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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

House Republican leaders had hoped to make significant progress this week resolving lingering internal differences on key elements of their massive budget reconciliation package — plans for ...

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 ...

The U.S. and China have agreed to sharply reduce their aggressive tariffs for 90 days as they seek ways to defuse the burgeoning trade war sparked by President Donald Trump. Following negotiations ...