Federal prosecutors are ending their controversial criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell related to construction cost overruns at the central bank’s headquarters. The move ...

The Supreme Court today delivered another in a series of blows to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In a 6-3 decision, the court's conservatives ruled that a redrawn Louisiana congressional map that added a ...

Last September, President Trump ordered the creation of a new “Gold Card” visa program to allow wealthy foreigners to gain permanent residence in the United States after making a $1 million ...

The Trump administration has redirected $1.25 billion from the State Department to President Trump’s Board of Peace, according to a report in Semafor Thursday. The money was intended to fund disaster ...

The U.S. economy grew at a surprisingly robust annualized pace of 4.3% in the third quarter of 2025, the Commerce Department announced Tuesday in a report that had been delayed by the government ...

The Pentagon hasn’t said how much the war with Iran is costing, but a new analysis from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bipartisan think tank, estimates that the first 100 hours ...

To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves. Our scoring system is ...

Friday brought some grim economic news, as the government reported that inflation saw the largest one-month jump since the pandemic and reached its highest level since May 2024, thanks largely to the ...

A new analysis of the Republican megabill currently under consideration in the Senate finds that it could be much less costly than previously estimated — as long as you’re willing to ignore the cost ...

The Pentagon told the White House last month that it wants more than $200 billion in supplemental funding to help pay for the war with Iran and related defense needs, but the Trump administration is ...

It looks like the shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security will continue at least until next week, and probably longer. Early Thursday morning, the Senate sent its bipartisan DHS funding bill ...

Opinions about tax policy are divided in the U.S. along fairly predictable partisan lines, with Republicans typically expressing preferences for lower taxes compared to Democrats, but how do those ...