Washington — The House returns Wednesday for the first time since the start of the government shutdown and nearly two months after it last voted, bringing an end to the chamber's longest absence in re...

JUST IN: The House has cleared a key procedural hurdle to set up a final vote on the Senate-passed funding package to reopen the federal government.

The final Senate vote, 60-40, broke a gruelling stalemate that lasted more than six weeks as Democrats demanded that Republicans negotiate with them to extend health care tax credits that expire at th...