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The Washington, D.C., region is home to about 400,000 federal employees, plus members of the military and government contractors. In a government shutdown, they face no pay and lots of uncertainty.

Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York says he is open to compromise but wants to hold a hard line on protecting his party's priorities. And he is going to use the incoming president's words against him.

Celebrity news website TMZ operates a lot like an intelligence agency, according to a piece in The New Yorker. Mary Louise Kelly talks to Nicholas Schmidle about TMZ's reporting tactics.

The House sustained President Bush's first-ever veto of a bill to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. But backers of the bill say that the politics of the measure will favor them in the end.

Fewer Chinese tourists have been visiting Hawaii, Arizona and other population destinations in recent years. The strong dollar has made travel more expensive, just as political tensions have grown.

When President Biden announced a student loan forgiveness program last week, scammers were poised to prey on desperate borrowers. NerdWallet writer Anna Helhoski shares some red flags to watch for.

The battle for Syria appears to have reached a decisive stage. As fighting intensifies in Damascus, there's an urgent push under way to organize the rebel force. It is widely feared that the hundreds of groups fighting the regime will turn on each other in a struggle for power.

The Obama administration is trudging ahead with policies designed to protect the integrity of scientific research. But critics of the process say the policies that have been released so far don't do enough to prevent political manipulation of science.

Presidents Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron will meet in Paris Saturday for the World War I centenary. Since their meeting in 2017, their domestic popularity and alleged "bromance" have suffered.

The New York attorney general's lawsuit against the NRA is no mere "witch hunt," a Manhattan judge ruled Friday in dismissing the group's claims that the case is a political vendetta.