In 2025, the full retirement age will increase to 66 years and 10 months, up from 66 years and 8 months. Social Security’s full retirement age refers to when workers can start claiming their full ...

Chip Roy, R-Texas, believes President-elect Donald Trump does not want to cut from Social Security and other essential benefits on which Americans rely. Lawmakers, he said, have alternative strategies ...

In 2025, the annual cost-of-living adjustment will be 2.5% percent. To fill in all the blanks for you and see how old you’ll ...

It’s up to each federal agency to determine how it handles a shutdown, but there would be disruptions in many services.

It feels like 2013 again. Back then, a beleaguered Republican speaker of the House was forced into a government shutdown by ...

The Senate passed the bill in a 73-23 vote, and the House passed the legislation in a 327-75 vote earlier this month. The ...

A debate over the debt ceiling is at the center of a dispute over funding that is pushing Washington to the brink of a ...

The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to advance a bill to boost Social Security benefits for more than 2 million ...

A huge criminal investigation is under way following accusations that fraud and substandard care have resulted in the deaths of several babies. Kaya Genc reports from Istanbul.

With a looming Friday deadline, lawmakers are working last minute to dodge a shutdown and keep government operations running ...

If Congress cannot come together to approve a spending plan going into 2025, the government could face a widespread shutdown.