Employee furloughs and potential layoffs would halt some government activities. Other functions — like NASA’s space missions, ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Amilcar has 10 years of FinTech, blockchain, ...

Shutdowns cause economic disruption. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the 2018-2019 shutdown reduced GDP by $11 billion in all, including $3 billion that will never be recovered. The ...

Why is the first legally binding emission-cut target for four sectors important for your UPSC exam? What significance do ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

About 750,000 federal workers will be furloughed, and agencies will reduce services in a federal government shutdown.

The U.S. government shut down early Wednesday morning after Congress failed to pass a funding bill. Here’s what it means for ...

There have been 21 shutdowns since 1977, with an average of eight days each. The longest government shutdown was 35 days during Trump's first term, from Dec. 22, 2018 to Jan. 25, 2019. The president ...

The longest-ever government shutdown took place in 2018. This time, many agencies are preparing the same way, but the ...

Hamas is an Islamist militant movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip for nearly two decades. It violently rejects the existence of Israel, which it claims is occupying Palestine. In October 2023, ...