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 ...

President Trump, back from the Middle East, met at the White House Tuesday with Argentine President Javier Milei. The meeting comes after the Trump administration agreed to provide Argentina with a ...

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 ...

A new analysis of the Republican megabill currently under consideration in the Senate finds that it could be much less costly than previously estimated — as long as you’re willing to ignore the cost ...

Time magazine today published a wide-ranging, news-making and sometimes head-scratching interview it conducted this week with President Donald Trump to mark his first 100 days in office. Trump spent ...

Happy Wednesday! On this date in 1635, the Boston Latin School was established, becoming the first public school in what would become the United States. Here's what's happening today. President Donald ...

The Republican-led House on Friday approved another 2024 appropriations bill, passing legislation that would slash the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget by nearly 40%. The funding bill covering ...

There are officially 10.1 million unemployed people in the U.S. right now, according to the Labor Department’s latest monthly jobs report, but some economists think the true number is considerably ...