Unlike federal employees, contract workers typically don’t receive backpay when the government reopens after a shutdown. People in low-wage service jobs — janitors, security guards and cafeteria ...

There’s a well-founded bit of conventional wisdom that government shutdowns never really work for the side making demands, according to CNN’s Aaron Blake. But there’s growing evidence that the current ...

Today on CNN 10, we get an update out of Syria as a new government takes shape after the overthrow of an autocratic regime. We also take a look at groundbreaking new findings from asteroid samples ...

The federal government shut down at midnight after a deadlocked Congress failed to reach a deal on funding. Republicans and ...