More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

Did you know a home on one side of State Line Road can carry a wildly different tax bill than an identical house two blocks away?

The Department of Homeland Security has been ensnared by a partial government shutdown as Congress did not act to fund the agency by the end of February 13. But nearly all DHS workers will remain on ...

Large swaths of the Department of Homeland Security are set to shut down Saturday after Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked two funding bills because the legislation did not include new restrictions ...

The House passed a bill to end the partial government shutdown Tuesday afternoon, cleared by a bipartisan vote under the insistence of President Donald Trump. The measure funds most of the federal ...

The House voted Tuesday to end a nearly four-day partial government shutdown, approving spending through September for previously shuttered departments and providing 10 more days of funding for the ...

Federal agencies are set to reopen after the House on Tuesday approved a spending package funding those forced to close their doors over the weekend, ending the shutdown less than four days after it ...

A partial shutdown affecting much of the federal government began Saturday, but it is unlikely to last long. The shutdown is hitting huge parts of the government, including the Pentagon, the ...

The partial shutdown of the U.S. federal government is likely to continue into this week as Democrats and Republicans continue clashing on a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Behind the president’s consequential first year back in office is a strategic decision to choose loyal aides and keep Congress on his side. As part of our video series on Trump’s second term, The Wall ...

Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington ...