Happy Thursday! Lots of history was made on this date: In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president; in 1956, Dwight Eisenhower won a second term in office; in 1984, Ronald Reagan won 49 states en ...

It's Election Day! Voters are having their say in closely watched contests in New York City, California, New Jersey and Virginia. And the government shutdown is about the become the longest ever. Here ...

With the U.S. food stamp program facing a November 1 funding crunch that could affect millions of Americans, a federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration must use billions of dollars in ...

President Trump late Thursday night called on Republicans in the Senate to use the “nuclear option” of scrapping the filibuster to pass the funding bill that would end the shutdown with a simple ...

Concluding his trip to Asia with a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, President Donald Trump said Thursday he will reduce tariffs on Chinese goods by 10 percentage points in recognition of ...

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 ...

Good evening. It's Day 24 of the government shutdown, and hundreds of thousands of federal workers missed their first full paychecks today while Congress was out. Speaker Mike Johnson announced that ...

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 ...

Health insurance premiums will likely skyrocket next year, despite the Obama administration’s consistent assurance that consumers will not experience sticker shock under the president’s health care ...

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 ...

We hear a lot about government debt, but what about government assets? Jill Mislinski of Advisor Perspectives looked at the Federal Reserve's financial accounts data and found that student loans make ...

Standing behind a podium in the Rose Garden, President Bill Clinton delivered a bold prediction 20 years ago. “Well ahead of the most ambitious schedule, America has balanced the budget,” he declared.