Good evening! Who's staying up tonight to catch the scheduled 1 a.m. meeting of the House Rules Committee on the Republican budget reconciliation bill? Here's the latest. Trump Pressures House ...

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 ...

Citing large and growing budget deficits and rising interest costs, Moody’s Analytics on Friday reduced its credit rating on U.S. government debt, eliminating the last top-ranked, triple-A ...

As Republican lawmakers scramble to find ways to offset the revenue losses from their massive but still unfinished package of tax cuts, President Trump has signaled that he would support raising ...

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.

President Trump on Friday once again threatened to revoke the tax-exempt status of Harvard University. "We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!

Headed to his Florida resort on Air Force One Thursday evening, President Trump signed an executive order that seeks to end federal funding for PBS and NPR, broadcasters that rely in part on ...

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 ...

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. economy added 177,000 jobs in April and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.2%, the Labor Department announced Friday, defying worries that the labor market was beginning to crack ...

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 ...

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 ...