Happy Thursday! Here's what we're watching while waiting to see if the New York Knicks can extend their season. After a U.S. federal court on Wednesday evening rejected a key part of President ...

Complaining that negotiations are “going nowhere,” President Donald Trump threatened to ramp up his trade war with Europe late last week, saying on Friday that he is “recommending a straight ...

Defying concerns about tariff-driven price increases, the 12-month inflation rate fell to 2.3% in April, the Labor Department announced Tuesday. The results were better than expected by a tenth of ...

Habemus papam! We have a new pope - and for the first time, he is American. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old who grew up in the Chicago area, was elected Thursday and took the name ...

In the massive reconciliation bill still working its way through the House, Republican lawmakers have included $25 billion in funding for a military project known as the “Golden Dome,” a ...

Testifying before Congress Wednesday about President Donald Trump's 2026 budget request, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended the mass firings occurring at the health ...

House Republicans cleared a big hurdle Sunday night as they work to pass their massive 1,116-page package of tax cuts and other GOP priorities. The House Budget Committee, which had failed to ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told lawmakers Tuesday that the U.S. could announce new trade deals with leading trade partners as soon as this week, though talks with China have yet to get off ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday that the debt limit may prevent the federal government from meeting all its obligations starting at some point in August. The current debt limit is $36 ...

Happy Monday. This will be another big week for Republicans as they try to enact the Trump domestic agenda. Here's the latest. House Republicans cleared a big hurdle Sunday night as they work to ...

Lots of big news on this Friday. Fiscal hawks handed President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson an embarrassing setback, and the fiscal analysts at Moody's dealt U.S. debt an ...