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Wall Street paid to put the Tea Party in Congress, but it looks like now they'd like to return it. Read More

The candidates tried to paint each other as coming from the extreme of their own party in their first debate, just 12 days before the New Jersey Senate special election. Read More

"I've heard from foreign leaders and from foreign ambassadors that this really undermines our ability to be the world's model of democracy," Sen. Chris Coons said. Read More

"It's a benefit that's already hard to get. It's only going to those who need it most, and so when you see that it's affected by the shutdown, it breaks your heart," said Brian Simpson, spokesperson for the Association of Arizona Food Banks. Read More

Sen. Ted Cruz fused Obamacare to this year's budget debate. Now he says it's not his fault the fight brought on a shutdown. Read More

Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee explains Republicans' 'Grand Bargain' effort to roll a government spending bill into negotiations on the debt ceiling. Read More

What is your favorite Instagram photo that you have taken? Be sure to let us know and help Instagram celebrate turning 3! Read More

President Obama picked up the lunch tab at a local sandwich shop, just one day after an unarmed woman was shot and killed by law enforcement officers for attempting to ram her car through the White House gates. Read More

Republicans are floating ideas of wrapping the shutdown and the debt ceiling into a single debate. "That's absurd on its face," said House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer. Read More

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett believes gay marriage is inappropriate--as in, just like brother-sister incest. Read More

House Speaker John Boehner and the GOP leadership are expected to speak to media around 11 a.m. EST following a closed meeting on the government shutdown. Read More

"If the bond market thought that bonds weren’t going to get paid, they would be selling them. And they’re not!" CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera said on Morning Joe. Read More

Scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. ET: The U.S. Senate reconvenes in the wake of a federal government shutdown after a deeply divided Congress failed to agree on a short-term funding measure. Read More

Scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. ET: House lawmakers attempt to strike a deal with the Senate following the federal government shutdown Tuesday morning. Read More

House Speaker John Boehner must work with the fellow members of the Republican party who are willing to compromise with him during the government shutdown. Read More

Republicans Sen. Rand Paul and Sen. Mitch McConnell, caught on a hot microphone, boiled the entire shutdown battle to talking points and suggested that if they just stay on message, they’d “win.” Read More

The 5 year old, who was brought to the United States as a baby, had quickly learned English and was teaching the language to her mother. Read More

Sixty percent of American Catholics said they support same-sex marriage, with an overall attitude in agreement with the Pope of changing the religious establishment's focus. Read More

North Carolina Republican Rep. George Holding caught a bit of shut-eye Thursday—while at the helm of the House of Representatives. Read More

Senate Chaplain Barry Black has been using his position to discourage lawmakers directly from allowing a lapse in the federal budget. Read More