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Vice President Kamala Harris spoke after certifying Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election.

The House Ethics Committee released a report on Monday, following a year-long investigation into allegations against former Rep. Matt Gaetz.

The Senate rushed through final passage early Saturday of a bipartisan plan that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, adverting a government shutdown. Robert Kovacik reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Dec. 20, 2024.

If a funding deal is not reached in Congress by midnight the government will shut down. What a federal government shutdown might mean for Southern California.

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday expressed confidence there won’t be a government shutdown at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.

If the government shuts down days before Christmas, holiday travel could be hit but holiday shipping spared.

Here are five things to know about the United States Postal Service.

A new government report is pointing the finger at postal workers, calling thousands of cases of stolen mail an inside job.

California’s attorney general is working on legislation to include warning labels on social media, stirring up controversy in the process.

The shortfall was more than 8% from the previous year and the third highest on record, the Treasury Department said Friday.

The national debt is the total amount of outstanding debt that the U.S. Federal Government has accumulated. Here’s what you need to know.

Congress on Wednesday passed a temporary measure that keeps government agencies funded into December, avoiding a shutdown for now while punting final spending decisions until after the Nov. 5 election.

House Speaker Mike Johnson will move ahead with a temporary spending bill that would prevent a partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1.

Surveys show that a third of American adults can’t name the three branches of the federal government. One found that 10% of college graduates think TV’s “Judge Judy” serves on the U.S. Supreme Court.

The U.S. Postal Service is ending discounts that shipping consolidators such as UPS and DHL use to get packages to the nation’s doorsteps, in a move meant to help the Postal Service slow losses but that could see the higher costs passed on to consumers. The changes announced Wednesday affect nearly 2 billion packages each year that consolidators send through...

The U.S. Postal Service hopes to save $3 billion a year through a series of changes reflecting greater reliance on streamlined regional networks.

The Senate bogged down Friday evening on a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills, increasing the prospects that funding for some key federal agencies could lapse and initiate a partial government shutdown beginning at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.

Several state capitols received bomb threats that led to evacuations or lockdowns Wednesday morning.

Arizona and Utah will keep the iconic national parks in those states open if a federal government shutdown cuts off funding nationwide.

State and local agencies that distributed federal aid to renters facing eviction during the pandemic are now scrambling to claw back millions of dollars in overpayments.