Consumer advocate Lindsay Owen’s new book, Gouged, traces how corporations use software—from ever-changing prices to opaque algorithms—to squeeze every penny from you.

Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, and Brazil’s veteran President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face off on Oct. 25 in a runoff for the top job of Latin America’s powerhouse economy.

When Stacy Cox, a self-employed photographer in Kanab, Utah, dropped her Obamacare health insurance plan this year, routine preventive care became a financial dilemma. Now she finds herself weighing $...

Prosecutors have questioned potential witnesses about his longtime accountant and lawyer. Both of them have denied wrongdoing.

Police evacuated homes Sunday near an air base in England used by the U.S. and arrested several men over suspected explosives offenses.

News organizations CNN, MS NOW and Politico are suing the Trump administration over the banning of their reporters from the White House on Friday. Their credentials were confiscated or deactivated whe...

The ruling could revive grants awarded to states, cities and nonprofits for low-income solar projects.

The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...

Nearly 45 million acres of public forests are under threat, if the U.S. Department of Agriculture gets its way. The federal agency houses the U.S. Forest Service, and its Secretary is trying to re...

“Whose side do we wanna be on?” backer of GOP Senate candidate asked, “Not the United States of America, necessarily.”

For decades, Roy Cohn operated at the center of American power, from his work with Sen. Joseph McCarthy to his role as a lawyer, political fixer and mentor to a young Donald Trump. Biographer Kai Bird...

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld an order limiting federal immigration enforcement at eight houses of worship affiliated with three faith groups, saying religious activities at the sites could b...

GEO Group made the donation weeks after securing two five-year immigration detention-center contracts expected to genera

U.S. stocks fell on Thursday as Treasury yields reversed course from the decline seen in the prior trading day.

The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.

As sailors endure a record-setting deployment marked by reports of food shortages, exhaustion and dire conditions, Trump dismissed their families’ concerns before heading to his private club.

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have forcibly disappeared six staff members of the nongovernmental group Women and Children Legal Research Foundation (WCLRF) for nearly a month, Human Rights Watch ...

A policy agenda for building a just, inclusive multiracial democracy and economy where everyone has the power to shape the rules that govern their lives.

Overview On June 8, 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke before Congress and outlined his reasoning for the national program of social insurance:  Fear and worry based on unknown danger contrib...

Twenty five states sued the Trump administration, arguing its latest global tariffs unlawfully replace duties already struck down by courts.

Detroit tenants organize against RealToken, a crypto-backed landlord accused of neglect, mass disrepair, and illegal evictions amid the city’s housing crisis.

Watch how RealToken went from attracting thousands of global investors to liquidating its $140 million portfolio.

The majority of immigration officers who faced charges were accused of sex offenses or crimes against children.