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Because of the partial government shutdown, a great number of federal workers are furloughed or working without pay. President Trump has ordered a freeze in 2019 federal employee salary rates.

A new day care facility is opening Jan. 2 for employees in the House of Representatives which will reduce the wait list for childcare from three years down to one.

President Trump welcomed the new year with a promise of a further fight with the Democrats, who have a plan to re-open the government that does not include funding for his border wall.

The U.S. Strategic Command faced a backlash after it tweeted about the Times Square ball drop, adding that "if needed" it would "drop something much, much bigger."

Torrential rain caused tons of mud to crash into a village on Indonesia's main island during New Year's Eve celebrations on Monday. Twenty people are still missing.

On New Year's Eve, a man with a knife was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after three people were stabbed at a busy railway station in Manchester, England.

The first images of the object, just a few pixels wide, arrived Tuesday morning. Higher-resolution photographs will be sent back to Earth in the coming weeks.

Bolsonaro's path to the presidency was nearly cut short in September when he was stabbed while on the campaign trail, but he continued to rally supporters from his hospital bed.

As long as humans have imbibed alcohol, they've had hangovers. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall about his book, Hungover: The Morning After and One Man's Quest for the Cure.

A federal database of shell casings was expanded to over 200 local law enforcement agencies this year to let police use it in investigations that match casings with guns.