House Republicans are moving ahead with a plan to avoid a Saturday U.S. government shutdown by passing a two-week stopgap...
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U.S. financial regulators discussed the federal debt ceiling and the effect of the government shutdown on market monitoring during a...
Federal regulators are urging U.S. coal companies to refocus on health and safety regulations after three fatalities in three days....
The partial shutdown of the U.S. government has sidelined thousands of inspectors who monitor everything from air and water pollution...
Despite the partial government shutdown, Americans have a full team of scientists tracking every possibility for an earthquake-triggered tsunami. The...
Even before the cancellation of the latest round of EU-U.S. talks, negotiations to create the world’s largest free-trade deal were...

Fewer than half of the inspectors with the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration are working during the continuing federal...

U.S. Justice Department lawyers from New York to San Francisco are asking judges to delay civil cases as the government...
U.S. oversight of financial markets and institutions will operate largely as usual in the event of a government shutdown because...
In a rejection of congressional Republicans’ strategy, Americans overwhelmingly oppose undermining President Barack Obama’s health-care law by shutting down the...