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The program was first authorized for South Sudanese nationals in 2011. The Department of Homeland Security said that "renewed peace in South Sudan" and "improved diplomatic relations" justified the move.

Tuesday's special election was forced by a court-ordered redistricting to offer Black voters a chance for more representation in the State Capital.

President Trump's declaration that the closure had hurt his party on Tuesday appeared to have stiffened Democrats' resolve and put at least a temporary damper on talks to end the crisis.

The flashpoint was the Justice Department's failure to turn over seized communications from a confidant of Mr. Comey's, Daniel C. Richman, a law professor at Columbia University.

American forces are unlikely to be able to end a decades-long insurgency in Africa's most populous country, despite President Trump's order, officials said.

First, Texas redistricted. Other states followed, and now California. Some legal experts say it's a crisis: "The wheels are coming off the car right now."

The agency had been planning to eliminate more than 2,000 positions before the lapse in federal funding, but a federal judge blocked the move.

Dick Cheney was once the face of hard-line conservatism. Then hard-line conservatism changed.

Millions of low-income Americans will see staggering cuts and delays to their food stamps this month due to the government shutdown. Tony Romm, an economic policy reporter at The New York Times, walks us through the last several weeks of chaos around ...

Democrats harnessed worries about the cost of living, with polls showing that Republicans' longtime advantage on the economy has evaporated.