On Oct. 6, First Parish Church was packed for Jill Lepore’s talk on her new book, “We the People: A History of the U.S.
This is officially the second-longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The federal government shut down as of 12:01 a.m. Oct. 1. At its start, up to 750,000 federal workers could have been ...
The ongoing federal government shutdown is the second-longest in U.S. history. On Oct. 21, the 2025 shutdown surpassed the 21-day closure under President Bill Clinton, which ended in 1996. The ...