Budget Control Act of 2011

WASHINGTON — The nation's cash-strapped weather-forecasting system, though partly spared from federal budget cuts known as "sequestration," is about to get pinched on the verge of a hurricane season expected to be busier than normal. Federal...

Some flights headed into LAX were delayed more than three hours Sunday night because of air traffic controller furloughs required by sequestration cuts, a federal aviation official said Monday. As part of $600 million the Federal Aviation Administration...

WASHINGTON — After a dizzying two weeks at the epicenter of an emotionally charged political moment, Sen. Pat Toomey returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday eager to resume his role as a vocal fiscal conservative critical of the Obama White House. It...

By Ben Berkowitz April 23 (Reuters) - A range of U.S. companies are warning investors that sequestration is starting to bite, but executives are still unclear how deep the wound will be. The U.S. federal government began implementing across-the-board...

“You need to identify me only as an FAA official,’’ the Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson told me on the phone Monday, explaining that was the order from headquarters in Washington on this sensitive subject. I reluctantly...

Criticism intensified Monday that the Obama administration is deliberately inconveniencing and potentially endangering the flying public by going ahead with threatened staffing reductions at airport air traffic towers and radar facilities, instead of...

Sequestration is starting to frustrate air travelers. About 400 flights were delayed Sunday because of air traffic controller furloughs, the Federal Aviation Administration said, and a few more interruptions were reported Monday, though the nation's air...

Sequestration is starting to frustrate air travelers. About 400 flights were delayed Sunday because of air traffic controller furloughs, the Federal Aviation Administration said, and a few more interruptions were reported Monday at Los Angeles...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Monday denied a request for a stay of the Federal Aviation Administration order to furlough air traffic controllers. The furloughs of 47,000 workers, including air traffic controllers,...

The operator of LAX is “very concerned” about the impact the air traffic controller furloughs will have on flight delays, a Los Angeles World Airports spokeswoman said Monday.  As part of $600 million the Federal Aviation Administration is...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.77 trillion spending blueprint that seeks to achieve an elusive "grand bargain" to tame runaway deficits by raising taxes further on the wealthy and trimming popular benefit...

Don't cut planetary science funding, members of Congress urged NASA on Friday. In a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), urged the space agency to maintain funding levels for...