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President Barack Obama has signed a measure into law reopening the federal government and averting a potential default.
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A woman described by lawmakers and aides as a long-time House stenographer has been removed from the chamber during a vote after she began shouting.
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The 285-144 roll call Wednesday night by which the House passed and sent to President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a threatened federal default and end the 16-day partial government shutdown.
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The former Army captain who received the Medal of Honor on Tuesday has asked to return to active duty in the Army, a rare move by an officer who has lived to wear the military's highest award.
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Time growing desperately short, House Republican efforts to pass legislation collapsed Tuesday night.
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About 90 mourners have paid their respects in Brooklyn to a young woman killed by police in Washington after she tried to ram her vehicle through a White House barrier.
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Racing the clock, the Senate's Democratic and Republican leaders closed in on a deal Monday night to avoid an economy-menacing Treasury default and end the two-week partial government shutdown.
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House Republicans are offering to pass legislation to avert a default and end the 11-day partial government shutdown.
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On a day filled with both rising and falling hopes, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans struggled inconclusively Thursday to find common ground that could avert an economy-tanking default and possibly end the 10-day-old partial government shutdown that has idled 350,000 federal workers.
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House Republican leaders are considering a short-term increase in the U.S. debt limit as a possible way to break the gridlock that threatens the nation with an unprecedented default in as little as a week, officials said Wednesday night.
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Action News anchor Rick Williams sat down with President Barack Obama to discuss the government shutdown and more.
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After weeks of gridlock, House Republicans floated broad hints Tuesday they might be willing to pass short-term legislation re-opening the government and averting a default in exchange for immediate talks with the Obama administration on reducing deficits and changing the three-year-old health care law.
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Actress and animal lover Betty White is joining the collection in wax at the Madame Tussauds museum in Washington.
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The death of a New Jersey man who set himself on fire on the National Mall was not a political statement, his family says.
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The government shutdown entered its second week with ominous signs that the US was closer to the first default in the nation's history.
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A large chunk of the furloughed federal work force is headed back to the Pentagon, and those who remain at home or are working without paychecks are a step closer to getting back pay once the partial government shutdown ends.
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A rare flash of bipartisanship Saturday served as a cruel tease to those hoping Congress is moving toward reopening the government.
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A man who set himself on fire on the National Mall in the nation's capital has died of his injuries, District of Columbia police said Saturday.
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The sisters of a woman who was fatally shot in Washington after trying to ram her car through a White House barrier say she was not a criminal.
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Prospects for a swift end to the 4-day-old partial government shutdown all but vanished Friday.
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A Connecticut woman who was shot to death by police after a car chase in D.C. suffered from post-partum depression, her mother said.
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The government shutdown has shut out couples planning to get married on the National Mall in Washington.
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A woman with a 1-year-old girl led Secret Service and police on a harrowing car chase from the White House past the Capitol.
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Three days into a government shutdown, President Barack Obama pointedly blamed House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday.
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The U.S. Capitol complex was locked down after reports of shots fired outside the building.
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President Barack Obama brought congressional leaders to the White House on Wednesday.
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The roiling debate over the U.S. government shutdown is extending to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram as fed-up Americans turn to social media.
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First slowed, then stalled by political gridlock, the vast machinery of government clanged into partial shutdown mode on Tuesday.
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Thousands of workers at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst were sent home after the government shut down Tuesday.
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Independence National Historic Park is one of many local landmarks that have closed because of the government shutdown.
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Here are some of the immediate effects as parts of the government shut down Tuesday because of the budget impasse in Congress.
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OK, gridlocked politicians we're used to. But why padlock the Statue of Liberty?
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Here are some of the possible effects of the government shutdown.
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A government shutdown would have far-reaching consequences for some, but minimal impact on others.
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The United States braced for a partial government shutdown Tuesday that no one in the seat of democracy seems to want.
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President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke by telephone Friday, the first conversation between American and Iranian presidents in more than 30 years.
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