It is the first shutdown since the longest in history -- lasting 35 days -- almost seven years ago

Congressional negotiators reaches agreement to prevent a government shutdown and finance construction of new barriers along the US-Mexico border, overcoming a late-stage hang-up over immigration enforcement issues that had threatened to scuttle the talks.

A growing number of poor, elderly and disabled people face eviction from their homes as federal housing assistance dries up under the US government shutdown, experts say.

The US government staggers into another shutdown after an outspoken fiscal conservative in the Senate singlehandedly delayed action by Congress on a stopgap funding bill wrapped up in a massive budget deal.

Congress put the US government back in business by voting to end a three-day shutdown, as President Donald Trump claimed victory in his standoff with Democrats in Washington.