Some Republicans in Congress are expressing doubts about President Donald Trump’s proposal to send $2,000 checks to most Americans from the revenues generated by his new tariffs on trading partners ...

President Trump eliminated tariffs on an array of Brazilian agricultural goods amid signs that high and rising prices in the U.S. for basic groceries such as coffee and beef have become a major ...

Good evening. Former Presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden and former Vice Presidents Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, Al Gore and Dan Quayle were among the mourners who gathered Thursday at the ...

Happy Tuesday! After a monthslong fight, the House and Senate passed a bill requiring the Justice Department to release files in the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. A 427-1 vote in the ...

Happy Tuesday! President Trump today delivered what may be the two least controversial pardons of his second term, granting clemency to a pair of turkeys named Gobble and Waddle. Trump used the ...

Not much unites the activist Left and activist Right, and not much ever has. After the near-collapse of the fiscal sector in 2008, though, populist movements on both sides found momentum in opposition ...

To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves. Our scoring system is ...

The United States established the Civil Service 142 years ago, in response to the massive corruption that followed from the previous “spoils system” in Washington DC. Prior to that, all federal ...

Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, author of a comprehensive new book, Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution, says Barack Obama was an amazing law student. During a broad ...

McDonald's just reported its first quarter financial results on April 20. The global fast food chain generated $6.54 billion during the period and delivered earnings per share of $1.23. Global ...

For many former Republican and Democratic lawmakers, the road to retirement from Congress has been paved with gold. Scores of former lawmakers with proven expertise and easy access to their one-time ...

I have no idea whether or not Mitt Romney will run for president, and if he does, if he will get the nomination. But many of the issues he ran on when he was a candidate in the last election are ...