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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some Americans who get their health insurance under the Affordable Care Act are beginning to learn about the higher prices they will be asked to pay in 2026 if the pandemic-era subsidies are allowed ...

The tariffs imposed by President Trump will cost businesses about $1.2 trillion this year, with most of the cost passed to consumers in the form of higher prices, according to a new report from S&P ...

Thursday’s not-so-sweet Day 16 of the government shutdown saw senators head home for the weekend after a stopgap Republican funding bill again fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance. It was the ...

Good evening. The Senate has adjourned until Monday, capping an entirely unproductive week, at least when it comes to reopening the government, which will now be shut down for at least 20 days and ...

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought said Wednesday that more than 10,000 federal workers could be fired during the government shutdown. “We want to be very aggressive where we can ...