NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of federal employees working on mental health services, disease outbreaks and disaster preparedness were among those hit by the Trump administration’s mass firings over the ...

The Protect America’s Workforce Act cleared the House in a vote of 231-195. Federal unions are now urging the Senate to take up the companion legislation.

With every passing day of the government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed or working without pay face mounting financial strain. And now they are confronting new ...

Some furloughed federal employees were told to "report for duty" on Thursday. After 43 days, the longest federal government shutdown in history is history after President Donald Trump late Wednesday ...

SEVEN NEWS AT SIX STARTS RIGHT NOW. DOING WELL AS A COUNTRY. SO THE LAST THING WE WANT TO DO IS SHUT IT DOWN. BUT. A LOT OF GOOD CAN COME DOWN FROM SHUTDOWNS. IF WE CAN GET RID OF A LOT OF THINGS THAT ...

The Education Department violated its furloughed employees’ First Amendment rights when it modified their out-of-office emails to blame the ongoing government shutdown on congressional Democrats, a ...