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Some of those hardest hit by the shutdown are military service academies. This weekend's big Navy/Air Force game had been in limbo...until Wednesday night! Military sources say the Midshipmen will take the field after all.
Thanks to the government shutdown, tourism in Washington, D.C. is taking a big hit. National parks and museums remain closed.
The usually bustling District of Columbia will be uniquely affected Wednesday by the first government shutdown in 17 years, with thousands of federal employees who make up the backbone of the metro area's workforce ordered not to report to work.
The museums that draw millions of visitors to the National Mall closed their doors Tuesday, memorials were barricaded and trash will go uncollected in the nation's most-visited national park due to the first government shutdown in 17 years.
President Obama plans to visit a Maryland construction company to talk about the government shutdown's effect on business.
With many furloughed federal workers in the nation's capital going home early Tuesday, MARC commuter rail is adjusting its afternoon schedule.
The first day of the shutdown and Marylanders are already feeling the pain.
A major blow to opponents of Maryland's new gun control laws: a federal judge has denied a request to delay the laws from taking effect.
Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800,000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs and services.
Take a glance at new laws taking effect in Maryland on Tuesday.
While museums on the National Mall will close for a government shutdown, many other Washington attractions plan to stay open for tourists.
Campers in national parks are to pull up stakes and leave, some veterans waiting to have disability benefits approved will have to cool their heels even longer, many routine food inspections will be suspended and panda cams will go dark at the shuttered National Zoo. Those are among the immediate effects when parts of the government shut Tuesday because of the budget impasse in Congress.
A government shutdown would have far-reaching consequences for some, but minimal impact on others.
Thousands of workers here in Maryland could be impacted by a government shutdown.
A threatened government shutdown imminent, House Republicans scaled back their demands to delay the nation's health care law Monday night as the price for essential federal funding, but President Barack Obama and Democrats rejected the proposals as quickly as they were made.
