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 war with Iran has cost an estimated $25 billion since it began two months ago, a top Pentagon official told lawmakers today at a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee — a session that also ...

The price of gasoline has surged again amid the ongoing war with Iran, hitting an average of $4.18 a gallon on Tuesday, according to AAA. Analysts are blaming an impasse in peace talks between Iran ...

Happy Friday and a happy 95th birthday to the Empire State Building, which was completed in just 410 days and held the crown as the world's tallest building for four decades. On this International ...

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 ...

Nearly two years ago an extreme offshoot of al-Qaeda proclaimed itself a caliphate in the Middle East. Today ISIS has been condemned worldwide for its commission of brutal crimes against humanity, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The federal government is edging closer to a partial government shutdown this weekend as Democrats and Republicans continue to differ on Department of Homeland Security funding and how best to address ...

On Wednesday, President Obama endorsed the idea of “promise zones,” a variation of the old Republican idea of enterprise zones. These new zones—located in San Antonio, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, ...

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 ...

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 ...