With pressure on spending, the Fair Funding Review is set to overhaul how councils access government funding based on need – but could some local authorities end up worse off? Stephen Delahunty delves ...

Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, marks the end of the Days of Awe, a 10-day period of introspection and repentance (teshuvah) that begins with Rosh Hashanah. The holiday is considered ...

Income tax cuts have featured in every budget in recent years, with tax credits increased, USC changes and the rate at which taxpayers enter the higher 40 per cent rate rising. These have been ...

Federal agencies have begun furloughing nonessential employees and suspending select operations. Essential services like air traffic control, Social Security and military duties continue without pay.

Correction: This story was updated at 9:02 a.m. Oct. 2 to correct U.S. Sen. Jim Risch’s statement provided to the Idaho Capital Sun. After members of Congress failed to approve a funding bill late ...

Gold prices are surging once again, and this time, they are being spurred on by a constitutional gridlock that has caused the US government to shut down. Republicans in the Senate had been pushing to ...

The FCC announced that it suspended operations at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday after Congress failed to reach an agreement on funding the federal government. The banner atop the FCC website, as of Oct. 1.

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The federal government shut down after midnight Wednesday as Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Senate failed to come to terms on budget negotiations, with both sides blaming each other. Amid the ...

The federal government shut down at midnight on Oct. 1 as President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats blamed each other for failing to reach an agreement over funding the government. During a ...

Sept 30 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump, who has long argued that the U.S. pays more than it should for prescription medicines, on Tuesday said Pfizer (PFE.N), opens new tab had agreed to cut ...