The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point Wednesday, easing monetary policy for the second time this year. The cut, which was widely expected, reduces the ...

President Trump said Thursday night that he is abruptly ending trade talks with Canada because of a video advertisement, paid for by the province of Ontario, that shows former President Ronald Reagan ...

Happy Monday and happy Diwali to those celebrating! President Donald Trump is now nine months into his second term, and the government shutdown will be three weeks old tomorrow. We've got your evening ...

Happy Thursday! On this date in 2001, Apple released its iPod music player. The company reportedly sold some 450 million of the devices before discontinuing the product line in 2022. Unfortunately, ...

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not receiving paychecks due to the government shutdown, but the White House has promised to pay some favored categories of employees such as servicemembers ...

The ongoing government shutdown is now the third-longest in modern U.S. history, topped only by a 35-day funding lapse in late 2018 and early 2019 and a 21-day fight in 1995 — and this shutdown, now ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday that Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano will also serve in a newly created role as chief executive officer of the Internal Revenue Service.

On Day 10 of the government shutdown, White House budget director Russell Vought announced that the mass firings of federal workers have begun, dramatically escalating the pain of the political ...

President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that some of the hundreds of thousands of federal workers currently furloughed due to the shutdown may not receive back pay when the government reopens. Asked ...

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the U.S. government’s budget deficit for fiscal year 2025 totaled $1.8 trillion, just $8 billion less than the shortfall for the prior year. If not for ...

Good evening. As the government shutdown stretched into a seventh day, the Trump administration upped the stakes in the showdown by threatening not to provide back pay for furloughed federal workers.

Good evening. President Trump today met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and expressed some hesitation about providing Kyiv with Tomahawk missiles that would allow it to strike deep into ...