The House is set to vote Friday on a Republican measure to keep the government funded until Nov. 21, with GOP leaders ignoring pleas from Democrats to negotiate on a plan to avert a shutdown.

Republicans who control the U.S. Congress will try on Friday to pass a stopgap funding bill to avert a government shutdown that would otherwise begin October 1, over the objections of Democrats who a...

But many Democrats expressed their reservations about honoring Kirk, given his past comments about race, LGBTQ+ people and Black women.