Measure passed with 60 “yes” votes to 40 “no” votes. Vote Total Democrats Dem. Republicans Rep. Independents Ind. Bar chart of total votes 60 7 52...
Flight cancellations on Friday Circles are sized by the number of canceled flights. Lines are the routes of flights that were canceled. Note: International routes and...
The government shutdown, now the longest on record, is growing increasingly painful as more Americans start to feel its effects. First, more than 600,000 federal workers...
Two weeks into the government shutdown, the Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion that had been reserved for more than 200 projects primarily...
Almost all the employees of the Wilson Center, a prominent nonpartisan foreign policy think tank in Washington, were placed on leave on Thursday and blocked from...
President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that directs the federal Department of Education to come up with a plan for its own demise. Only...
All week, residents of Washington, D.C., watched the shutdown debate in Congress with anxiety and anger, as one section of the continuing resolution keeping the government...
Until 2020, few Americans needed to think about how viruses spread or how the human immune system works. The pandemic offered a painful crash course. Sometimes,...
Over the course of 20 days in March 2020, 55 million American children stopped going to school as Covid-19 swept the United States. What was impossible...
When the pandemic upended our lives, it gave researchers a rare chance to learn more about who we are and how we live. The simultaneous changes...
