Expectations for a U.S. government shutdown spiked over the weekend, with betters now placing a 78% chance of that happening by Jan. 31, according to activity on the prediction site Polymarket.

Democratic senators are vowing to oppose a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security following the shooting death of a 37-year-old Minnesota man, a stand that increases the prospect of a pa...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, in a social media post Saturday night, hours after the shooting, said that what is happening in Minnesota is “appalling” and that Democrats “will not provide th...