WASHINGTON -- A partial government shutdown enters its fifth day, with Congress convening for a session that promises no progress in breaking the impasse but will at least offer back pay to furloughed federal workers.The GOP House is scheduled Saturday to vote on legislation backed by the White ...

BOSTON -- With no end in sight to the federal government shutdown, Republican governors eyeing the 2016 presidential race are pitching themselves as can-do politicians and highlighting records of achievement.Although unstated, their goal is clear - draw a contrast with their prospective ...

WASHINGTON -- Taking out a mortgage. Getting married in a park. Going for a fall foliage drive. Cashing a check.Who knew that so many random activities of daily life could be imperiled by a shutdown of the federal government?Americans are finding that "the government" entails a lot more than ...

What does a terrorist really look like?A day after Rolling Stone magazine set off a wildfire of reaction with a glamorous-looking cover photo of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a Massachusetts police photographer has offered another image. And another point of view.In one of ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — That was no burrito.Three people who ordered food at a Taco Bell drive-thru in western Michigan got something more valuable: $3,600 in cash.A Taco Bell employee mistakenly passed the cash to the trio instead of their food Saturday. The money was returned a short time ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place.A combination of government austerity and the ballooning cost of battling the ruinous fires has ...