US Senate

The U.S. Capitol dome. (Photo credit: REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein) The U.S. Senate has approved a bipartisan compromise to end the country’s longest-ever government shutdown, which left hundreds of thousands of federal workers without pay for weeks and strained public services across the nation. The agreement, passed late Monday, follows a bitter political standoff between Republicans and Democrats over federal spending priorities and healthcare funding. The measure will temporarily fund the government […]