The bill needed a two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives, but 38 Republicans voted against their own party's proposal.

Democrats refused to accommodate President-elect Donald Trump’s sudden demands and the quick fix cobbled together by ...

Rachel Reeves was yesterday accused of killing growth as the Bank of England warned the economy is grinding to halt in the ...

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons, which scrutinises the spending, policies and ...

Residents in the rural Cumbria (England) villages of Kirkoswald and Great Salkeld, which previously worked with local ISP ...

President-elect Donald Trump also averted a government shutdown by forcing Congress to scrap a government spending bill before Friday's deadline.

Around 35,000 civil servants in Spain demonstrate against planned privatisation of government health insurance scheme; workers and retirees continue to rally across Iran to protest unpaid wages, power ...

Mark Wild tells MPs the structure is a legal requirement, but the former chief said there is no evidence high-speed trains ...

In an epic end-of-term grilling, MPs asked Keir Starmer about defence spending, tackling pensioner poverty, the housing crisis and US president-elect Donald Trump ...

The proposed continuing resolution, championed by GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson, would have kept agencies running at current funding levels through to mid-March 2025 ...

Read about how hospices have reacted to the government's £100m investment in improving buildings, equipment and accommodation ...

Stormont ministers have agreed to send a draft budget for the next financial year out for public consultation. Ministers were ...