown and the deal he offered that both Democrats and hard-line conservatives have rejected.

Just two months after a wildfire wiped out Paradise, California, officials are gearing up for this year’s fire season and fear the government shutdown could make it even more difficult than one of the worst in history. The winter months are critical for wildfire managers who use the break from the flames to prepare for the next onslaught, but much...

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at accusations that President Donald Trump worked for a foreign government and the federal government’s ongoing shutdown.

With the government mired in shutdown week four, President Donald Trump rejected a short-term legislative fix and dug in for more combat Monday, declaring he would “never ever back down.” Trump rejected a suggestion to reopen the government for several weeks while negotiations would continue with Democrats over his demands for $5.7 billion for a long, impregnable wall along the...

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President Donald Trump traveling to Texas to make the case for his border wall as the government shutdown drags on.

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President Donald Trump’s primetime address on the government shutdown that he started over his border wall.

House Democrats are using their new oversight authority to investigate the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s management of the shutdown, as questions mount about HUD’s failure to renew low-income housing contracts for more than 1,000 properties across the country, NBC News reported. “HUD knew for months about this impending deadline to renew the contracts, but for some reason they...

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at the continuing government shutdown and President Donald Trump announcing a primetime address on funding the border wall.

Chris Hayes talks to Seth Meyers about how President Donald Trump’s border wall is just a mnemonic and expresses his frustration about the ongoing shutdown.

A Trump administration official said Monday that federal income tax refunds would indeed go out despite a large part of the government being shut down. Russell T. Vought, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told reporters about the development in a briefing. “Tax refunds will go out,” Vought said.

Human feces, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other damaging behavior in fragile areas were beginning to overwhelm some of the West’s iconic national parks on Monday, as a partial government shutdown left the areas open to visitors but with little staff on duty. “It’s a free-for-all,” Dakota Snider, 24, who lives and works in Yosemite Valley, said by telephone Monday,...

The U.S. government entered a partial shutdown after Congress failed to reach agreement on a spending bill.

In a wild Oval Office confrontation, President Donald Trump heatedly threatened to shut down the U.S. government Tuesday as he and Democratic leaders bickered over funding for his promised border wall and offered a grim preview of life in Washington the next two years under divided government. Trump and House and Senate Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer squabbled...

A partial Blue Line shutdown and major delays on two other Metro lines began Saturday, prompting WMATA officials to warn riders “to only use Metrorail if you have no other option.”