government shutdown

The Government shutdown has gotten a little bit ugly. On Wednesday, Republican U.S. Rep. Randy Neugebauer from Texas decided to confront a park ranger at the WWII memorial in Washington DC who was not allowing the public to enter the memorial during the shutdown.

Caoe Cod is particularly hard-hit by the federal government shutdown. With sunny weather at the start of the month, hundreds of tourists were turned away from the National Seashore yesterday. Lighthouses in Truro and Nauset are closed, and so is the Woods Hole Aquarium...

President Barack Obama is canceling two stops on his long-planned trip to Asia because of the partial government shutdown.

The Defense Department says it has temporarily suspended all sports competitions at the service academies as a result of the partial government shutdown.

New Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren let everyone know exactly how she was thinking during the Government shutdown. These are the remarks that she gave to Republicans on the eve on the Government Shutdown.

As of midnight on October 1, 2013 the United States Government officially shutdown operations. So what exactly does that mean for the regular everyday Joe?

Hundreds of thousands of federal employees will report to work this morning. Most will be sent home and no one knows when they'll be back on the job.