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Puerto Rico’s governor announced Monday that he is privatizing the island’s government-owned power company following decades of mismanagement, corruption and blackouts.

The Senate on Monday afternoon voted to re-open the government, clearing the way for the House to approve a stopgap measure and end the three-day government shutdown.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has three words for the women who sparked the #MeToo movement: “It’s about time.”

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the state's congressional map Monday, granting a major victory to Democrats who charged that the 18 districts were unconstitutionally gerrymandered to benefit Republicans.

Lawmakers are pressing for answers after revelations that the FBI “failed to preserve” five months of texts between two bureau officials under fire for exchanging anti-Trump messages during the 2016 election.

The federal funds for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) expired at the end of September, and a permanent solution has not been passed.

President Trump announced late last year that the U.S. will formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel – and it looks like the new U.S. embassy will be ready ahead of schedule.

The Senate on Monday voted 81-18 to break a Democratic filibuster on a stalled government spending bill, clearing the way for Congress to approve the stopgap measure and end the three-day government shutdown.

Vice President Mike Pence is dismissing the allegation that President Trump had a past sexual affair with a porn star named Stormy Daniels by calling it “baseless.”

As the federal government remains shuttered, here’s a look at what’s open and closed.

The government has now shut down 19 times since Congress introduced the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act in 1976.

The Trump White House and Capitol Hill Republicans cranked up the pressure Monday on Democrats to abandon their immediate demands for immigration measures and vote in support of a temporary spending bill to end a government shutdown now in its third day.

Monday marks the start of another work week for many Americans, but hundreds of thousands of government employees have now been furloughed as the government shutdown enters its third day -- and its first weekday.

Vice President Pence told Israel's Knesset on Monday that the U.S. Embassy will open in Jerusalem next year, ahead of schedule.

Alabama Sen. Doug Jones is co-sponsoring an initiative that would ensure military service members receive their pay during the federal government shutdown that began on Friday.

The relationship between President Donald Trump and top Democrats may be “deteriorating” as the two parties inched closer but ultimately fell short on an agreement that would have reopened the federal government before Monday.

Calling the Trump administration’s tax reform plan a “middle-class tax increase,” two California lawmakers proposed a bill that would force some businesses to fork over half of their savings to the state.

The Senate adjourned Sunday without reaching an agreement to end the government shutdown as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called for both parties to "step back from the brink."

The Senate's No. 2 Republican said Sunday that the government shutdown was likely to extend into Monday as congressional Democrats and Republicans blamed each other for and urged each other to end the political stalemate.