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 ...

Happy Thursday! On this date in 1800, President John Adams ordered the federal government - and its grand total of 125 employees - to move offices from Philadelphia to the new capital, Washington ...

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 took a couple of big steps forward on their sweeping, partisan budget bill on Wednesday via key committee votes that advanced both a package of tax cuts and some major Medicaid ...

Happy Wednesday! The conclave to elect a new pope began today at the Vatican, and the first round of voting resulted in black smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pontiff was chosen.

Happy Tuesday! It's a big day for the Republican budget bill, so let's get to it. Republicans Plow Ahead on Trump's Big Bill House Republicans are entering what they hope is the final stretch of ...

House Republicans are entering what they hope is the final stretch of their race to pass their massive bill containing much of President Trump’s agenda, including tax changes that would cost a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to the annual surge in receipts as Americans pay their tax bills, the U.S. recorded a budget surplus of $258 billion in April. The surplus was about $48 billion larger than the monthly ...

Newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visited President Donald Trump Tuesday and sought to make clear that Canada will never become the 51st U.S. state. "As you know from real estate ...