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 ...

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 ...

President Trump is pressing ahead in his effort to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, despite the emergence of documents calling into question his claim that Cook committed mortgage fraud and is ...

President Trump on Friday dismissed the idea of a bipartisan deal to fund the government and avert a shutdown on October 1, suggesting in a lengthy and wide-ranging morning interview seated on the ...

Good evening. More than 1,000 current and former Department of Health and Human Services employees signed a letter today saying that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is endangering the nation's health ...

The White House said late Wednesday that Dr. Susan Monarez, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been removed from her post. A White House spokesperson said Monarez ...

Happy Tuesday! President Donald Trump told CNBC today that he has narrowed down his list of potential successors to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to four candidates, including Kevin Hassett, ...

Despite intense pressure from President Trump to cut interest rates, Federal Reserve policymakers are expected to keep rates unchanged when they conclude a two-day meeting tomorrow. But Fed officials ...

Happy Monday! Politico's Brian Faler noted today that tax experts are struggling with an issue that has at times bedeviled us, too: Just how to refer to the recently passed Republican tax cut law. "In ...

The House narrowly passed a $9 billion package of DOGE spending cuts just after midnight on Friday, approving a White House request to cancel money that Congress had previously provided for foreign ...

Happy July 1, or as it's known to some here in New York, Bobby Bonilla Day. In Washington, D.C, President Donald Trump's signature policy bill squeaked through the Senate by the slimmest of margins ...