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HUMBOLDT Contaminated water spilled from the scene of an early morning fire Wednesday at Mid-West Fertilizer in Iola has prompted Humboldt to suspend operations at the citys water plant. The city remained…
WASHINGTON Congress plans to extend government funding through Dec. 20, averting the risk of a shutdown next week but setting up a potential spending fight amid likely impeachment votes before the end of the year,…
WASHINGTON Congress could navigate a shutdown and a presidential impeachment inquiry if lawmakers and the Trump administration cant reach an agreement on government funding during the next three weeks. The two events havent overlapped…
WASHINGTON (AP) Congress is set to resolve its clattering brawl with President Donald Trump in uncommonly bipartisan fashion as lawmakers prepare to pass a border security compromise providing a mere sliver of the billions…
WASHINGTON (AP) Under mounting pressure from his own party, President Donald Trump appears to be grudgingly leaning toward accepting an agreement that would head off a threatened second government shutdown but provide just a…
Nearly two weeks after the end of the longest government shutdown in U.S history, many federal workers still have not received their back pay or have only gotten a fraction of what they are owed…
WASHINGTON (AP) The White House says President Donald Trump will call for optimism and unity in his State of the Union address, using the moment to attempt a reset after two years of bitter…
LOS ANGELES In Death Valley, piles of human feces and hunks of what rangers call toilet paper flowers were left scattered around the desert. At Joshua Tree, officials found about 24 miles of unauthorized…
At a minimum, the recent government shutdown cost the U.S. government an estimated $3 billion, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. That figure represents the loss of economic activity from the 800,000 furloughed employees…
WASHINGTON The government may be reopening, but the consequences of the longest federal shutdown in U.S. history are likely to linger for national parks, forests, the federal workforce and cutting-edge scientific research. Some may…
